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Good afternoon everyone!  I'm on a roll today and would like to share with you a new way fade between images like so:



Special thanks to droz for letting me use two of his userbars for the tutorial!

Special note: this tutorial requires GAP to implement.  However, before you cringe and back away, we won't be using GAP in the "normal" fashion, which many folks don't like.  We'll be using a new feature called the Morph tool (see my other tutorial I posted here and at GIMPtalk.com regarding this neat tool).  However, unlike my other Morph tutorial, we'll be skipping a bunch of steps and producing animated sigs in no time. And, MORE IMPORTANTLY, painlessly!

Also, you need to have some basic knowledge of GIMP before you proceed.  I will not be addressing the basics.

You can use your own userbars or the ones I'm providing below:

• Open up your sigs in ONE GIMP image
• Add an alpha channel to the background layer like so:

• Duplicate your background layer and order them as follows:

• Go to the Morph tool using the following menu:

Once in the Morph tool, make sure you set your settings like so.



Make sure your Source Image (on the left side) is set to the Image 1 (or background) not the background copy.  Set your Destination Image (right side) to image 2.

• In the steps box, I used 5.  This is how many steps it will take to get from the Source to Destination image.  You can use more or less.
• Hit OK

You'll notice that you now have several layers.

• Go back to the Morph tool and make the following changes:

Use Image 2 for the Source and Image 1 Copy for Destination.

• Hit OK

We're almost home free!

• Go into your Layers dialog and make the following changes:

• Test your animation to see if you like it (Filters | Animation | Playback)
• Make changes as necessary to adjust to your taste.
• Optimize and save as animated gif.

You should have this:



How did you do?  Pretty easy, eh!?  Let me know if you have any questions.  I may have left something out as I'm in a rush, but will follow-up with you later if you have questions.

Show me your work.

Happy GIMPing.

Art