this ones alittle harder so ill go into more detail

1.take your images and stack them like this,top layer being the bg

2.now duplicate each layer
3.give each duplicated layer a gaussian blur with these settings

4.now go to filters animation optimize for gif
5.now go to dialogs,layers,you should see something like this

6.now you want to edit the speed of the animation by right clicking on the layers,and going to edit layer attributes
7.make it so all the unblured layers are set to (1500ms),and all the blured layers to(100ms)
8.once all layers are set go to filter,animation,playback to see if the animation works
9.if it works save it as a gif,and your done

heres my result:

Those are great tutorials biggulp, thanks a ton

i just saw this one, very good job, this is a lot easier than trying to use the GAP.

wow, I just realized I had GAP all along

but these animation tuts are much easier

It doesn't work for me. I got it to animate on GIMP, then I upload it, and it doesn't work.

did you save it as a gif?

No. jpeg

well you have to save it as a gif for it to work

Still doesn't work. ;)

did you flatten it when you saved it as a .jpg(how many layers are there?)

Did you merge the layers or save it as an animation when saving it as a .GIF

Thanks guys, but it works now as you can see in my Rivera sig.