Comments on: Create Animated GIFs With Photoshop (And Without ImageReady)

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:28:20 +0000

Was having trouble creating an animated gif using Image Ready, when I realized, thanks to you, that I could do it all in CS2. So, my problem was that my green color was turning greyscale. The red stayed red, so I was a bit confused. I finally figured it out, all on my own, that I needed to play around with the Color Table settings in the “Save for Web…” function under the File menu bar. First I loaded Windows color table and got me pretty much where I wanted to be. There was a slight color variation, but green is green and much better than gray! Thanks for posting. Bobby McGhee.

By: Anto

Anto — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:51:05 +0000

Hello Jeremy!
Your tutorial proved to be a fountain of wisdom. I created a simple animated emoticon to make sure I followed it. I drew the image in photoshop, made the animated frames, exported it with Save for Web & Devices, and imported it on to movie maker. A total succes.
So, now that I was ready for the move, I made a more complex animation. I had to “place” some of my drawings in to photoshop (meaning that it wasn’t 100% photoshop drawn), I made the animated frames, it plays wonderfully in photoshop, but when I go to the “Save for Web & Devices” the window will show the frame that I am currently in but itwont play! Next to the play button it says 1 of 73 frames, and when I click play the number moves but the image on the screen doesn’t. So.. Ignoring this fact I just go on and tell it to export anyways thinking of it as a glitch, but when I export it and open the file all I see is that same frame, no animation. Maybe I just skipped an awsomely important step of the process, but the truth is that I don’t quite get why it worked before with a simple animation and now it wont work with a more clompex and longer one. I would very much appreciate your response, and Im currently hoping that you are still readying these comments. Thank you!! PS: awsome tutorial :D

By: Jeremy Schultz

Jeremy Schultz — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:39:24 +0000

Hi Daisy,

Yes, I do check comments from time to time! :) Hard to believe this article is six years old and still gets comments….

Once an animated GIF has been created, it’s really hard to edit it without losing its animated frames. I don’t know of a way to do it. What I do is go back to my original file, usually a PSD file, and edit it by removing some frames (which is the fastest way to cut a GIF’s file size down) or by optimizing it when you save it to GIF format, usually by decreasing the number of colors it contains.

Jeremy

By: Daisy

Daisy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:04:12 +0000

Hi Jeremy,
Not sure if you’re still checking the comments on this page but I was wondering if there is any way to decrease the size of the gif file once it has been created. Your tutorial is great and was very helpful, but now that I’ve created my file I realized the file is far too big for our purpose. I appreciate any advice.
Cheers!
Daisy

By: murthy

murthy — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:12:19 +0000

how to create transparent images for gif animation in photoshop.
with clear effect.

By: deep

deep — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:26:53 +0000

i am using photoshop cs2 but when i create any animated gif image then how can i see that animation in picture viewer because i am unable to see it.

By: Pointer Men's Basketball

Pointer Men's Basketball — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:22:41 +0000

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By: Yuki

Yuki — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:03:18 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial. It was very clear and easy to understand. :)
However, I have one problem. When I try drawing on one of my frames on ImageReady directly, the newly drawn objects appears in all the frames… For example, all my frames have been set up and ready, but then realized I wanted a little sparkle. So I use the Pencil on IR and start drawing. But once I draw it on Frame 1, it appears in all other frames.
Is there any way to fix this…?

By: Matt C.

Matt C. — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:10:00 +0000

I made animated rain in CS5 and i am trying to get the rain falling onto a powerpoint and still be animated, is it possible that i can do that?

By: chris

chris — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:50:41 +0000

Hi, How do you get a gif to run at the speed it does in photoshop? its alot slow when i view it in a browser.

By: amelia

amelia — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:47:15 +0000

Thanks a lot for the info! I managed to create an animated gif using photoshop cs3, and it seems to work find when i opened it on firefox and IE. However when i uploaded as advertisement to different sites, they dont animate. I tried re-saving and re-sending the file, but they still don’t animate on all sites. What could be the problem and how to solve it?

By: Zaki

Zaki — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:14:44 +0000

thanks a lot! it works very well! and nice explanation!

By: Neevy

Neevy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:40:56 +0000

I have created different images that are for the animation I am working on. Mine are based off of a person struggling to swing her arms at the male character teasing her by pointing his finger at her forehead. I need help with how to put all off these separate images together because I go to open the first image; then I click windows so the animation box shows up. I’m trying to get the next picture to be the next frame 2 of the animation but I don’t know how to do it.could you tell me exactly how to solve this?

By: www.onlineisgreat.com

www.onlineisgreat.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:34:23 +0000

Thanx IT helped Alot

By: shana

shana — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:19:25 +0000

I saved mine as gif however when i insert it in my website it doesnt play.what am i doing wrong?