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This could be compared to having drawings in a booklet in front of you and when you flick through the booklet the drawings appear to be moving.

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A GIF is a format in which you can save a series of images so that they move from one image to the next to make a simple animation.

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Here we discuss a proper way of creating good animation using the GIMC plugin, a free plugin software.This post explains how to make an animated GIF in GIMP. You can use this method in gimp for animating another thing of any image according to your idea after going through this article. Today we discussed only one nice way of creating good animation by using the GIMC plugin, a free plugin software.

You can increase or decrease the speed of the animation from this option. Click on the вЂStart playbackвЂ™ button of this window for playing your animation.ДЄnd you will have this water flow animation on this image. You will have this type of playback window. So for playing it, go to the Filters menu of the menu bar and click on it, then go to the Animation option of scroll down list, then click on the Play back option of the new drop-down list. You can see the animation of your image by playing it. Processing of frame will depend on the speed of your computer.ДЄfter processing, you will have frames of your animated image in the layers panel. Once you have done your desired animation, then press the Esc button on the keyboard, and it will process your frame. You can added many keys according to requirement. I will click on the bridge for stopping its motion with water. A key will add here, and this key will steady key, which stops the motion of that part. Now go to the other part of this image that you donвЂ™t want to move and make right-click on the area of that part. You can press the Tab button of a keyboard for increasing the size of the circle of these key.ДЄnd again, press the tab for the normal size of the circle of the key. Just click on that key and press the delete button on the keyboard. We will fix them later, so donвЂ™t worry about this thing if youвЂ™re facing that. You will notice in a preview that other object of the image also moves with the water, such as the bridge and other objects. I will add more keys by clicking on water and drag them in the rightward direction because I want the flow of water in the right direction of an image. When you hit the enter key preview of motion will start in that window, and it will change with each adding of new keys.ДЄdd more and more key according to which you want to create motion. Now drag this key toward the direction of motion of your animation and go to (In-between) window, then hit enter key of the keyboard. In the Source window, we will do animation, so make click on that part of the image you want to animate, and once you click, a key will be added to that place. In one window, you will have a preview, and in the other window, we will create animation.

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Here you will have two preview windows like this. Once you have done the entire setting, click on the Ok button of this dialog box. If your computerвЂ™s speed is high, you can go with the вЂFinest (slower)вЂ™ preview option, or you can choose the вЂCoarsest (faster)вЂ™ option if the speed is slow. In вЂPreview PrecisionвЂ™, there is some option.

If the speed of your computer is slow, then take a fewer number of frames for quick processing. Now come to the Number of Frames option, here you can set the frame of your image that means how many frames you want to change in 1 sec if you choose 24 per second, then 24 frames will change in a sec. In the Output mode option, choose вЂNew imageвЂ™ so that you get animation on a new image.

Or choose the вЂActive and above layerвЂ™ option if another layer is above your selected layer. Choose the вЂActive and belowвЂ™ layer option if the other layer is below your selected layer. The preview of the image is disabled because of its need for two images selected for creating animation, so choose Input mode from this dialogue boxвЂ™s input option. Once you click on this option, the parameters of this option will open on the left side of this window. Now search вЂmorphвЂ™ in the search box of this dialog box.ДЄnd click on the Morph option of the Deformations filter. Once you click on it, a window of this plugin will open like this.

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