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Making GIF signatures on GIMP

Making GIF signatures on GIMP:

Since this is a tutorial. It will be a big tutorial
So I'll update this periodically. ( I just partially finished one myself and it took over 3 hours )

I'm not completely the master at "making gif signatures on GIMP just yet, but I can make easy picture transitions from one picture to another that both share a background.

Step 1: Create the background

So the background is going to remain throughout the whole gif animation
So I made one myself:



No...I will not teach you how to make a picture similar to above^^^
This is a gif tutorial on gimp...

You want the background to be a Flattened Image!

Step 2: Putting the frames



After this:
You must do the following to make one frame:
1) Make sure the frame you are making looks like the picture above. ONLY HAVE THE EYES "on" On what you want the frame to have, so that means don't have the eyes "on" next to any other frames you did (see picture above)
2) Right click in the layer box ( if it is not open do this: Windows => Dockable Dialogs => Layers)
3) Merge visible layers


Good job. You have created a frame.
Now go finish up all the rest of your frames

Step 3: Letting Gimp do the rest

Here is what you do now. This is the part where you need to have all of the above (step 2 most importantly) correct.

After you have got all your frames done:

1) Right Click
2) Filters
3) Animation
4) Blend
5) Change the "Intermediate Frames" into how many frames you want (For picture translations you would want around 20 to 40 frames)
6) Click on "OK"
7) Wait...grab a pizza or something (it won't take very long)
8) A new picture well come up that looks almost exactly like your other work. Well it isn't. Time to test it out!
9) Right Click
10) Filters
11) Animation
12) Playback
13) If you are done and like what you see: Go to step 15; If you don't like what you see go to step 14
14) Go back to STEP 2: Putting the Frames. If problems occur please pm me, but include screenshots and in-depth description of your problem.
15) Right Click => filters => Animations
16) Optimize (for GIF)
17) A new box will open up with the same looking artwork that you did
18) Save AS (the new box that just opened up
19) Save your work: ie: SmashBoards.gif
20) Load it up to something like www.imageshack.us
21)....
22) profit!

Final Result:

Here is the final result (I put it up for eye candy)...(it is not finished though...need to add the rest of the brawl characters):


Don't steal!
I don't think unfinished work would look good in your sig anyways




Problems? PM me!
Please provide pics and I like in-depth descriptions of your pitiful scenario

Want good fonts?
I got mine from here:
www.urbanfonts.com

Gameplay Sigs (this is as detailed as I'm gonna get, so if you don't know how to do something with VirtualDub you need to find out how elsewhere):

1) Capture video
2) Open in VirtualDub
3) Do any editing you want
4) Shrink or clip to siggable size and make sure output framerate is pretty low (like 10)
5) Export as animated gif

Examples:

Render used: Planet Renders // Renders - Comic Renders/Iron Man
Fractal used: Fractal Pack 2 by ~greentunic on deviantART

I was under the impression that this was already posted somewhere else .-.

Oh well:

It goes over the basics/many techniques on color change in Photoshop. The techniques could easily be transitioned to Gimp, etc.


Rip if you like, but at least try to give "Jiggy" credit. I try to share my knowledge with y'all

i found that very helpful jiggy ive been trying to do that for awhile. and btw WE NEED MORE! gotta teach us noob photoshopers how to do it! ill be posting some sometime in the future once im back into photoshop.