During the last couple of weeks I needed to refer back to this lecture that we had at the start of this project on how to create gifs using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects. So I collected some notes in this lecture and I used them whilst creating my gifs. These notes were very effective when creating my gif.
Creating a gif using Adobe Photoshop
- Bring in files to photoshop (the ones you want for your animation)
- Make sure to number the files in order
- Click on window and timeline
- Make frames from layers, icon on right hand side
- Change the settings to forever loop, on left hand side at bottom
- Select all frames, copy frame and paste after selection
- Reserve Frames
- Select down bottom menu to change length
- No delay for stop motion animation
- Image size; don’t go over 1000 pixels
- File, export, save for web and check review window
Creating a gif using Adobe After Effects
- Use photoshop for cutting out unwanted parts
- Create your strip on Photoshop before bringing it into After Effects
- Use video from Photoshop and still images
- Preview, to change loop
- Chose timeline
- File, export and add to render queue
- Render as video on After Effects and open in Photoshop as frames
- File, import, video frames to layers in Photoshop
- Select from beginning to end, frame animation
- Loop Forever
- File, export, save for web.
- Don’t go over 2gb for file size
- Looping options: Forever
I used both of these processes when making my gif and I found them very helpful. So I will be using them again when creating a gif or cinemagraph.
Abbie Fothergill 