How To Create An Animated Gif In Photoshop Cs5. Find a GIF off the internet and drag it into Photoshop and you will see the separate frames that make up the animation. You can use different images in frames but in different layers.
For Photoshop CS5. But this lesson only applies to Photoshop CS5 because it uses the new tool called Puppet Warp only in CS5. To begin making an animated GIF in Photoshop CS5 you can now launch Photoshop click File at the top of the window click New then set the size for your image.
To change that press the drop down arrow and choose Forever.
There are many ways to create a GIF but Photoshop is fast and easy with built-in tools for image manipulation and animating. In the middle of the palette you will see a button with a drop-down allowing you to choose either Create Video Timeline or Create Frame Animation. For Photoshop CS5. Choose GIF as the format from the top right side of the Save for Web dialog box.