hey guys and welcome to another Photoshop tutorial this is Rabii from www.retutstudio.Com
and in this video I'm going to be showing you how to make an animated gif to Showcase
the process of your work using the timeline's frame animation in Photoshop
So here we are in Photoshop and this is the image that you were going to be working on,
this is from a project that I did a while ago, if you want to learn more about how I
created this image check out the card right now and I'll put the link in the description,
so what we're going to do is create an animation that shows the process of putting together
this image from the start to the end and to do that we need to show the timeline by going
To window timeline
first we need to create a frame animation by clicking on this button, now yours might
say create video timeline change it from here to create Frame animation and it will create
the first frame for us
so this frame represents what is visible in the layers panel and what you see on the canvas
over here and if I make a change and hide all these groups you can see it updates over
here and basically what I want to do is hide everything and start from the very beginning
and create the first frame,
next I'm going to click on this button to create a new frame then I'll make my change
for the next step and you can see it updates in the selected frame which is the second
one , you can also click on the frame to see how it looks , im going to create another
frame again and make my changes , and basically you need to repeat this process until you
finish the composition
But If you have a large PSD that requires a lot of steps like this one it can be a tedious
process of going back and forth with the mouse between clicking on the new frame button and
making your changes in the layers panel that's why I added a keyboard shortcut for create
a new frame
that way I can go much faster and keep the mouse in the layers panel and if you want
to know how to add this keyboard shortcut go to edit keyboard shortcuts
then from the drop-down menu select the panels menu then go to the very bottom where you
see timeline frames, new frame and you can see that I added the f8 shortcut for new frame
Select it and press the key that you want to add as a shortcut click okay to accept
the changes and now I can just press f8 to add a new frame make my change, press f8
again to create a new frame and so on, and you can see that I'm going much faster now
so now I'll go through the rest of the layers and add the rest of the frames and this is
going to take a little while so I'm going to skip this step and I'll be back when I
finish
All right so I've gone through all of the layers and created the rest of the frames
you can see that it's 53 frames in total and now you can click on this play button to play
the animation
you can also change the looping options from here you can set it to play once, three times
or you can set a custom number from here, and in this case I want it to Loop forever
next you can change the delay between the frames from here in my case .2 seconds is
good for me but as you can see we have to change the delay of all of the frames and
don't worry if you forgot to change it from the very beginning because we can select the
last frame hold shift and then click on the first one to select them all, and now when
I change the delay to 0.2 seconds you can see that it updates all of them
now I can play it one last time to see my animation
and you can see that it when it reaches the end it starts all over again
Ok now that the animation is complete it's ready to be exported so go to file, export,
save for web
one thing that I recommend is that you resize your image before you go to this menu because
it will slow down Photoshop if you have a large file.
I'm going to resize it to 800 pixels and first of all we need the format to be gif, next
256 is the preferred number of colors but you can reduce it do 128 or 64 if you want
a very small file size,
leave the transparency unchecked because we don't have any transparent pixels in this
image definitely converted to SRGB if you're going to upload it to the web
next choose your looping options from here I'm going to change it to forever of course,
and leave the quality to bicubic, you can also see the estimated file size over here
while you are changing the settings before you save,
and click on this preview button to see how your animated gif looks like in a browser
you can also see the file information over here before you save it, and now when you
are happy with the sitting click the save button
Alright so that's how you make an animated gif in Photoshop if you liked this video please
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