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My first tutorial, created on a whim because ~toxic-paradise asked me how I made the blinky eye. A three-hour whim XD I need to get a life.

Careful, it's huge.

Anyway, first tutorial, if something's confusing please ask.

Tutorial is about the GIMP; I don't think it'd work with other programs, sorry. It might, you never know. I certainly don't.

Blinky eye found here [link]

EDIT: Okay, so the main question I'm running into is about the transparencies. Basically, the way the animation works in GIMP is that it stacks the layers on top of one another. It doesn't swap one out for another. So if you have transparencies, you're going to see the lower layers behind them.

Another thing: When you hit "Optomize" (Why, no, I can't spell, how did you guess?) what happens is that GIMP takes your GIF and turns everything that's repeated into transparencies. So say you have a blue background with a little stick figure dancing on it. You would probably put the blue background on every frame. GIMP would then replace the background with transparencies eveywhere that it didn't change.

That doesn't make sense. Um... it makes your filesize a lot smaller, and it therefore good.
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~Catzeye22 Mar 31, 2012  New member Hobbyist General Artist
web site for making a gif?

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~ageantperry Mar 24, 2012
the gimp people make this oh so complicated a thus we have this... Stupid gimp people >-<

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~BBC47 Mar 19, 2012
How to see tutorial?
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~ageantperry Mar 24, 2012
click download image :)

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~lokami-the-wolf Mar 9, 2012
I'm wondering if you could help me.
I've downloaded an avatar, and i want to customise it in GIMP.
But everytime I go to put a colour on it, The colour is grey....
Say if i choose purple, The purple will paint as grey. :(
Please help!
~loki

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Mood: Love ~RiverRocks2121 Jan 31, 2012
Awesome!! Two thumbs up! :)

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Mood: Wow! ~Chicken-Bizzy-Kit Dec 19, 2011  Student Digital Artist
Great!
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~TheSilverSpirit Dec 11, 2011  Student General Artist
this is such an amazing tutorial!

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~SatphireDA Nov 21, 2011  Hobbyist Artist
this sounds easy enough, I'm recently doing a picture and i was going to make it just look like the petals and roses were floating in the wind, but then i was like "LETS MAKE THIS A PROJECT" and thus I'm going to try and make this a GIF xD I hope it works, but i guess since it's my first try i shouldn't feel bad if it turns of ugly >_<

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~ShadowJackal35 Nov 18, 2011  Student General Artist
Thank you so much! This really helped me!! It's much easier than Gimp's explanation, or maybe I just wasn't smart enough to understand that? ^^; Either way, great job, I'm sure you helped many people. :) (obviously, by reading your other comments).

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