Comments on: Build Animated GIFs in Photoshop.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:25:23 +0000

cool, thanks

By: Miss Honey

Miss Honey — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:09:07 +0000

Thank you very much for the tutorial! Just what I needed!

By: jeri

jeri — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:53:30 +0000

So cool and amazingly easy! Thanks!

By: Earl Cartwright

Earl Cartwright — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:14:52 +0000

hello my name is Earl Cartwright
for some reason I got into my head to do a animated gif and I cannot leave it alone in till I get one done here is my problem I am learning Photoshop CS4 on my own and I am 57 years old and had no formal training on computer if it would be possible for you to send me a step by step instruction on how to do this item I would immensely appreciate it I started with element 6 and went to element 8 and now I have CS4 it’s a little bit more complicated but I am learning it in elements I could create the animation and it would work but I could never save it to be used on a e-mail and that’s his exactly what I want to do your instructions on your website is helpful but not all clear so if you can get me going in the right direction I would be grateful thank you hope to hear from you Earl C.

By: amie

amie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:44:07 +0000

Hi, Im having trouble with animated GIF’s. There is an animated GIF that is available for me to save and use on my website but it seems whatever format i save it in when i uplaod it ontpo my site its just a still image and does not flick to other pages in the animation as its supposed to.
The animations i am trying to use are found here -
http://www.bourneleisuresales.co.uk/affiliates.php
The animations are under the resources tab and i have tried all 5 of the animated banners at the bottom but none of them work on my site, can you tell me where I am going wrong and how to do it?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:31:52 +0000

Slightly off topic question.

I have the CS4 web suite and I use just a few of the programs to build the custom button animations for my websites. Here is what I do now.

I use Photoshop script to automate the movement of a layer in a comp and then I Save As… the image. So, I’m using just one *.psd file and creating as many images as I need from it for the individual frames.

OK here is the problem. As far as I can tell, there is NO WAY to use the same .psd comp over and over again in scripts to create files that have a unique name. Something like Dog_01.png followed by Dog_02.png ect.

Right now I run the script and it saves a file like Dog.png and if I rerun the script it copies over the same file.

I know there are some of you thinking, “just use batch” but that doesn’t work in this case (I think) because I’m not batch processing lots of images that already exist, just using on PSD that’s already open.

Does anyone have a method of scripting a movement of a layer in PS CS4 and then saving the file with a unique name multiple times?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:18:21 +0000

Petec and Holly: The problem with e-mailing animations is that most e-mail applications (and most businesses) will default to a non-HTML view style when opening e-mails because of virus threats.

I know that in MS Outlook there is an option to disable animations as part of the HTML based e-mail page. I would guess that is your problem.

If you are sending an e-mail and want to test an animated *.gif, try using an HTML email program like GMail or Yahoo. Both of those enable image encoding in emails and then “give” the receiver the option to display them with a click.

I hope this helps.

By: jayadev

jayadev — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:52:29 +0000

but in CS4, Bridge gives you all the tools you need to import images into multiple layers in one Photoshop document.

1. Open Bridge.
2. Navigate to the directory that your images reside in
3. Select the files. Â You can click and drag around them, or use the shift button to select multiple files.
4. Now in the menu bar select Tools > Photoshop > Load Files into Photoshop layers

Now all those images are in one Photoshop files and you can get your edit or design on. Â How simple was that?

By: koyBoy

koyBoy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:27:33 +0000

I there a way to add links to the Animation frames? Like a slide show with each frame having it’s own link.

By: pigmango

pigmango — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:00:49 +0000

Petec and Holly: I’ve found the same thing, and I believe that it is a MS issue, not photoshop. (I may be wrong).

BUT to get around it, I hang the html and gif off my website and email the client the url of the html.