Animated GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format which has come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference from 24-bit RGB color to 256 different colors.

GIF images also support animations and allows a separate palette of up to 256 colors for each frame.  Basic animation was added to the GIF via the Graphics Control Extension (GCE), which allows various images (frames) in the file to be painted with time delays. An animated GIF file comprises a number of frames that are displayed in succession.

We are going to learn create animated GIF images using GIMP, which makes your animation really easy and appealing.

GIMP is a free software to edit images, it may be as powerful and consistent as the other world wide known Image editor application: Adobe Photoshop. GIMP may be free downloaded from its website: http://www.gimp.org/

Here you go the tutorial for your first animated GIF