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GIF Tutorial

An animated GIF or 'Graphics Interchange Format' is a graphic image on a web page which moves. A GIF contains a set of photographs that are shown in a specific order. A GIF can be looped, or it can run the animation once and stop. 

Tutorial on how to create a GIF on photoshop below:

1. Import a set photographs.

Firstly open up photoshop and go to File - Scripts - Load Files into Stack. Click browse and then find the set of photographs that you would like to import, then click ok to load all the files into a single layered file.


Each individual file has now got its own layer which can be found in the layer palette on the right side of the screen. These layers will later become the frames for the animated GIF.


2. Open up the timeline.

Go to Window - Timeline to open the timeline panel. In the centre of the timeline at the bottom of the screen should be a button, click it and then select 'create frame animation' and then click the button to create a frame animation.


3. Convert layers into animation frames.

Click the menu button located in the top right corner within the timeline panel, then click 'make frames from layers'. By doing this, it turns all the layers in the layers palette into individual frames for the animated GIF.


4. Set animation to loop.

Click on the repeat menu on the bottom of the timeline an then select 'forever'. This creates a animated GIF which loops and continuously plays. 


Press spacebar or the play button to watch the GIF as a preview.


5. Export the animated GIF.

 Click on File - Save for web. 
  • Select GIF 128 dithered in the preset menu.
  • Select 256 from the colours menu.
  • Select forever in the looping options menu.
Then click save and save it into any desired location.



The animated GIF is now complete, below is my final animated GIF.

below is another GIF that I produced by using the same instructions which are above.

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