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Let’s say you have a folder full of images that you want to sequence together as frames in an animated GIF. You can find special programs online to do this, but with some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop, it’s quite fast and simple. Gather the images you want to animate into one folder. Click File Scripts Load Files into Stack. When the “Load Layers” window pops up, click Browse to select & open your image files, and then click OK. This should import the files you selected as individual layers in your document.
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Rearrange the layers into the correct order, if necessary. This next step differs depending on what version of Photoshop you have:. For Photoshop CS5: Open the Animation palette ( Window Animation). For Photoshop CS6: Open the Timeline palette ( Window Timeline ).
For Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud): Open the Timeline palette ( Window Timeline ). In the middle of the palette, you will see a button with a drop-down allowing you to choose either “Create Video Timeline” or “Create Frame Animation.” You want to choose & then click the Create Frame Animation button.
In the Animation/Timeline palette menu (found under this button at the top right corner of the palette: ), click Make Frames From Layers. You can also click Reverse Frames if needed. This will take each layer in your document and set it as an individual frame in the animation.
Now we will change the duration of each frame. Make sure you are in frame view, not timeline view.
If you do not see thumbnail icons of all your layers in the Animation/Timeline palette, click the icon in the lower right corner (the hover text will say “Convert to Frame Animation”). Now, back in the Animation/Timeline palette menu, click Select All Frames. Click the drop down button just underneath each frame image (circled in red in the image below). This will bring up a menu where you can set a duration. Since all frames are selected, all frames will be set to the same time. Each frame can be changed individually, if desired. The drop down button circled in black in the image above will change how many times the animation will loop; either a fixed number of times, or forever.
Once the frame order and timing as been set up, it is time to save the image! Click File Save for Web & Devices, make sure the file format is set to GIF, change any other options if needed, and save the image! You will now have an animated GIF taken from a folder full of the individual frames. In fact, as long as each frame exists as a separate layer in Photoshop, the Animation/Timeline palette can be used to create the GIF. But, with CS5, CS6, or Creative Cloud (CC) it is easy to make separate layers from a folder of the individual frames as described. If you want to add a transition effect to fade one frame into the following frame, please see my other post,. Says: Your welcome, Shari!
Glad my tutorial could help. With large size gifs like you have it is hard to get the clarity of a jpg, because gifs are limited to 256 colors at most. I would recommend playing around with the settings in the “Save for Web & Devices” window from the last step. Make sure the gif is using 256 colors. Also try changing the amount of dither & the dither algorithm (Diffusion, Pattern, or Noise) to see what looks best to you.
Usually 100% dither using Diffusion is the default but it may depend on your image. Hope that helps! Says: Hi Rune, Thanks! Glad it could help. As for your question, I think I understand. If you are using CS5 and you drag another image into your current Photoshop document, it will appear with resizing handles and a superimposed “X.” Just hit Enter on your keyboard at this point & it should crate a new layer. If this doesn’t work (or if you have an earlier version), you can always create a new layer manually by going to the menu Layer New Layer.
Then try adding your new image. It should put your image in the new empty layer instead of in your other layers. Says: Hi Vineet, In the “Save for Web & Devices” box, lower the option called “Lossy” down to zero. It will make the file size bigger, but it should avoid the “dirty” pixels which I think you are describing.
To make two images fade, you will need to create the additional “in between” layers manually. I would make copies of your layers, and then use the Opacity value in the Layers palette, along with “Layer Merge Down” to blend your images one at a time to end up with a set of frames, which when animated, appear to fade. Hope that helps! Kahlia says: Hi I have a question. I’m confused about this part: Select all of the source images and drag them together into Photoshop.
Release them over the general workspace. The first image should show up with a superimposed “X.” New to Photoshop CS5, the images will stack one at a time as layers in your current document when you hit “Enter.” (In previous versions, dragging the files into the workspace would simply open each one up as separate files) I have CS5, but when I select the caps that I want and I open them, they open up separately and there is no “X” superimposed on the first image. Says: Mark, The “Make Frames From Layers” is found in the menu which displays after you click the small icon at the top right corner of the Animation palette.
The icon is small, but it is a little down arrow next to four horizontal lines. Ariel, In that same menu I just described (the Animation palette menu at the top right corner of the palette), click “Convert to Frame Animation” to switch back to frames. You can reverse this back by going into the menu again and clicking “Convert to Timeline.”. Says: Sheryl, To make it twirl, you need to create a series of individual frames where the graphic in each frame is slightly rotated compared to the one before it. You can start of by duplicating your layer (right click the layer, click “duplicate”). Then start a rotation transform on that layer (Edit Transform Rotate).
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In the top toolbar, there will be a box where you can enter the angle you want to rotate, it will have an angle icon & the degree sign. Put in a number like, 20 degrees & hit Enter. Next, just duplicate that new layer & repeat the same process. You can pick the angle you want to rotate depending on how many frames you want for the final animation. A larger angle gives you fewer frames, & a smaller angle gives you more frames. Just make sure the angle you pick is divisible by 360 so it lines up nicely in the end. Hope that works for you!