[bmxface]

How do i make animated GIF's with Gimp? or does anyone know a good place to read up on this? thanks

[Dolda2000]

You can't do that. Since GIF creating technology is patented, it can't be included in free software.

[bmxface]

Really? thats odd...i could have sworn that there was a way to make animations in Gimp and i thought it was using GIF formatt

[Dolda2000]

PNG's can be animated as well, AFAIK.

[variant]

I recently found out that it is infact very simple to create gifs of any sort with gimp: Just enter the filename as myimage.gif and in the drop down menu of available formats select `by extension` even though gif is greyd out it will bring up the save opotions dialogue as normal when you press `ok`

[bmxface]

AWESOME it is verry possible! thanks variant[/img]

[variant]

this is what i could find concerning the animated png problem. It seems that the png developers spkit a few years back some of them deveoped the MNG (ming) format which has simmilar features to png but allso supports animation:

MNG includes a number of interesting features:

* object or sprite-based approach to animation, with commands to move, copy and paste images (rather than replicate them as in GIF)
* nested loops for complex animations
* way better compression than GIF animations
* support for difference (or ``delta'') images for still better compression
* integration of both PNG and JPEG-based (``JNG'') images
* support for transparent JPEG images
* low-complexity and very low-complexity subsets for simpler implementation

Of course, MNG also shares a number of PNG's best features:

* unambiguous pronunciation (gotta love it)
* multiple CRCs so that file integrity can be checked without viewing
* ultra-clever magic signature that can detect the most common types of file corruption
* non-patented (you betcha!) compression, either completely lossless (PNG) or lossy (JPEG)
* full alpha support (multi-level transparency) for all image objects
* gamma and color correction for cross-platform consistency
* ability to store copyright and other textual info, either compressed or uncompressed
* full Year 2000 (Y2K) support (good for at least 63 millenia! dang!)

[scientica]

Originally Posted by Dolda2000

PNG's can be animated as well, AFAIK.

This is MNGs (as variant says). Thoug it's not (atall/)very well supported(by browsers, afaik - would be happy if I was proven wrong ) yet, I had to intsall an extension to MFB (Mozilla Firebird) to get that and JNG(read: JPG with PNG alpha transperancy) working.
I don't dare think on how poorly M$ would implement animated alpha transparent MNGs...

[variant]

hehe.. Unforunatly i think that most browsers have abandond MNG format as it is relativly unmaintained and also libmng is supposed to be huge.

[loft306]

Well in the usa you can now use gif's but i cant remember where to get the patch !... check gimp.org