Plottimation Tool

Make an animated GIF from a photo of a frame-sheet.

v1.17 • Instructions • Demo Video • Templates

By @golanlevin, 2026 • Source

Photo

Drop a photo or scan here, or click to choose a file. Choose a photo to begin, or load a demo. All media are processed locally. Animation frames should be separated by crosses, dots, or empty gutters.

Alignment Pipeline Markerless (gutters, frames) Markers (crosses, dots)

Layout

Frame Columns Frame Rows

Paper Orientation Landscape Portrait

Paper Aspect

Page & Grid Detection

Light-on-dark design Thresholding Method

Page Detection Threshold -20 Grid Search Inset X 80 px Grid Search Inset Y 80 px Grid Edge Threshold 8.0 Grid Edge Run Length 7 Post-Rotation +0.00°

Automatic Frame Alignment

Alignment Marker Type

Alignment Marker Region Size -- px

Detect crosses with convolution

Appearance

Brightness +0 Contrast +0 Vibrance +0 Color Temperature +0 Unsharp Mask Amount 0.0 Unsharp Mask Radius 1.0

Invert

Crop & Geometry

Crop Left Crop Right Crop Top Crop Bottom

Aspect Ratio --

Flip Horizontal Flip Vertical Rotate 90° CW

Export Options

Frame Rate

Output Width Output Height

Frames in Export Loops in Export

Reverse Order Boustrophedon Order Ping-Pong (doubles file size)

Encoding Quality 75

Resampling GIF Dithering Use Global Palette

Status

Waiting for OpenCV…

1. Page Corners

2. Rectified Grid

3. Frame Alignment Markers (read-only)

4. Preview & Export