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Save as animated gif

Save as animated gif (ImageJ)
Author Ryan Raz
Maintainer Johannes Schindelin
File IO_.jar
Source on GitHub
Latest version March 2002
Development status stable
Category Import/Export


  1. Go to menu Images  › Stacks  › Tools  › Animation options...
  2. In the dialog, set the desired frames per second, or "Speed".
  3. Select the stack to save, and go to menu File  › Save As  › Animated Gif ..."

Done!

PS. in order to include overlays in the animated gif, such as ROI or scale bar overlays, these must first be converted to pixel data by flattening the image.

  1. Go to menu Image  › Overlay  › Flatten
  2. or use Ctrl+Shift+F.