Animated Gif

Definition: An animated GIF is an image encoded in graphics interchange format (GIF),which contains a number of images or frames in a single file and is described by its own graphic control extension. The frames are presented in a specific order in order to convey animation. An animated GIF can loop endlessly or stop after a few sequences.

How to successfully create a GIF: 

Resize my images to an appropriate resolution for the web

For example 72 dpi, and 900 x 600 pixels, You can do this by selecting Image, Image size and set the dimensions above whilst selecting the Resample option.

Load your images that you want to create an animation with.   Import the images into the Photoshop file and organise the layers as the sequence that you want to animate. Layer 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

·      Select Widow, Timeline,

·      Select Create video time line

·      Drag the images into the time line and adjust each clip duration to e.g. 5 frames

·      Order the images in the sequence that you want to show.

·      To test the animated gif you need to press the play button

·      To loop the video you will need to select the “set the playback options button” and then press play.

·      To save the animation you need to select File, Save for web.

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