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How to make an animated GIF

Intro
Sometimes the only way to express the true meaning of an image is to show it dynamically as a video. This isn't always easy to do with all platforms due to the constraints of the media or your own data rate. This is where the animated Graphics Interchange Format (.GIF) image comes in and shakes its thing, kind of literally.
Sharing GIF images was popular in the early days of the internet with limited bandwidth and computer processing but it has come back in a big way with mobile phones and chat software such as WhatsApp and Facebook chat.
Sharing a GIF is quick and easy but you can make it even better by making your own to share with friends or publish yourself to win the internet!

What to do
get snapping

First off go capture a series of images or create a series of drawings that you would like to make into an animation. You could even combine media for a reality vs design creative melody!
For a near video like quality; shoot on constant high (Ch) or take freeze frames from a video. Alternatively try setting up an interval timer and capturing a time laps. Don't bother with RAW unless you really have nothing better to do than convert everything to JPEG. Just shoot in JPEG Basic as they are small files and quicker to work with. GIFs are very lossy (you lose image detail) so don't sweat it. With the loss rate in mind: don’t shoot anything very detailed or with close gradiated colours that need definition as the image will become very posterised. It might help to look at some GIFFs on line to see how yours might turn out.
Also don't forget to set your frame size around here. Most GIFF images are small to save on file size and make them easy to view on mobile devices.

Feed photoshop

There is loads of different software out there but we are going to use Adoby photoshop CS6 for this example.
You get your images into Photoshop by hitting: File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack…, in this window you can select Browse and add all of your images. You can now go make a cup of tea whilst photoshop loads all of your images as individual layers.

Timeline not Time travel

Open your Timeline by selecting it under: Window > Timeline.
If it's not already selected, you need to have the window set to: Create Frame Anima-tion, now you can press the little drop down box on the top right of the window and select Make Frames From Layers. On some versions of Photoshop you may need to select all of your layers before doing this.

Control your speed

Set the time that each frame will show for on the little drop down under each frame. If your GIF has a clear beginning and end, you might want these frames to last a little longer to make this more clear for viewers. Alternatively a well-planned looping GIFF could seamlessly restart, looking like there was no break in animation at all so keep those times the same.
You can preview this at any time by hitting play.

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Now set your loop on the drop down menu between just once to forever.

Save and Export

You don't simply save a GIF image, no, no, no. That would be far too easy.
Once you are satisfied with your animation, hit: File > Save for Web. You might need to go through File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy) on some version of photoshop. Either way go make another cup of tea whilst the software does its thing.
This window has loads of buttons so should be lots more fun than it actually is.
Put simply; the higher the quality and size you set the GIF to, the bigger and slower to load it will be. The presets at the top will get you through this but there are plenty more options to play with so your GIF will look just right.
Things like Dither are great for smoothing out the image with a limited colourscape but if yours has blocks of solid colour, you might opt not to use it.

Enjoy

Warm your toes here

Once you have hit the balance between detail and file size you can hit save and upload your GIF image, share with mates and obviously share in our new Everything-Moving gallery!