How do make gifs

Tip: If you want to save yourself some time later, number your files i. Click OK and head to step 2! You can select the range using the slider below the video. Next, tell Photoshop how many frames it should import. In this case, we imported one out of every three frames, and only half of the video footage. A small box will appear under the first image in your list: Create Video Timeline. Click this and change it to Create Frame Animation.

You can drag these around to reorder them. Press the triangular Play icon outlined in red below to get an idea of how your GIF will look. Also, make sure Forever is selected in the drop down menu to the left outlined in yellow , otherwise your GIF will only loop a set number of times. To see how it turned out, click Preview… in the bottom left corner. There are a variety of options in here.

You can add text, or jazz up the GIF with stickers, filters, or even hand-drawn annotations. Even if your only ambition is to create a shareable GIF for your friends on social media, letting the size of your photos or video dictate the size of your document might make the file larger than you need it to be, which translates into a poor quality GIF.

In general, somewhere in the region of pxpx is fine for a square image. For this project, we are working with a banner ad GIF, which has standard sizing guidelines. Make sure your units are in pixels. To keep the file size as low as possible, a resolution of is fine. Press Create to open your new document. The files will be imported into a separate document, from which you can select all layers and drag them into your working document.

This will open a panel in the lower third of the canvas. In the center of the panel, click on the arrow to open the dropdown menu, and select Create Frame Animation.

Your first frame will already be set up, made of all of the visible layers meaning the layer visibility, or eye icon, is switched on in your document. Now all you have to do is fill the Timeline with multiple frames to simulate movement. There are two ways to do this: import frames you have already prepared or create your animation from scratch in Photoshop.

This section will cover the first scenario. If you have already set up still, sequential images ahead of time or are working from imported video frames, see Step 2 , click on the hamburger menu icon in the upper right corner of the Timeline panel. Select Make Frames From Layers. You will see the timeline populate with frames from your layers.

If you have not set up the still images ahead of time or need to adjust parts of the animation you created in Step 4, you can create the animation manually frame by frame which is how I made my animation.

To do this, duplicate the last frame in the timeline click on the earmarked page icon in the tools panel beneath the timeline , make the changes you need to make on your image, and repeat. It's not advisable to set delay time lower than 2 because some browsers will ignore such values and default to slower animation speed.

By default, all frames will be sorted in alphabetical order by filename and will keep the original order if you upload existing animation , you can drag and drop them inside the GIF animator area to rearrange. Enable the "Crossfade frames" option, if you want to create a smooth, fading transition between images.

Useful for creating photo slideshows. You may have to choose just a segment of the video, if it is too long. This will allow you to take your layers and separate them into frames within the timeline window. You can play around with the order of the frames by dragging them. The trash can icon can delete a frame and the sticky note icon can add a new one.