The gif format is fine. It works. To be honest with you I had never heard of the apng until this forum.

APNG is just a way to save PNG files as animations but with better quality than GIF because PNG supports more colors.
The APNG extension also saves with transparency, but the file sizes can get huge.
I have heard through the grapevine about a JPEG that will support animation, and transparency being looked at for future browser support.JPEG files are smaller than PNG usually, and support just as many colors.

Another question. How do I put the effects in a pic?
Thanks

Thanks Rob. I thought there was something with a gif being not the best option out there, but again gif is fine.

Tux is a font

snow flake picture
selected the inside with the fuzzy select -delete
fill with one of O great patterns
duplicate and fill with a different one

I guess I don't understand as usual, but all I come up with are three different images. I don't see the snowflake. How do I pick a different image that I can't see?
Thanks

i did a google search for snowflake and copied and pasted into gimp
click in side with fuzzy select tool and hit delete key
bucket fill with one of o's patterns
duplicate the layer and fill with another pattern
duplicate a few more times with a different pattern
filter -animation -playback

..and did work ?

AHH i understand you now

The snowflake should be a font, more exactly a dingbat, and font must be installed to work

i found one free here http://www.dafont.com/lp-snowflake.font

the snowflake is a picture i copied from google search
pretty much just made a animated gif from O's patterns
it would be nice if Tuxs script would work on selections

Are you talking on the selection a pic? That would be great.

This is what I did with it but I'm new with gimp and am trying to figure out how to save it so it is animated when I upload it on flickr or my facebook can any help me on that or can you just not post animated pics on those sites?

Save it as a GIF extension.Gimp will launch a dialog with an option to make it an animation.Tick it.
Gimp will save the image as an animated GIF in layers.

I have never uploaded animations to Flickr or Facebook so i do not know if you can.
You could upload it to another free website host and link to it from there. Many folks will use a free hosting account just for this purpose. Just Google free hosting accounts to find one suitable for your needs.
Many free image hosters such as ImageShack and the like, do not allow animations to be saved on their servers. It simply takes up too much room.

Not sure for facebook but i may clear for flickr you may upload animation on flickr BUT animation is displayed only at "original image size":...so not in the gallery view not even in the page view but only when clicking "all size/original size" in the "Action" link above the image

BUT luckily there is a workaround.
Upload the image
Grab from the "Share" menu the html code for the FULL size
click to reply and in the reply copy the html code

Html code works on many sites but on very few forum..for forum as this here you need the other options in the share dialog the BBcode

Hard to say about facebook as they change the rules all the time. I used to be able to have animated gifs in 'notes' but then they stopped working. I also used to have stuff rss'd from blogger into facebook notes and now that has been taken away.

One letter and one symbol .... g+

All you need to know!

Wow...that's beautiful....wish I could do things like this

Fun script, I thought I would have a go at it.

hehe, i don't think any of us here is afraid of worms . why don't you just post a new topic under gimp art, name it "some of my stuff" and put the pics there?

in 2.8 yes and can be advantages