On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 11:28:15AM -0400, adly mabro wrote:

I have small animated gifs of about 30 to 90 frames. I need to make identical changes to some or all of the layers, such as delete,change the timing attribute, adding and applying the same mask to each layer, etc. Until now I have been doing the repetitive tasks manually one layer at a time not having found any other way.

use gap.

the challenge of learning the gui might rival the time it takes to manually change the frames, but it is worth it in knowledge and how your time is being spent, in my opinion.

i put some things online: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp2/animation/gap

carol

"adly mabro" wrote:

I have small animated gifs of about 30 to 90 frames. I need to make identical changes to some or all of the layers, such as delete,change the timing attribute, adding and applying the same mask to each layer, etc. Until now I have been doing the repetitive tasks manually one layer at a time not having found any other way.
Could someone please help.
Very appreciative,
Adbeik

You might also want to read the book "Grokking the GIMP" which is available online at http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/.

There is also a tutorial for the GIMP Animation Package (GAP) at http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/AnimatedGif with a list of GAP tutorials at the end of the article.

Carol's tutorials are also excellent.

I have written a script that somewhat eases the task of changing the "delays" and combination modes of a multi-layer animation image. A description of its usage and a link to whence it can downloaded is availble at the following forum.

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Gif-Animation-Settings-3966-1.html