Tibreizh Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Hi, How to create an animated gif? I do not see where to find the timeline to configure the transition from one image to another. Could you help me ? Thank you. oscarlosan and VirginiaL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 26, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 26, 2019 Hi Tibreizh, Welcome to Affinity Forums Affinity Photo/Designer don't have a timeline nor support animated GIF's/animation. McPhearson, annanijagkajnavdkav, VirginiaL and 3 others 6 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tibreizh Posted March 26, 2019 Author Share Posted March 26, 2019 Thank you for your reply. chakko007 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrPx Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 On 3/26/2019 at 2:48 PM, Tibreizh said: Thank you for your reply. https://www.ssuiteoffice.com/software/gifanimator.htm Alfred 1 Quote AD, AP and APub. V1.10.6 and V2.4 Windows 10 and Windows 11. Ryzen 9 3900X, 32 GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB, Wacom Intuos XL, Wacom L. Eizo ColorEdge CS 2420 monitor. Windows 10 Pro. (Laptop) HP Omen 16-b1010ns 12700H, 32GB DDR5, nVidia RTX 3060 6GB + Huion Kamvas 22 pen display, Windows 11 Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaf Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 It' sound so sad. are there this function in the future version? because The PS program can do. yamyest, hungrydog, Hofnaar and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredphoesh Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 On 3/29/2019 at 9:27 PM, SrPx said: https://www.ssuiteoffice.com/software/gifanimator.htm This is ok if you already have a series of images for each of your animation frames. There is also good, free websites that offer this too, but what PS can do is to actually allow you to design the the frames, animate objects, output that as separate png files with alpha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrPx Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 For that is a lot better an actual animation software. With proper onion settings, not something smashed there in any way, with a convoluted workflow like in PS, and much better timeline and keyframes options than Adobe provides. Even Krita ( krita.org ) has that better. As someone that has needed to animate quite often, I'd recommend specialized tools for that. Most animation packages count on a free version. I believe Spriter has one, and Spine does so, too (not anymore). Sprite maintains its free one, though, and seems gif export is included. For pure pixel art animation, is thousands times better Aseprite. Is so important to do actually good animations, that I'd rather use a really good app for that, even if does not export as gif anims (but PNG or GIF frames) and then you need to use MS gif animator or the one I linked, to convert the bunch of frames to an animated gif (easy peasy, tho). Many apps allow to do this in 2 seconds. Probably what you need is the free version of Sprite (I'd pre-order the version 2, seems is going to be amazing) https://brashmonkey.com/download-spriter-pro/ That said, I love traditional animation, and some tools are very good for that, like : https://animationpaper.com/old-pap-free-download/ That old version of Animation Paper is really good and advanced. And the right move to make animation on the free land. That or Open toonz : https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ Alternatively, another interesting option is Synfig: https://www.synfig.org I have not deeply use it for animation, but Krita has enough features for that, too : https://krita.org/en/ And if you are making only pixel art, the thing is extremely clear, is getting this 14 $ jewel, it's a joy : https://www.aseprite.org/ When you do a bit more than the regular meme, you realize that you are better off with one of these dedicated animation apps (not referring to the converters, but the actual animation tools). For handling a bunch of frames and process all with the touch of a button, you might want to get XNview, XNConvert, or Irfanview : https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/ https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ https://www.irfanview.com/ Cheers, ducapb, PSDfield, davemac2015 and 2 others 3 2 Quote AD, AP and APub. V1.10.6 and V2.4 Windows 10 and Windows 11. Ryzen 9 3900X, 32 GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB, Wacom Intuos XL, Wacom L. Eizo ColorEdge CS 2420 monitor. Windows 10 Pro. (Laptop) HP Omen 16-b1010ns 12700H, 32GB DDR5, nVidia RTX 3060 6GB + Huion Kamvas 22 pen display, Windows 11 Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginpost Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 The one thing I liked about Adobe PhotoShop's timeline was that you could perform simple timeline animations using keyframes on layer/object properties which means, for each layer you could keyframe difference on: X&Y position of layer (including under a mask to make something disappear) Alpha % Visibility (on/off) Being able to do this would allow you to create one time or looping animations of a UI to simulate UX quickly. You could also create cool little simple character looping animations. I don't think it should ever try to compete with super complicated timeline animation tools for animation. That would be an entirely different product. But simple property in-betweens (tweens) over time would be nice. Kie R, Olivier78, LemonSherbert and 8 others 8 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayan fun Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 On 9/23/2019 at 8:54 PM, enginpost said: The one thing I liked about Adobe PhotoShop's timeline was that you could perform simple timeline animations using keyframes on layer/object properties which means, for each layer you could keyframe difference on: X&Y position of layer (including under a mask to make something disappear) Alpha % Visibility (on/off) Being able to do this would allow you to create one time or looping animations of a UI to simulate UX quickly. You could also create cool little simple character looping animations. I don't think it should ever try to compete with super complicated timeline animation tools for animation. That would be an entirely different product. But simple property in-betweens (tweens) over time would be nice. Totally agree! LemonSherbert and oscarlosan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef_D Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 I use PicGif for simple animated Gif, and its working fine. On the app store, cheap price, and it works with either pictures, or seq from a .mov file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V!nc3r Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (Hi all! New on this forum, also new Photo user) I just found this thread about ability to edit and create .gif, +1 for this enhancement. Waiting for that, I suggest an addition to @SrPx list, this very useful software : ScreenToGif. It allows to make a quick screen capture, but also have an editor to create a gif from scratch. selenita and SrPx 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
360Pat Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 On 3/26/2019 at 9:47 AM, MEB said: Hi Tibreizh, Welcome to Affinity Forums Affinity Photo/Designer don't have a timeline nor support animated GIF's/animation. So what is the "New Stack" option good for, if I may ask Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 According to the help file… Image stacks Stacks blend together multiple images to allow exposure merging, object removal, noise reduction and creative effects. Creative effects using stacks Composite images of multiple exposures using stacks. Exposure merging using stacks Composite images of multiple exposures using stacks. Noise reduction using stacks Composite images of multiple exposures using stacks. Object removal using stacks Blend images for removing moving objects using stacks. Focus merge source cloning Edit focus merged results using the powerful Sources panel. Focus merging images Merge together images with different focus distances for greater depth of field. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JofreJKD Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 I would like to know if Affinity Photo will add the gif animation timeline option? Arp_148, yamyest, laptopleon and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photography Remembered Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 On 3/26/2019 at 7:47 AM, MEB said: Hi Tibreizh, Welcome to Affinity Forums Affinity Photo/Designer don't have a timeline nor support animated GIF's/animation. Thanks it would be awesome to see this feature added. Quote Website Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Pikul Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Is there any news on this? I need this function on a regular basis. Is it going to be added? yamyest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 25, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 25, 2020 Hi @Ted Pikul, @Photography Remembered Welcome to Affinity Forums As far as i know, there's no plans to add support for animated GIFs/timelines/animation to Affinity, sorry. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Pikul Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Too bad. I guess I will have to find another way then. Thank you for your reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSB67 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Seems like the developers don't listen or pay attention to industry standards like animated gifs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eumarcio Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 On 9/25/2020 at 1:26 PM, MEB said: Oi @Ted Pikul, @Photography RememberedBem-vindo ao Affinity Forums Pelo que eu sei, não há planos para adicionar suporte para GIFs / linhas do tempo / animação ao Affinity. I really loved Affinity photo, I hope the future will reconsider putting function for animation. Affinity photo with animation would be more attractive, even krita is open source has this function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umalum Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Same here - I stupidly just cancelled photoshop which I used to do very simple animations in. I know that Procreate can animate though so I might just use that in future when I need to do it. Would be great if Affinity could do it too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotails Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 On 3/26/2019 at 8:46 AM, Tibreizh said: Hi, How to create an animated gif? I do not see where to find the timeline to configure the transition from one image to another. Could you help me ? Thank you. Petition I found a petition to make Affinity Animator a thing! If you sign it and maybe we can move mountains. yamyest, Blastkist, moi.cool and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Juval Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 I would prefer they don't bloat Affinity Photo with an animation feature. I'm all for Affinity Animator. If they make an animation app, I'd buy it. Andrew Buckle, Ezbaze and DBerlin81 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Aren't there enough GIF animation building tools (?), the net is full of them, freeware, opensource, commercial ones etc. SrPx, Andy05 and selenita 3 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NilsFinken Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Not a problem! I can recommend the free on-line tool ezgif at https://ezgif.com/maker 1. Just create your different "frames" in Affinity, 2. Save in one of these formats: GIF / JPG / PNG / APNG / HEIC / MNG / FLIF / AVIF / WebP or other images, up to 2000 files. Max file size 6MB each or 100MB in total. 3. Upload multiple files or upload .zip archive with images via https://ezgif.com/maker. 4. Download the resulting animated .gif file.. Works like a charm! 😊 Quote Lenovo laptop with Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, Windows 10 Home. Former user of most Serif software from PagePlus 3.0 through PagePlus X9, now enjoying Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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