How to Create GIF Animations With Photobucket

Photobucket is an online photo-editing site with a lot of great functionality. You can upload your images, share them with friends and family and also create. There are many options under the “create” umbrella, from making items with your photos on them to very fresh editing of your images. This article will discuss making an animated GIF from your photographs. To begin, you will need to register for an account. Photobucket has a free options as well as an upgrade to pro option.

Instructions

1. Upload the images you desire to work with to your online album at Photobucket.

2. Choose to edit your image. Choose to do this under the “my albums” pull-down menu. Look around here, because not only can you do small edits to your image, but you can also change the image to be a cartoon or black and white and so forth. The sample file for this article was one image that was edited online to make a variety of images that are then animated together.

3. Choose “create remix” to open up the Adobe Premiere Express part of the site. Here you can create and publish a video. You can add your photographs or video from your album by dragging and dropping onto the large window and deciding upon how long each will be shown in your animation/video by moving the slider under the image.

4. Add functionality to your animation. You can add text, stickers, a border, music and transitions to your creation. Try out several of these options to get the feel for how the site works.

5. Choose to preview and publish your animation. Once done, you will be give a few options for a direct link to your creation or HTML code to paste into your own website.

6. Share your creation with a number of different options like Blogger, Facebook and email just to name a few by using the “share album” pull-down menu.

Tips & Warnings

• Photobucket has lots of options and functionality. It is worth your time to look around and discover its possibilities.

• GIF is an image suitable for online use; the letters stand for graphics interchange format.

Resources

• An animation created from one photograph and Photobucket's options