Caught the baby oystercatchers yesterday dashing about. 🐦

(This should be an animated gif.)

For users of Acorn app: Open image, then File - Add Images … . Arrange layers to suit. Then File - Export - Web and other - Animated Gif.

@agilelisa Oh, it did work for you? Thanks for letting me know. It seems to work on my laptop direct but not on the timeline or web for me… Glad you liked it. 😀

@agilelisa Hmmm, works fine for me in Vivaldi but something in Safari is stopping it. Thanks for letting me know it does work.

@Miraz For what it’s worth, I’m reading Micro.blog in Safari and that’s where I was able to see your cute baby chick animation.

@Miraz I bought Acorn a while back but haven’t had the opportunity to try it yet. This looks like a nice feature. Do you know if it also can make them from Live Photos?

@agilelisa Hmmm, thanks. Must be something I’ve done on my end — some setting or something. Anyway, the important thing was it did actually work. 😀

@odd You’ll have to Google that question I’m afraid.

@Miraz 👍

@odd for Live Photos, you can just drag to the desktop, I believe.

@Miraz Acorn is a great app; I use it for most of my graphics stuff, and photo editing. I also use Flying Meat’s Retrobatch for making animated GIFs.

@dejus ok, I’ll take a look, thanks.

@dejus I tried Retrobatch once, way back, but it was way more app than I had need for. 😆 Acorn is my go-to for image editing if iPhoto export doesn’t achieve what I need.

@odd @miraz @dejus I use a shortcut to make a GIF from a live photo. Horrible resolution but then don’t all GIFs have that retro look?

@pratik easy way: change the Live Photo to a Loop in Photos; drag to the Desktop (on Mac); it’ll be a GIF (640x480).

@pratik Yes, I think I have it, but I was mostly wondering if Acorn had that functionality. I should test it out when I get set up with a newer machine.