How to put several gif image into one single gif

[kenny1999]

I have several gif images that I want to combine them into one single image while
the 'product' is still a gif. The dimensions of the different single gif files are similar.
How can I do this??

[Ofnuts]

You have to merge each frame of one GIF into the corresponding frame of the other. There are scripts for this, such as my own ofn-interleave-layers. See the HTML doc in the ZIP for some useful hints.

[kenny1999]

(11-20-2019, 08:14 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: You have to merge each frame of one GIF into the corresponding frame of the other. There are scripts for this, such as my own ofn-interleave-layers. See the HTML doc in the ZIP for some useful hints.

Hello. I am not going to cover one gif image over the other. 
I mean, I'd like to put the gif image into 4 or 9 or 16... like this
for example, not one over the other, just putting all gif images into one single gif.
It's very easy if it's static image, but now gif....

[Ofnuts]

Ah that's different, I thought you were merging animations...

For this kind of thing;

Manually:

• open the first file
  
• Image>Canvas size and enlarge the canvas to fit the other images (you can specify the size as a formula: 40*4 so you don't have to compute it yourself
  
• File>Open as layers and load the rest, then move each layer to position (possibly using guides to make things easier).
  

With a script:

• Assumes your images are named in the same order as they appear in the final image, by row or column
  
• Install ofn-tiles that you get here.
  
• File>Open tiles... and give the directory where your files are
  
• See HTML file in ZIP for additional hints
  

However:

• Each GIF has its own "colormap" limited to 256 colors.
  
• If the images have more that 256 colors between them some colors will go and this will degrade quality
  
• In the manual process, the first image loaded set the colormap for everything else, so intense color loss can happen in the following images.
  

[kenny1999]

Hi I've tried your first manual method, but it does not work.

The output gif is distorted while at the same time, it is a static image, not an animated gif.

You can imagine that I am only intending to put, for example, four of the identical gif images

into a bigger single gif.....

[rich2005]

@kenny1999

I think something like this, Did this yesterday but then deleted after Ofnuts post. Looks like it might be what you need after all.  I wish I had known that all required was 4 identical into one. Try and follow the procedure open the same gif twice and put into different places, then open the result from that and repeat the process.

----- from yesterday-----

If you can merge 2 animations then you can merge another pair to give 4 in an animation ...and again to give 8 and so on.

I am not going over 4 animations as a demo, life is too short but the main points are:

Keep everything in RGB mode. Your grid for example, while a png, is indexed. use File -> Mode -> RGB

If you make your own animations, not too difficult. Everything should be same size / number of layers / RGB Save all your working images as gimp .xcf Leave gif until the whole thing is complete.
If you use a downloaded animation. You will need to change indexed to RGB, un-optimise if required, scale to size if required. Adjust the number of layers.

Using Ofnuts plugin ofn-interleave-layers from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-too...s/scripts/ about 5 down the list.
If you have an old version get the update.

The usual for Windows, unzip, put the file ofn-interleave-layers.py in C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins

This a quick 3 min 45 sec demo of the above gibberish. https://youtu.be/aOevlpVTw5s

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