How to add text over GIF animation?

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I have a gif animation and I want to add a caption over it. How can I do that ?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '14 at 11:12

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You can use convert, which is part of imageMagick:

convert -annotate +x+y "text" animation.gif

where x and y are numbers indicating the coordinates of the text where the origin is the top left hand corner of the image.

answered May 26 '14 at 11:12

thedoctar

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You may need to specify `-font ` to display non-ASCII characters. – LiuYan 刘研 Jul 17 '15 at 10:23

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '12 at 15:10

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http://www.online-image-editor.com/ Seems to do the job - I tested it roughly. Even has lolcats-text function :)

answered Dec 30 '12 at 15:10

I was looking for exactly that and for that very purpose :) thanks – ychaouche Dec 30 '12 at 15:57
Now I just need to compress the gif before sending it to the server (it's 13 Megs). – ychaouche Dec 30 '12 at 16:04
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Try an optimizer like http://ezgif.com or https://compressor.io/ They work on animated GIFs also. They are lossy so you may notice slight degradation of image quality (I noticed more with Compressor than EZGIF). With your huge 13MB file size, hopefully it will really cut it down. – Datarecovery.com MK Jul 15 '15 at 15:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 30 '12 at 15:00

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Opening animated .gif in Photoshop creates a layer for each frame. You can add text to those layers and and save back.

answered Dec 30 '12 at 15:00

There are 190+ frames. Is there a way to quickly apply the same caption to all layers ? – ychaouche Dec 30 '12 at 15:01
In photoshop case you should use "Actions" for automating. – Justinas Dūdėnas Dec 30 '12 at 15:06

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