An optional single-window mode was introduced in GIMP 2.8 (ref), with multiple images in tabs instead of in separate windows. It seems that this became the default mode in GIMP 2.10, although it's not mentioned in the release notes. The mode can be changed by checking or unchecking in the menu.
To install and use a Script-Fu script: download the script and store
it somewhere (e.g., ~/Downloads/GIMP/). Determine
where your scripts directory
(e.g., ~/.gimp-2.8/scripts/)
is by doing . Copy the script
to that directory. Do .
The new function should now
appear in some menu. If you have trouble finding it,
do and hunt for it,
or look for it under the ‘root file menu filters’
(ref;
I don't actually know what that means).
You can also look for the script-fu-menu-register command
in the script itself to see where in the menu system it will go.
For methods of stitching images together to make panoramas, see, for example, Stitch Panorama, Thomas R. Metcalf’s GIMP plug-in written in Python.
When exporting layers to an animated GIF, there doesn't seem to be a way to export only certain layers (e.g., the visible ones). My work-around is to delete the layers that are not wanted in the animation, do the export, and then use Ctrl-Z to undelete the layers. A beforehand can reduce stress.
The delay for an animation frame is set by editing the descriptive
text of the corresponding layer, specifying the delay within
parentheses (e.g., Frame 50 (100ms)
for 100 milliseconds).
Download the Gimp Animation Package (GAP) from
http://photocomix-resources.deviantart.com/.
(GAP is currently intended for GIMP 2.6 but seems to work for for GIMP 2.8.)
My Info-Zip was unable to unzip the file but I could unzip it using
the unzip command in a VirtualBox Linux guest.
In the resulting GAP.2.6_win\/
see HOW TO INSTALL.txt and
TUTORIAL_Doc/Gap_Help_Tutorial/Gap-For-Animated-Gif-9937.html.
Run GAP.2.6_win\GAP-installer\Gimp-GAP-2.6.0-Setup2.exe.
Browse to select
user\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins\
as install location.
(When I did this, the GAP files gap_*.exe ended up in
plug-ins\lib\ rather than in plug-ins\ itself.
I manually moved them.)
At least parts of the tutorial included with the GAP installer are dated. See also the tutorials (also old) by Jakub Steiner: Simple Animations (without GAP), Using GAP and Advanced Animations Tutorial.
After opening an existing GIF animation, the first step in using GAP is to do . This stores each frame in a separate numbered image file and then displays the first frame image. A different frame can be displayed by doing .
There is a crop-all-frames function but there doesn't seem to be a way to visualize the crop boundaries in the context of an actual frame. An alternative is to simply crop the original animated GIF before starting to use GAP.
There is a menu entry; actual playback seems to be done by pressing on the up (or down) arrow of the current-frame-number box. also provides playback.
This is another set of animation tools, in the form of a script: animstack.tumblr.com. I haven't tried it yet.
This is based on Pixel Byter's grass tutorial. I have removed the graphics and narrative, and made the menu choices more explicit. The specific parameter values are those suggested in the original tutorial, but of course can be varied to taste. For my own use I have omitted steps 2 and 3, to get the effect of a smooth lawn.