You can quickly create GIF animation from some PNG pictures and add delay time to it, using ImageMagick program. The command line to be used is convert, a component of ImageMagick. Surprisingly it's very easy and I'll explain below quickly. Now, you can create as many GIF tutorials as you wish. Enjoy!
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Preparations
- Prepare 2 or 3 or more PNG images.
- Rename them to follow the sequence of 01.png, 02.png, 03.png, and so on.
- Install imagemagick if you don't have it: $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Picture 1:
01.png
Picture 2:
02.png
Picture 3:
03.png
Command Lines:
Delay 0.5 second:
$ convert -delay 50 -loop 0 *.png animation.gif
Delay 1 second:
$ convert -delay 100 -loop 0 *.png animation.gif
Delay 2 second:
$ convert -delay 200 -loop 0 *.png animation.gif
GIF Animation:
Here's the animation with 1 second delay:
See? It's easy.