How to Create an Animated gif File With Adobe Imageready
Adobe ImageReady is bundled with Adobe Photoshop, and it includes a lot of Web-centric graphics options. One of them is creating animations, which can be exported to the GIF format. Animated GIFs were once the dominant form of animation on the Internet, and are still used for banner ads and site highlights. They also don't require a browser plug-in to display, making them theoretically accessible to a wider audience.
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Things You'll Need
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Adobe ImageReady (bundled with PhotoShop in most versions from CS and later)
Instructions
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Open your PhotoShop file, and create the "base image" for your document. If this is a banner ad or a social media icon, this should be the image you want people to see first.
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Create a new layer, with the second frame of the animation you want people to see. Repeat this step for each frame of the animation. Once you have each frame of the animation on its own layer, click the "Jump to ImageReady" icon in the toolbox; this will open the file you just created in ImageReady.
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Click on the Animation palette in ImageReady. Click the "Duplicate Current Frame" icon a number of times equal to the total number of frames your animation will run.
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Set the length of time that each frame will run, by clicking on each animation frame icon in turn and setting the time. You'll be able to set the duration of each frame here.
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Drag the frame information from each layer in the PhotoShop document to the appropriate Animation frame in ImageReady.
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Click the "Play" button to preview your animation. Adjust the duration of each frame as needed to get the effect you want.
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Save your file as an animated GIF by going to the File menu and selecting "Save Optimized." You'll be prompted to give the animated GIF a name and save it to your computer. You should also save the original file in PhotoShop (with the separate layer information) in case you want to work from that set of images and layers again.
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