Forgive me if this has been answered before, I did a search and didn't see anything that answered my question.

First off, this is my first time attempting to animate anything in over a decade. (Old!)

second off, I made an animation that makes me laugh, and I would like to share it (facebook, tumblr) but I have no idea what file format or what to use. I'd love to turn it into a gif but when it comes to moving images, I have no idea what I'm doing file wise.

Please advise, and thanks in advance!

Animated GIF is probably still easiest to share, because Google Chrome doesn't support APNG yet. If you're on Linux, ImageMagick is a good option to create your animatied gif. For Windows or OSX, you'll have to use Google, I'm not sure what the best option for those systems is.

I suppose i should have been more specific. I found this forum via the Krita Animation page. So, backing up, I made an animation using Kirta. There is no option to save as a gif, only some file known as .kra. I've seen others share their animations, but I have no clue how to do so. The fact I even figured out how to make an animation is probably something short of a miracle as I bumbled through it.

nicolelapointe wrote:I suppose i should have been more specific. I found this forum via the Krita Animation page. So, backing up, I made an animation using Kirta. There is no option to save as a gif, only some file known as .kra. I've seen others share their animations, but I have no clue how to do so. The fact I even figured out how to make an animation is probably something short of a miracle as I bumbled through it.

You can export frames via file->export, and then assemble them to a gif with one of the programs boud suggested. Animation is in beta, so we're not done yet with gif export.

TheraHedwig wrote:

nicolelapointe wrote:I suppose i should have been more specific. I found this forum via the Krita Animation page. So, backing up, I made an animation using Kirta. There is no option to save as a gif, only some file known as .kra. I've seen others share their animations, but I have no clue how to do so. The fact I even figured out how to make an animation is probably something short of a miracle as I bumbled through it.

You can export frames via file->export, and then assemble them to a gif with one of the programs boud suggested. Animation is in beta, so we're not done yet with gif export.

Ahhhh...ok. I will give that a shot. I was wondering if I would have to do something like that. Thank you, makes sense now. I look forward to the gif export.