Making an animation in GIMP

[britt_m_89]

I am having trouble making an animated .gif. I have Gimp 2.8.

I go to file --> open as layers and open the screenshots I will be using. After I playback what the animation is going to look like, I then go to file --> save as but it will not let me save it as a gif. It tells me to go to file --> export which I do. When I go to save it as a .gif, I

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[britt_m_89]

I switched to GIMP 2.6 which took care of the problem I was having. Someone suggested that I should cap 20 frames per second and the results have been good. I also use 100 milliseconds as my delay between frames. I don't tick the "use delay entered above for all frames" box because 100 milliseconds is the default. Hope this helps!

Here are some examples of how the gifs looked after I applied all the above settings:

[amimichiru]

Seems like you solved the problem! That's good to hear. GIMP 2.8 is still pretty new (I just downloaded it today and am trying to figure out what I can and can't do with layer groups), so switching back to 2.6 was a smart call.

Also, love the GIFs. =D