My image viewer (Xviewer) is sufficient for converting still images to still Webp by just “Save as…”, but Xviewer and Pinta only produce still single-frame webps from animated GIFs.

    • klu9OPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Not GUI. But maybe still preferable to installing GIMP.

    • klu9OPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, lots of websites out there. Personally I had success with ezgif.com. But I’m hoping for a local tool, went ahead and installled Gimp, and after tweaking a few options in the “Export As…” window, I was able to get the file size much lower than ezgif.

    • klu9OPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I decided to bite the bullet and install Gimp. Converting formats and resizing take a while (I think due to my puny hardware processing the image) but it gets the job done.

      • dumnezero@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        easier than convert img.gif -coalesce img/xx_%05d.png ?

        If you want a nice tool for conversion and photo management, try https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/#downloads … it’s not open source, but it is free (there are some buttons for appimage and deb). You use the “batch convert” tool for what you need, and it has a lot of image editing in there… filters, resize, crops, formats, watermarks. (Not that gif to frames thing)

        • klu9OPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Used to use XNview back on Windows a few years ago, but I’d prefer free-libre. I’ll edit my OP.

    • klu9OPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’d really rather avoid something as complex as GIMP. The last time I tried it, the menus had so many options they didn’t even fit on my screen!

      But beggars can’t be choosers, might have to bite the bullet.

      • DDaveMods@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Initially, I avoided gimp as well.

        But I was looking at gimp the wrong way. I wanted to know it all and I wanted it to be intuitive.

        Gimp is a Swiss army knife. You won’t always need all the tools, and many of them you won’t even know are there.

        But with time and new quests you’ll start to add the functionalities of gimp to your own toolbox.

        • klu9OPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Thanks for the tip. Decided to bite the bullet.

          • Try “Save as…”, realize that won’t work and need to use “Export as…”
          • Change file extension to. webp, click “Export” and get a window with various options and checkboxes. “As animation” is unticked, so I tick it.
          • “This is… taking a long time.” Like, 5-10 times as long as a website like EZgif.com. (Probably due to my puny hardware.)
          • But it works! Results in an animated webp. About twice the file size of the one from EZgif but hopefully I can tweak things in that option window to get the file size down.

          Thanks :)

          • klu9OPEnglish
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            2 days ago

            I am able to reduce the file size with those options, got it down to half the size of the one from EZgif, and I could probably squeeze it even further if I wanted.