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Next I’m going to click on the new frame button to create a new frame then I’ll make my change for the next step by showing the next layer or layer style and you can see it updates in the selected frame which is the second one, you can also click on the frame to see how it looks, im going to create another frame again and make my changes, and basically you need to repeat this process until you finish the composition īut If you have a large PSD that requires a lot of steps like this one it can be a tedious process of going back and forth with the mouse between clicking on the new frame button and making your changes in the layers panel that’s why I added a keyboard shortcut for create a new frame…that way I can go much faster and keep the mouse in the layers panel… and if you want to know how to add this keyboard shortcut go to edit keyboard shortcuts… How to make a GIF animation in Photoshop So this frame represents what is visible in the layers panel and what you see on the canvasĪnd if I make a change in the layers panel and hide all the groups you can see it updates in the first frame and basically what I want to do is hide everything and start from the very beginning and create the first frame So what we’re going to do is create an looping GIF animation that shows the process of putting together this image from the start to the end, and to learn How to make a GIF animation in Photoshop, we need to first show the timeline by going To window timelineįirst we need to create a frame animation by clicking on the create frame animation button and it will create the first frame for us, now yours might say create video timeline change it from the drop down to create Frame animation So this is the image that you were going to be working on, this is from a project that I did a while ago, if you wanna learn more about how I created this image click here In the following tutorial on making an animated GIF, i’ll be using the 2018 version of Photoshop, but the steps should be similar in other versions. Using an animated GIF is a great way to showcase your work and show the building process of it and that’s what i’m going to show you today, you’ll learn How to make a GIF animation in Photoshop by discovering how to use the timeline frame animation feature to create looping GIFs
