How to Create a Video Avatar in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Okay. I've been asked to show you how you make a video avatar. You know, I'm guessing video avatars are generally these kind of gifs that you find, usually, a lot of forum... In forums and stuff, people like to have the little animated videos as their avatar. It is quite a...it's not...I wouldn't say it's a tricky process, but in my...with my knowledge, it does take more than just Photoshop to make one unless, of course, you're going to go through and just have a screenshot of video and then compile all of the...all of the frames in the animation window, which I've showed you guys before. Generally, what I'd suggest is if you have access to Flash, you'd import it into Flash, convert it to a swf file or a gif file, and then export it into Photoshop. And of course, save it as a gif. That's basically the way that I do it anyway. Or if you have Fireworks, you can use Fireworks as well. That works just as well. But yeah, there's a whole...there's a whole bunch of programs out there that do the same thing. You can probably find gif maker on...for free online, but yeah, that's basically the way that I do them. So have fun trying to do that. That's how you make a video avatar on Photoshop."