![]() This shouldn’t be too surprising, since underneath, EPUBs are mostly HTML, and HTML web pages are a GIF’s natural habitat.īut the story is different outside of iBooks, like in Adobe Digital Editions, where I’ve seen GIFs play in fixed-layout EPUBs, but not in reflowable EPUBs. Sure enough, if you export to EPUB and view in iBooks, you’ll see the GIF play. Preview a spread with a placed GIF and it plays just fine in the panel. ![]() However, if you look in the EPUB Interactivity Preview panel, you get the first sign of where animated GIFs might work. (Image Import Options only gives you controls for color and transparency.) Since the file is not recognized as a video, the Media panel is empty, and you can’t assign a button action to play the GIF. When you place the file, all you get is a static image of the first frame. You can of course, place animated GIFs into your documents, but InDesign has (almost) no idea that the images are supposed to be animated. It’s not a topic that comes up very often, but on the chance that you may have a GIF or two that you want to use in a project, here’s the scoop. From here you name your GIF file, and save the GIF to your computer.I was once asked an interesting question about using animated GIFs in interactive documents exported from InDesign. It will open your default web browser and play a looping preview of your GIF. To check how it will turn out, click Preview in the bottom left corner. Under the “Preset” menu, select GIF 128 Dithered.Ĭhange your Colours setting to 256 (the max number for a GIF) for the highest quality GIF output. Next this menu that looks overwhelmingly complicated will appear. How to Export your GIFĬlick File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy)… When you have imported your video files into layers you can then move onto Exporting. Play around till you’re satisfied then click OK. Next step Photoshop will ask how many frames it should be importing. Simply click Selected Range Only and select the how much of the video you want using the slider below the video. First, click File > Import > Video Frames to Layers…Ī window will pop up asking how much of the video you’d like to import (I’d keep it short for small file sizes). Converting a video file into a GIFĬonverting a video into a GIF using Photoshop requires you to make layers out of the video frames. Remember to make sure that the Forever is selected in the drop down menu on the left, If this isn’t selected your GIF will only loop a finite number of times. You can click+drag these around to reorder them however you wish.Ĭlick the Play icon to see your frames in action – this is a preview of how your GIF will look once exported. Now the Timeline panel will show your animation frames in sequential order. Click on the hamburger menu and click Make Frames From Layers. In the top right of the “Timeline” panel you’ll see a hamburger icon. ![]() Turning your photo layers into a set of animation frames (where the magic happens) Click this and change it to Create Frame Animation. Under the Window menu, in the drop-down near the bottom click Timeline.Īn additional window will appear under the preview window: Click the arrow to the right of Create Video Timeline. Once happy with your selected images click the OK button. The ‘Load Layers’ screen will look like the picture below. Each of these photos will be one frame in your GIF. Open Photoshop and go to File > Scripts > Stack > Load Files into Stack Click Browse, choose the photos you want to use which will appear in your layers by Shift-clicking on the full list. You can download some sample assets to use for this tutorial here. You have the choice of using multiple images or using a video file (although I’d keep the video file small as possible). Photoshop is a great tool in creating GIFs. ![]() How to: Make an animated GIF in Adobe Photoshop
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