Under the Frame Disposal options choose Cumulative Layers (combine) as this keeps the background layer on display while the masked layers animate over the top of it.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Log in sign up User account menu 64 How can I make a cinemagraph with GIMP.

It is a good tutorial, and worth reading to supplement my tutorial.

The technique is quite simple when using Photoshop, and is also quite simple with GIMP but not as elegant: it is not as automated, and therefore contains a simple, repetitive element.

Also you need to prepare the video file as image files first, as GIMP cant open AVI files.

If you open a Cinemagraph in GIMP you will find it is a regular animated gif but that it comprises a complete background image, and above that a stack of images that are entirely transparent, save for the sections of each image that comprise the moving elements seen when you view the Cinemagraph.

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This is worth bearing in mind to understand how to make them.

You will need: a video clip (this tutorial assumes AVI format) GIMP The GIMP Animation Package (GAP) extension to GIMP if you dont have it already (if the tab Filters in GIMP shows no Animation subheading I guess that means you dont have it) A method to export frames of a video as image files.

This tutorial uses ffmpeg as Im using GNULinux and its available easily via a package manager.

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Windows and Mac users may have to use something like Streamclip, unless there is a free software option for their platform If you want to give it a go heres how to make a simple Cinemagraph in GIMP: Take your video clip and place it in its own folder.

Open a terminal emulator in the folder and use the command-line tool ffmpeg to export all the frames from the video as image files.: ffmpeg -i YourVideoClip.AVI framed.jpg Needless to say, if the video is long there will be a lot of frames and a lot of resulting jpg files.

Choose the sequence of images to make the Cinemagraph with.

Delete the rest. Open the first frame of your sequence in GIMP.

The layers window will label it Background.

Save this as a-title-you-choose.xcf so it can be opened and edited easily later (xcf being GIMPs native file format).

Go to File, then Open as layers.

Select all the remaining images in your sequence (click the first then Shift click the last) and load them into GIMP.

They will be added sequentially by file name into the layers stack.

On the top layer (just because its currently the only visible one) select the areas you want to show moving in the finished Cinemagraph.

I used a feathered edge of radius 10.0 to give a soft edge to the resulting mask.

Save the selection you have made to a channel by going to Select and choosing Save to channel.

Now deselect your selection by doing Select and then None.

Now comes the sweetly repetitive part.

Right click in the Layers window on the top-most layer of the stack.

You will notice that the selection you saved to a channel is pre-selected for you.

Now right-click on the next layer down and click Add layer mask, you will see Channel is pre-selected so just press Enter on your keyboard.

Now right-click the next layer down, click Add layer mask, press Enter.

Done. If you want to use the FiltersAnimationPlayback function to preview your gif (ahem.Cinemagraph) you will need to apply all those masks, layer by layer.

Instead I go to File and Save a copy and give it a name (ie: something.gif.).

The gif dialog will open, showing radio buttons.

Choose to save as an animation, and to limit colours or to use greyscale.