Creating an Animated GIF in Photoshop CC

1. First create a series of images that you want to make into an animation.
2. Create a new folder in your server folder in which to save the sequential images, which will become the
frames.
*Once all your sequential images are gathered into one folder and numbered in sequence, rotated, and cropped,
you are ready to proceed.

3. Click File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack. When the Load Layers window pops up, click Browse to
select & then open your image files, and then click OK. Leave other boxes unchecked.
This will import the files you selected as individual layers in one document. You can reverse the order automatically,

later, if necessary. At this point, you could renumber them, or make manual changes to the stacking order.

4. Now open the Timeline panel (Window > Timeline ).

5. In the middle of the panel, you will see a button with a drop-down menu, Choose
Create Frame Animation & then click it.It doesnt look like a button, but it is,
just click on the words and watch what happens.
6. To see all of the frames: In the Animation/Timeline panel fly-out menu (top right
corner of the panel), click Make Frames From Layers. Now your layers will
become frames in an animation.
7. You can also click Reverse Frames (they usually load backward).

8. Change the duration: Now you change the duration of individual frames, or groups of fames to 0.1sec.

Select a frame by clicking on the frame, or hold down on the shift key
while selecting multiple frames.

Click the drop down button just underneath a frame or group of frames.

This will bring up a menu where you can set a duration. 0.1

If all frames are selected, all frames will be set to the same time.

9. Adjustments:
Crop the images if you need to (when you crop one they will all crop)
10. Play your animation by clicking the play-arrow at the bottom right of the Timeline Panel.You can also play it
by clicking the spacebar.
If you do not see thumbnail icons of all your layers in the Animation/Timeline panel, you might be in the Video
Timeline. If so, click the icon in the lower left corner (the hover text will say Convert to Frame Animation.

Do You Want to Make it Loop?

11. At the bottom left of the Timeline Panel, you will see the word, Once Here is a drop-down button which
will change how many times your animation will loop; either a fixed number of times, or forever. You
chose which is right for your animation.
Select : Other > 10 loops

Save The Animation - 2 ways

Once the frame order and timing as been set up, it is time to save the animation.
12. Click File > Export > Save for Web & Devices,
Presets> GIF 128 Dither.
Save >
In the Format drop-down choose Images Only
Save to your folder, Yourfullname_GIF_Final.gif (This file will be a GIF)
13. Click File > Export > Render Video
Name the file Yourfullname final movie.mov (this file will be a mov)
Select where you want to save it > your server folder
Format > Quicktime