Re: [Gimp-user] Animation VCR-style buttons for GIMP
On Monday 05 January 2009, Robert Slater wrote: I am trying to create some teaching aids using GIMP animation. I have a few GIMP animations working so far. All of the animations run in a loop without stopping. I would like the user to be able to control the frames using VCR-style buttons (PLAY, PAUSE, REWIND, STEP-by-STEP) within my animated script. Something similar to Filters-Animation- Playback would be great. Is there something I can add to my animations that would support the VCR-style buttons? I haven't worked very much with GAP (Gimp Animation Plugin), it might provide it, but I doubt that GIMP is suited well as a general viweing application. Try some other movie viewer that can also play the format of your choice. Also, I would like to post these GIMP animations on a web page. Is there anyway to allow the user to see the animation without being able to download the file? Right now, the user can right-click on the link and download the GIF file to their computer. Can I stop this from happening? Hardly. Somehow the data has to reach the other user's computer to be displayed there. And in that moment you lose control over what's done with your data. The only thing you can do is make it a bit harder for the determined and a lot less user friendly for the casual visitor of that web page. Yours, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Animation VCR-style buttons for GIMP
Hello, First I would like to say that I am new to 'the GIMP' and I really like this tool. Thanks to all who have helped develop and maintain this tool. Very cool! I am trying to create some teaching aids using GIMP animation. I have a few GIMP animations working so far. All of the animations run in a loop without stopping. I would like the user to be able to control the frames using VCR-style buttons (PLAY, PAUSE, REWIND, STEP-by-STEP) within my animated script. Something similar to Filters-Animation- Playback would be great. Is there something I can add to my animations that would support the VCR-style buttons? Also, I would like to post these GIMP animations on a web page. Is there anyway to allow the user to see the animation without being able to download the file? Right now, the user can right-click on the link and download the GIF file to their computer. Can I stop this from happening? Thanks for the help. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Animation solution!
As everyone know. A animation is various frames drawned one after other. To create a animation, the current frame and the previous frame have to looks like, however have to have a difference. To this happen you have to look the current frame and the previous frame, and then check if is changed correct and if is changed where you want. That waste a time. Because you have to toggle the visible of frames to check and check until you have certain that is correct. Well, the solution is very very simple. Is just make the previous frame 50% transparent. Then the current frame will have a shadow of the previous frame. This way you can see what is what. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation solution!
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Lap1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As everyone know. A animation is various frames drawned one after other. To create a animation, the current frame and the previous frame have to looks like, however have to have a difference. To this happen you have to look the current frame and the previous frame, and then check if is changed correct and if is changed where you want. That waste a time. Because you have to toggle the visible of frames to check and check until you have certain that is correct. Well, the solution is very very simple. Is just make the previous frame 50% transparent. Then the current frame will have a shadow of the previous frame. This way you can see what is what. Yes. This is called 'onion-skinning'. GIMP-GAP includes support for onion-skinning; If you are creating animations that require the use of onion-skinning, it's better to use the GIMP-GAP plugins; GIMP itself has only basic animation support. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] animation
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 18:15 +, norman wrote: I have a small, mushroom shaped object that I would like to display as if it were rotating. This is because the colouring and patterning changes around the object. Is this possible and, if so, please suggest where I might read up on how to do it. Norman, you have pointed in the past a lot of readers here into the direction of my podcast - allow me to point you into that direction. ;-) Episode 20 of Meet the GIMP! covers exactly this. http://meetthegimp.org/episode-020-easy-animation/ Rolf ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] animation
I have a small, mushroom shaped object that I would like to display as if it were rotating. This is because the colouring and patterning changes around the object. Is this possible and, if so, please suggest where I might read up on how to do it. Norman Silverstone ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] animation
On Sunday 27 January 2008 10:15:11 am norman wrote: I have a small, mushroom shaped object that I would like to display as if it were rotating. This is because the colouring and patterning changes around the object. Is this possible and, if so, please suggest where I might read up on how to do it. You might start with a tutorial for GIMP animation: http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Gap-For-Animated-Gif-9937-1.html -- Scott Linux user #: 246504 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation
On Monday 09 October 2006 04:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a simple animation I want to do for a website which involves fading a photo gradually (I assume by increasing opacity of a layer or decreasing opacity of layer containing photo) and replacing it with text (by increasing opacity of layer containing text?) And then this text will be a link to a web page. I have no idea how to do this. I am a total amateur looking to learn this slick little trick.I am new to Gimp but learning. Can you help me please? Andrea This mail sent through WebMail | Courtesy of Execulink ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Unless the link only shall be present as the text appears, i would simply construct a looping animated gif and use it with a href tag... There are several tutorials on how to make a animated gif via Gimp, so that part shouldn't be a big problem. I have made a banner once, (lng time ago) for a now closed web page. And thats how i did it. A plain moving gif and a tag for the link. -- /Rikard - email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob:: +46 (0)763 19 76 25 Public PGP fingerprint 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 pgptZdX8lROig.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation
I have never tried it but you might want to take a different approach: - use css to hide your image - use css to show a text link The dojo toolkit might be able to accomplish this. Go to the website http://dojotoolkit.org/ click in the menu on See in action and then on the catagorie effects. Dennis. I have a simple animation I want to do for a website which involves fading a photo gradually (I assume by increasing opacity of a layer or decreasing opacity of layer containing photo) and replacing it with text (by increasing opacity of layer containing text?) And then this text will be a link to a web page. I have no idea how to do this. I am a total amateur looking to learn this slick little trick.I am new to Gimp but learning. Can you help me please? Andrea This mail sent through WebMail | Courtesy of Execulink ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation
however there is a problem with GIF images, because even if they suport transparency they don't have an alpha channel (opacity) they only have one 100% transparent color. You can still do the fading effect; however you'll have to work with fixex background color. (I mean if the background of your site is for example white, you make it fade to white in GIMP) Other idea might be using opacity propriety of CSS3 (you decrease the opacity in a loop from 100 and when you reach 0 you'll delete the image and place the text), but not many browsers support this at the time being. Either way, it has little to do with GIMP if you do it this way. -- LEGENY Jozef ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation
On Sunday 08 October 2006 11:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a simple animation I want to do for a website which involves fading a photo gradually (I assume by increasing opacity of a layer or decreasing opacity of layer containing photo) and replacing it with text (by increasing opacity of layer containing text?) And then this text will be a link to a web page. I have no idea how to do this. I am a total amateur looking to learn this slick little trick.I am new to Gimp but learning. Can you help me please? Andrea I do not like what I will write you, for I am normally comitted to freesoftware options only. But for this case, the easiest way to achieve what you desire is to use Flash. No, the Gimp cannot create it. There are Free programs that can, I do not know then. I guess event he free Gnu Flash Player - GNASH - could handle a file that would do just that, although it is not packed with all features in flash 9. - however, most people on the web would see your final result in a proprietary plug-in - that is why I dislike it. CSS3, as others have suggested simply is not widespread, and few people would be able to see it. That said, if youcan do that with GIMP alone: You can implement most of this as an animated gif, as people had written. You just can't create the link in the end - you'd have to use Javascript to do that - or - just let the whole image be a link all the time, and just press the text inside it at the end.A small adaptation that would simplify your work and allow you to make this with an animated gif. Create an image, with your photo, the size you wnat it to be on the web. Create a new layer, with the background color you wish for the text, add yoru text, and, witht he text layer selected, combine it with the background layer bellow. Now, duplicate the layer with your photo, and use the plug-in Filters-Animation-Blend - it will create another iamge with all the intermediate layers you need. Save this one as gif and pick animation on the dialog that appears. Select your parameters, and there you go. Tip: if you wnat a certain frame to last longer than the others (let's suppose you want your aniamtion to loop, but you want the the text to be visible for 5 seconds before repeating), you put the duration of the frame in the frame title, inside parentheses - a name such as final (5000ms) (the time is in milisconds) Regards, JS -- Then, with --- - This mail sent through WebMail | Courtesy of Execulink ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Animation
I have a simple animation I want to do for a website which involves fading a photo gradually (I assume by increasing opacity of a layer or decreasing opacity of layer containing photo) and replacing it with text (by increasing opacity of layer containing text?) And then this text will be a link to a web page. I have no idea how to do this. I am a total amateur looking to learn this slick little trick.I am new to Gimp but learning. Can you help me please? Andrea This mail sent through WebMail | Courtesy of Execulink ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation question
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Ivan Sanchez wrote: Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:35:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Ivan Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gimp Questions gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: [Gimp-user] Animation question It's me. I was wondering is there a way to make the animation keep going and going no matter what you click on your tool bar. Which toolbar? I am assuming you mean the toolbar in your Web Browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, etc) When I was watching an animation I did for my friend on a forum, I clicked Stop on the tool bar and it stoped. Users need to be able to stop the animation if they want to. Some animations can be extremely annoying (advertising), difficult to read or even worse cause epileptic seizures. You can choose to have an animation run once, more than once or continuously but users can still choose to stop the animation (or close the page and look at something else instead). animation, it stoped. Is there a way that you can make it go and go no matter what? At most you can choose continuous loop but users can stop the animation, anything else could all too easily be abused. Any good web browser puts the users in control allowing them to view pages as they see fit. -- Alan ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Animation question
It's me. I was wondering is there a way to make the animation keep going and going no matter what you click on your tool bar. When I was watching an animation I did for my friend on a forum, I clicked Stop on the tool bar and it stoped. I clicked refresh and it started again. and when you click on a link that is on that same page and it opens in a different window and you click on the link, it takes you to that different page, but when you go to the window with the animation, it stoped. Is there a way that you can make it go and go no matter what? __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Sanchez wrote: It's me. I was wondering is there a way to make the animation keep going and going no matter what you click on your tool bar. When I was watching an animation I did for my friend on a forum, I clicked Stop on the tool bar and it stoped. I clicked refresh and it started again. and when you click on a link that is on that same page and it opens in a different window and you click on the link, it takes you to that different page, but when you go to the window with the animation, it stoped. Is there a way that you can make it go and go no matter what? That depends on the web browser. __ Do You Yahoo!? Heck no, Yahoo sucks. :-) - -- KevinO -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEiepkI3MJ/OwKti0RAqRMAKCXhiuQyb/JKKA59+LnoHtilsFp0gCfYX2Z ndKFS86Wt9aqnOMpEdc37to= =xcRK -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Animation question
Yes, it's me with another question. When you make an animation, how do you make it take longer to go to the next layer. It goes really fast that I can't read some words I change on it. Or how can I make it go slower. If you know the answer, please e mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation question
On Thursday 08 June 2006 01:00 am, Ivan Sanchez wrote: Yes, it's me with another question. When you make an animation, how do you make it take longer to go to the next layer. It goes really fast that I can't read some words I change on it. Or how can I make it go slower. If you know the answer, please e mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can manually specify the duration in miliseconds for each layer. Just add (ms) in the layers name. For example for a layer taht should last 3 seconds, name it (3000ms). ___ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] animation problem
Hi, I just installed gimp 2.2.10 on my new Athlon64x2 desktop running windows XP. My small gif animations will run perfectly from filters/animation/playback. All the layers have a subject image near the center of the frames, with a transparent background, with the (replace) attribute enabled. However once I point at the animation and drag it out of the window during play, as soon as the click is done, white areas within all the layers at the intersections of the images, become apparent as they are flipping, which normally are not there when the animation remains in its play window playing perfectly, without being clicked. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Adly ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Animation of text for home video editing
Hi I'm looking for a tool to make some animations. I'm editing some home videos and I want to add a title screen animation and a scrolling text at the end. But let's concentrate on the first. I have been looking at gap and as far as I see from the tutorials it seems to be a lot of work to make some simple animation. Say I want a black background and to fade a white text and then after a bit pause fade it out again. I see how I can do this manually from the tutorials, but if I want to do this many times with different texts then I imagine that this should be something a script/macro in gimp could do? However, I haven't found any and I don't know how to make scripts/macros. So I was wondering if anybody has something like this laying around? Would be nice to be able to specify the lenght of the fading in/out time and pause and the text/image to fade. If nobody have something like this it would be great with some hints as to how I can make a script like this. Is Pyhton the most suitable language to learn to make scripts? Thanks in advance! Preben ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation of text for home video editing
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:51:14AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: I'm looking for a tool to make some animations. I'm editing some home videos and I want to add a title screen animation and a scrolling text at the end. But let's concentrate on the first. I have been looking at gap and as far as I see from the tutorials it seems to be a lot of work to make some simple animation. Say I want a black background and to fade a white text and then after a bit pause fade it out again. I see how I can do this manually from the tutorials, but if I want to do this many times with different texts then I imagine that this should be something a script/macro in gimp could do? However, I haven't found any and I don't know how to make scripts/macros. So I was wondering if anybody has something like this laying around? Would be nice to be able to specify the lenght of the fading in/out time and pause and the text/image to fade. for gap to do this is not so difficult as you seem to think. you do not need to remake the text layer each time for either effect mentioned here. make one text layer and add that as a layer to your image stack with Video--Move Path. tell the dialog which image in the stack to start adding the fade-in text layer to, and which position in each images layers. there is an opacity slider so for the first frame in a fade in effect, move the slider to 0. determine the frame in which you would like the fade-in text to be completely faded in (only you know the frames per second of your animation and how long you want the effect to take), select Add Point, tell it the frame to finish the fade in with and make certain that the opacity slider shows 100. you can actually continue all in one step (if you want the text layer to display for a while and then fade out) by continuing to add points for each transition in your effect. it is much worse to write or read about it than it is to actually do this. If nobody have something like this it would be great with some hints as to how I can make a script like this. Is Pyhton the most suitable language to learn to make scripts? i use python, but that is a personal preference. it has documentation and i have friends that are willing to help me with it. perl has just as much documentation and i had friends around to help with that when i was working on updating the scripts for gimp-2.2 -- there is a pre-release of gimp-perl in ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub somewhere. and then gimps own script-fu. that works on windows and if you have SIOD friends to help with that, there is nothing wrong with this method to handle your gimp automation needs. it is a matter of opinion and resources as to which is the better language to use and underneath it all it is just gimp anyways. i have made some python scripts to make up for a few cases where i could not use gap to do what i wanted. my scripts are really minimal, gap does most things already better than can be scripted, in my experiences. for example, to script gimp to do what you want with gap, you would still probably have to have places in your dialog where you tell your script all of the same information you will need to tell gap. the one advantage that your script would have is that the dialog would appear more simple (less options for other things). gap has a little bit of a learning curve, but once you achieve this it is more a matter of ignoring all of the parts of the dialog that you don't need for the task at hand rather than learning a bunch of new things. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
