Better GIF support, please

[TheDoctorCrow]

I recently started using the programme and decided to experiment with the GIF file.
It didn’t work well with some of the colours, and most importantly, it didn’t upload the GIF as an animation, i.e. without frames. There’s just one frame from the end and that’s it.
Please improve the gif support.

[AhabGreybeard]

Hello @TheDoctorCrow and welcome to the forum

I’ve changed the category of your topic from Develop: Feature Requests to
Support and Advice: General Questions because:

@TheDoctorCrow

It didn’t work well with some of the colours,

In what way didn’t it work well?
In what way should it work better?

@TheDoctorCrow

it didn’t upload the GIF as an animation, i.e. without frames. There’s just one frame from the end and that’s it.

I’ve just made a .gif animation. You can make .gif animations with krita:

Animation with Krita

Which version number of krita are you using?
Where did you get it from?
Which operating system are you using?

Please upload a full screen screenshot of the application windows with your animation. Show the entire Layers docker and the Timeline docker.
Also upload a screenshot of the Rendering windows when you try to render it to an animated .gif.

[Takiro]

@TheDoctorCrow

It didn’t work well with some of the colours

GIF is a 37 years old file format, Krita has perfect support for it. A GIF file can only support 256 colors at the time.

GIF is by default a still image, that’s what you get when you “save as” or “export” to GIF. GIF animations are something different you have to render them using the “render” option in Krita.

When you want something higher quality then don’t use GIF but something modern instead, like mp4 for example. Many files people nowadays colloquially refer to as GIF are actually not GIF but video files instead.

@TheDoctorCrow

it didn’t upload the GIF as an animation

Didn’t upload to where? A website? Most websites don’t accept animated GIF files because they’re inefficient and huge in size (compared to normal images or videos with modern encoding) and often will convert them to something different (lke a static GIF or JPG) and all your frames get lost in the process.

[TheDoctorCrow]

Thank you for the explanation.
I have already found the tab for importing videos into the programme.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

I just wanted to experiment and try to create rotoscoping and I didn’t know how to do it.

[KnowZero]

Just a minor correction, when most people say GIF, they likely mean animated images and not video.

Animated image(capable) formats include: gif, webp, apng, jxl
Video would be things like: mp4, webm, mkv, ogg

[Takiro]

Honestly, I have had interns age 16 and they referred to pretty much any “picture that moved” as gifs, even videos on YouTube or Twitter. I guess that’s just how things are now, just like everything is called an App nowadays, even when it’s maybe just a website or a batch script.