Making a animated GIF in GIMP

Making a GIF in GIMP is pretty easy, and with this tutorial, you will know how to make one yourself!

What you are going to need.

GIMP 2.6.12 - it is a free image editing program.GIMP Animated Package - this is the plug-in that will later be install so you can extract video frames from videos.A video - it must be in MP4 format. This is going to include what your animation is of.

Preparation/Installations

First off, you should install GIMP. The installation is quiet simple, so it shouldn’t take to long.Next that should be installed is the GAP (GIMP Animated Package). When installed, it will give out a few more options in the GIMP program.

Preparation/Installations

It is probably a good idea to make a separate folder on the desktop or somewhere that you’ll remember for the video file and video frames to go.I would also advice to have the video trimmed to just the clip you want of the animation, but this isn’t necessary.

Starting to make the GIF

Now we are ready to start actually making the GIF. Open up GIMP. It might take a little bit to load because it is also putting the plug-in in for the first time.When it loads, go at the top menu to Video/Split Video into Frames/Extract Videorange.

Extract Videorange

This window should pop up:Click on the button at the end of the Videofilename line.

Another window will show up. What you are going to want to do is find the video file in the folder you put it.

Select Videorange

Now click Video Range. Off to the side now a new part of the window will appear. This is where you will choose the frames you want to have a animated GIF of.You use the timeline thing to find the frames you want to use.

A few things to note.

If a window pops up asking to create a Videoindex, just click ok.In the check boxes below, have Loop and Selection only checked.

Selecting the Frames

Find the frames of the video you want, then put the starting one and the ending one in the boxes.After you get those go back to the other side of the window and check Create only one multilayer Image. And also set the Audiotrack to 0, then click ok.

Editing the Picture

The GIF is currently animated, but it is probably to large or not cropped yet. You are most likely going to want to scale the image down to a suitable size.

Saving the Picture

Okay, when you edit the image and it is ready to be saved, go to File/Save As.

Under Select File Type (By Extension) find and click GIF Image.

Saving the Picture

When this next window appears, just click Save as Animation. Then Export.

Final Saving Steps

In the Delay between frames where unspecified: put in what the speed of the video frames were before.And finally, check Use delay entered above for all frames. Then save.

Congratulations!

If you followed the steps right, you should have a animated GIF!