So I’ve got a GIF animated file, and want to break it up into the still picture elements. What’s a good GIF composer/decomposer, pref’ably free?
(Why, yes, he said guardedly, porn might have something to do with it.)
I do grok that some GIF files work with “differences” instead of complete images. i.e., instead of image1/image2/image3, it starts with image1, and then adds only those parts of image2 that differ from image1. So there isn’t any actual “image2” sitting there. If that’s the case, I might be out of luck.
Yes; I use Gimp for many tasks. I wish I had the time to learn it properly as I find many very simple tasks seem very difficult in Gimp. The other day, just creating a montage, I was doing “Merge Layers ; Remove Alpha Channel” after every step. :smack:
Merge Layers 1 & 2 to create Image 2; then 2 & 3 for 3; and so on. GIMP has a programming interface to facilitate such tasks, but if you figure out how to use it please let me know.
Rigamarole and septimus: I’m one of those guys who has been defeated by GIMP. I was able to install it, and draw some lines and circles… Then I had to buy a tutorial book… And then I gave up. The interface is too darn user-unfriendly.
Hercles and mistymage: Thank’ee kindly! I’ll try these and see what happens! Mil milion gracias!
Yes, GIMP does this. I use it all the time to both generate animations and break apart existing ones. The OP will need GAP as well if his version of GIMP doesn’t have it already. GAP is the GIMP Animation Package and is needed to work with animations.