Animated Gif

This short beginner's video series shows you how to make a GIF animation in Photoshop. Learn about setting up your work space, doing simple transformations and doing effects animations. Part 1 of 5 - How to Make an animated GIF with Photoshop. Part 2 of 5 - How to Make an ani ...more

This two-part video tutorial will show you how to create animated .gif files in Adobe Photoshop CS2. You can still use these directions in versions of Adobe Photoshop, with slight variations. Follow along with these easy steps, and you'll be making animated .gif files in no ti ...more

In this how-to video, photoshop wizard, Brandon Jackson, explains how to create an animated gif from your images and from video. More specifically, he explains how to limit the number of times/cycles your gif animates, how to specify the duration of each specific frame in your ...more

Initially, it is explained what an animated GIF is: a series of frames that are shown in sequence, and are looped 'forever'. There is an example of one of them in the background, and it is stated that it was created in around a minute, using nothing else than a webcam and a fr ...more

Fireworks provides all the tools you need to create animated GIFs. In this Fireworks 8 video tutorial you will learn how to use animated GIF files, including how to view individual frames, and adjust frame timing. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make an animated GIF file using Adobe Photoshop. Begin by opening the program. Then click on File and select New. Choose the size of your image and click OK. Now create your picture or text image. Once finished creating your image, ...more

Have you ever wanted to add animated pictures or GIFs to your website or blog? Two free software programs, GOM Player and GIMP, both allow you make your own GIFs. This tutorial shows you where to get them and how to use them. Part 1 of 2 - How to Make an animated GIF with GOM ...more

GIMP is a free graphics program you can use to create your own animated .gif files. Make sure that you have downloaded the video pack for GIMP, and then follow along with this tutorial to start making your own fun mini animations.

This walks you through how to create an animated GIF image file that can be used in websites, as avatar's, as icons, etc. You'll be using Microsoft Paint to create each frame of the animation, and an application called Unfreez (found here) to animate them together. This examp ...more

Watch and learn how to create a drost effect on images in GIMP. The end result will be a color cycled animated GIF. The theory behind this can be applied to make any other adjustments. Whatever layers you have can be cycled through continuously. Josh Sommers' Drost tutorial ca ...more

An animated GIF is a great addition to any website. By animating your image, you will draw someone's eye to it almost immediately. This is especially useful if you are creating an advertisement or a logo. In this tutorial, learn how to create an animated banner using the progr ...more

An animated GIF is a great idea for a banner to advertise your website or services. In this tutorial, you will see just how easy it is to make one of these moving objects using Photoshop CS or Adobe ImageReady. Animations draw the eye to your logo much more than an image that ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to make an animated GIF from a video clip. First, open up your video clip on your computer. Next, open up MediaCoder onto your desktop and convert your video into an AVI file. After this is done loading, open up GIMP software, then click on optio ...more

In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to make a winking animated GIF in Adobe Photoshop. Select a photograph of two eyes and duplicate the layer. Now copy the top eyelashes and paste them on top of the bottom eyelashes. Go to the eye drop tool and select a dark co ...more

Make your own small .gif animations on a Mac! This tutorial shows you how to use GifBuilder Carbon to take small movie clips and render them into your own .gif animations! This will work for any movie file except Windows Media Player formats.

SchizoFilms brings the viewers instructions on how to make an animated GIF in Windows Movie Maker. First open up Movie Maker. You will need to import pictures. To do this, click the button on the top left of the screen that reads 'Import Media'. Find your files here and import ...more

This software tutorial shows how to make an animated gif file that changes the color of your eyes or of anything you want in Photoshop. Animated gifs are perfect for profile pictures on sites like Myspace and forum sites. So check out this Photoshop tutorial and learn how to m ...more

See how to create a fancy "loading" animation using Adobe Photoshop CS4. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular graphic editing program or a seasoned design professional looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of this particular iteration of the ...more

In this Photoshop video tutorial, see how to make an animated dancing GIF picture in Photoshop. With Adobe Photoshop, you can do virtually anything, and with one single photograph, you can create a dancing animation of your character. After a little manipulation, save it as a ...more

Learn how to incorporate animated GIFs into Flash projects.

Code a retro style video game using old school sprites or other animated .gifs. This tutorial shows you how you can take a small character and animate him to walk across the screen. Make your own homage to Mario or a nostalgia-fueled video game or animation!

Looking for instructions on how to animate a series of images within Adobe Photoshop CS4? This is that! Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial, wh ...more

Internet whores (which would be all of us by now) are quite familiar with gifs. Just like popular internet memes like LOLCats, viral gifs are short videos or slide shows sequenced together for a comical - or at least unexpected - effect. Gifs are highly popular on the interne ...more

This video describes how to use Adobe Photoshop CS4 software to create and manipulate text in animated .GIFs. GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format, a type of image file which allows short animated sequences to be displayed. A preselected scene from a television show is op ...more

In this how to video, you will learn how create an animated loading gif in Photoshop. First, open the design you want to use for the animation in Photoshop. It should be similar to the design shown. Go to window and click animation to view the animation panel. First, change th ...more

How to create animated GIFs using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Imageready.

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make an animated image on a Mac OS X computer. Users will need to download the GIFfun program. Once downloaded and installed, open the program and drag the images into the program. Then set the time delay for each image, amount of l ...more

In this video, we learn how to make video clips into animated gifts. First, open Windows Movie maker and import a video file. Now, shorten the video to four seconds or less and save it. Now, go to the website gif ninja. Once on this site, you will see a section that says "tool ...more

In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to make animated GIFs with Adobe Fireworks CS4/CS3. It is easier than Photoshop and Flash. You can create a picture or you can drag and drop a picture. To drag and drop a picture, find out the dimensions of the picture. In the ...more

First we have to do is to create a new file with the size we want. Then we go to the layer tab in the left and duplicate the existing layer how many times we want (how many frames we want to have the GIF). After this we deselect all the layers by clicking on the eyes on left. ...more

This tutorial shows you how to make an animated GIF out of any video on Adobe Photoshop CS3. If you are having problems with the video not showing up, then: Does the video file work in other programs, and do any other video files work in Photoshop? You might have a codec miss ...more

Make stick figure animations using Magix softwareFirst, record yourself with a webcam using Magix music maker. This software is used to record, save and edit the entire video. A trial can be downloaded or it can be purchased. Second, edit the video. Third, save the edited vide ...more

This video shows you how to create a simple animated GIF in Photoshop: first as a frame-based animation, then as a timeline-based animation. You'll also learn how to manage animation options and settings. Check out this video created by Russell Brown now! Use the Animation pal ...more

Want to know how to make a simple animated GIF in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 (or any other version of PSE for that matter?). If so, you've come to the right place. This free software video tutorial will teach you how to start making your own custom animated GIFs in Photoshop E ...more

This clip presents an overview of how to convert a movie file into a high-quality animated GIF within Adobe Photoshop. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editing software or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program an ...more

How to create a custom mouse pointer with Flash and ActionScript. You can even use an animated gif as your pointer. The script for this is as follows: onClipEvent (load) { Mouse.hide(); startDrag(this, true); } onClipEvent(mouseMove){ updateAfterEvent(); }

If you didn't know you could make videos in Photoshop, you've got to watch this video tutorial! It's a simple process in PS CS5, much like making an animated GIF, but you can save (export) these files to video formats such as .MOV, .AVI, .MP4, and more! Just follow along throu ...more

Create a cute bobblehead turtle animation in Photoshop with help from this video tutorial. But this lesson only applies to Photoshop CS5, because it uses the new tool called Puppet Warp, only in CS5. The Puppet Warp is a great tool for creating animated GIF files, like this gr ...more

Learn how to make an animated GIF from a video clip using Adobe Photoshop CS4. You'll need to use an external editing program (like Sony Vegas) to create a small clip from your larger video beforehand. From Photoshop, go to "File" and select "Import" and then "Video Frames to ...more

In this how-to video, you will learn how to create flashy pictures and animated gifs for your profile pictures. This is useful if you want to put an animation as your facebook or myspace default photo. First, find and open the image you want to use. It should open in MSpaint. ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to change/convert a pivot animation into an AVI video format. Begin by loading the animation in the Pivot program. Now click on File and select the Save as type to Animated gif. Nam the file and click on Save. Then open Windows Movie M ...more

In need of an eye-catching banner? In this Flash 8 video tutorial you will learn how to create an animated Flash banner. Learn how to export your work as a flash file and an animated gif file. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the vi ...more