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Had a trip to National Botanic Garden of Wales which has a butterfly house where I took some pictures. On arriving home I found I had what looked like a series of nine pictures that may I thought make a decent .gif. How would I do this in penguin land ? With the "convert" tool I hear you cry. How did I use this tool ? Placed all nine pictures in a new folder. Opened a terminal in the folder or you could cd to the folder. Used these two commands $ convert -resize 1920x1200 -delay 100 -loop 0 *.jpg myimage.gif $ convert -resize 640x400 -delay 50 -loop 0 *.jpg myimage.gif Which gave these results, I decided to use " -resize " as the originals were 4928x3264 which I could have used but it would have made a pretty big .gif. Also there are a number of guides showing how to do this same thing out there on the net with " -delay 10 " which will give you a picture change every 0.1 second. That for me was a tad quick so I used " -delay 100 " to give me a one second change, " -delay 50 " for a half second change. The " - loop 0 " makes the .gif loop continuously, pretty obvious. You can leave out the command to just run the sequence once. Or you can do " -loop 10 " which will repeat the sequence ten times, adjust the number to suit. Running the above on my old 32 bit Dell I thought would take a long time but the command zipped through in less than a minute to give me the .gif. Pretty neat time for an old throwaway pc. Help me out here folks, Which of the .gif's look best from a picture speed changing viewpoint ? The half second or the one second speed. Ta in advance folks