>>ok now heres the deal .. i do knw a tediously long and tiring way to fix this >>but i was hoping there would be an easier way
>>i have a background image around with i want to add an animated flaming text >>and a video which i converted to frames already. I have about 70 frames that >>i want to add, so i made a animated text that lasts 70 frames too... i just >>thought it was the logical thing to do ... >>now the way i know around it is to actually manually copy and paste each >>layer of the xcf i got from saving the animated text onto the each layer in a >>new xcf with the main background.. but for 70 odd frames that gonna be a >>pain. and i was thinking it would probably work with the frames i got from >>the video as well... >>so is there an easier way out .. im sure there is ... coz i opened the text >>xcf using open as layers... but dont knw how to merge the whole thing. >>thanks in advance >One way perhaps but not Gimp. >You can combine pairs of images with Imagemagick. (does not have to be .png >but does need to be a format that supports transparency) >For automating the process it makes sense to rename the sets of images. >http://www.imagemagick.org >Imagmagick is command line so in a console this command works >convert 10001.png 20001.png -compose dissolve -composite new01.png >note >The image in second place (20001.png) overlays the first image so second has >to contain transparency. >I can't see anyway around this, you can use a different command to 'blend' but >this alters colours. >In your case maybe if the 'flames' have a central transparent area allowing >the underlying 'text' to show. >If using windows, then you can automate with a batch file along the lines of: >FOR /L %%G IN (1,1,n) DO convert "1000"%%G.gif "2000"%%G.gif -compose dissolve >-composite new%%G.gif >where n is the no of frames. >Do yourself a favour here and make a project folder containing all the images >and the <something>.bat. >Change to that folder and run the batch file from there. Same applies using a >single command. >That gets you a set of combined frames, open "As Layers" in Gimp and save as a >new animated .gif. >This might get you started, plenty of 'ifs-and-buts' though. hey cool... thanks for that ... ill try that out soon enough ... anyways i just had one more doubt... may seem a lil off topic from this one though so i have this other .gif file that i am kinda trying to model my present pic on. so i just tried opening .gif file using "open with layers"... in the layers toolbox its something in this format xxx.gif- Frame 123 (combine) but when i open any other gif file like that .... it reads xxx.gif -Frame 123 (replace) now i knw that if i can get it to open as "combine"instead of replace then i will be able to complete this particular assignment... coz although this other gif might have been created on some other software... it still wud be neat to knw how i cud do this on GIMP.... hope im making sense.... and thanks again !!!! xD -- rainman400 (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
