For this tutorial you will need a script made by Niels Giesen, there is no title but its used to save all layers as seperate PNGs. The pictures will save in the same spot of your original photo so if you start a new animation from scratch then save it first as a XCF.

;; -*- mode: Gimp; -*-
(define (script-fu-save-layers-to-files image dont-ask display-images)
(let ((basename (car (gimp-image-get-filename image))))
(when (string=? basename "")
(set! basename (string-append
(car (gimp-temp-name ""))
(car (gimp-image-get-name 61)))))
(let loop ((layers (vector->list (cadr (gimp-image-get-layers image)))))
(unless (null? layers)
(gimp-edit-copy (car layers))
(let ((img (car (gimp-edit-paste-as-new)))
(new-name (string-append
basename
(car (gimp-drawable-get-name (car layers)))
".png")))
(file-png-save dont-ask
img
(aref (cadr (gimp-image-get-layers img)) 0)
new-name
new-name
TRUE 9 FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE)
(if (= FALSE display-images)
;; clean up afterwards if we are not going to
;; display the images anyway:
(gimp-image-delete img)
(gimp-display-new img)))
(loop (cdr layers))))))


(script-fu-register "script-fu-save-layers-to-files"
_"Save all layers to a different file"
_"Saves all layers to separate .png files"
"Niels Giesen (niels.gie...@gmail.com)"
"Niels Giesen"
"2008-10-10"
""
SF-IMAGE "Image" 1
SF-TOGGLE _"Don't ask options for each layer" TRUE
SF-TOGGLE _"Display images?" FALSE)


(script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-save-layers-to-files"
_"<Image>/Filters/Generic")


You will also need a basic video editing program i use windows live movie maker because it lets me control the time length of all of my photos at once.

Make your animation in Gimp, run the script. Use default settings. Next go to your video editing program and open the pictures... use Ctrl+A to select all the photos, they should load in order. After that change the time length of all the photos to your desired time. To make a smooth animation i use about 0.1 to 0.2 seconds. This tutorial also works with GAP videos too.

I use this mainly for intros to videos and for special effects. No video quality will be lost because its all from the original image unless you use a GAP video but its still better quality than if you turn the GAP video into a gif file.

using GAP "Split image into frames" will do the same of the script

I did not know that thank you!

Carol Spears used to have some really good GAP tutorials that I haven't been able to find anywhere. Anyone know if they have been converted on other GIMP forums? Fencepost had a couple good ones, but the images are no longer in the tutorials (GimpTalk) so they are hard to understand since you can't see the menu screenshots.

This is a pretty good set of beginner lessons in GAP by ccbarr
http://www.gimptalk.com/index.php?/topi ... orial-set/

Some of Carol Spears old pages including tutorials are archived at the Wayback Machine at http://www.archive.org.

Many of fencepost's tutorials, including those for GAP can also be found at his deviantart site.

about Fencepost tutorial, in addition to the good indication of CCbarr,
you also may serch them on www.gimpdome.com

(just in case some was not on deviantart, or to follow question & answer on the tuts )

Wayback Machine archives are incomplete and lacking tons of images.

Oh, OK, I had not checked thoroughly. I just knew some archives of her old pages were there. I apologize.

No need to apologize. It seems that the Wayback Machine was particular about what it saved when it crawled over websites, which is also inconsistent. But the image archives are very sparse, which make following tutorials with screenshots very hard to comprehend.

mahvin
if you want i may search Carol e-mail, hopefully she has a back up
(see also my incoming PM )