After placing this script
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in your python plugin folder, open gimp. The script can be found at "<Image>/Layer/Stack shuffle and merge layers"
Open two or more .xcf files
Run the Stack and shuffle layers script, it stacks, shuffles and merges layers copied from all open Image files to create a new file, which can then be viewed as an animation in gimp or saved as a gif file
Important
1. The order in which images are opened is important, near objects in the image are opened first, the background image is opened last
2. There must be an equal number of layers in each open image
3. The computer may seem to hang if numerous images with many layers are merged, if the layers dialogue is kept open the shuffling can be seen and a guess to how long it will take can be made
Less important
The Images can be a mix of, RGB, Grayscale or Indexed
The Images can be of differing width or height
I've uploaded the three .xcf files in the next post which i ran the script on to create the gif shown below, I think it would be easier to practise on them than read a rambling explanation by me
steve
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