Gimp animation plugin

Animated GIF images are all over the internet. You can find them on websites, on social networks and even in messaging apps that we all use on our smartphones.

Have you ever wondered if you could create a GIF animated image using your photos? If you did, in this tutorial we are going to show you an easy way of creating an animated GIF file, using any pictures you want, and a free application called GIMP.

Gimp gif editing

Let's dive in:

What is GIMP and where to get it

GIMP is a free image editing app, available for anyone to download and use. You can download it from its official webpage. For this tutorial, we used the version 2.10.

After you download it, run the installer.

How to create an animated GIF file, using your pictures

The first thing you should do is select the pictures that you want to use for creating the animated GIF file.

For a more straightforward process, we recommend that you copy all of them in a separate folder. For our example, we are going to use two pictures, and we copied them in a folder

can you make gifs in gimp

how to make a gif in gimp