If you're interested in making animations like this one: [link] , please take a look at this tutorial.

Click download to get the full tutorial pdf. The tutorial itself is 7 pages, but I've included lots of images to hep illustrate the process. If you use this tutorial please let me know what you think! It's the first tutorial I've ever written, so any suggestions on improving it would be great.

The .gif format is the most widely supported type of animated image. It's not as resource-heavy as flash animation, but of course it lacks the interactive capabilities of flash. These .gif animations can be easily viewed using Mozilla Firefox, and can be inserted into a webpage just as easily as a .jpg, without fear that someone won't be able to see it. These points make knowing how to create animated .gif's very useful.

Please note that this tutorial is written for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) version 2.6. If you don't have GIMP already and you want to follow this tutorial as is, visit [link] This program is an open source project, and as such is freely available for most operating systems. While the techniques detailed here will translate to other programs like Photoshop, the tools available and menu structures are different, so the specific steps probably won't make sense.