make an animated GIF in Photoshop CS3?

multimoog

Is it possible to do this? Does anyone know of a simple way, or a simple tutorial?

flatlinegraphics

in ps, not really. in image ready, which is bundled with ps, yes. hit the button on the bottom of your tool bar that says "jump to imageready".


which should, well, jump you to imageready. from there, you can open the keyframe windows, and go from there. export to animated gif, done.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=imageready+animated+gif+tutorial&btnG=Google+Search

Mai-Kero

Actually ImageReady isn't even in CS3.

Photoshop is how you make gifs now.

Window > Animation.

Just go there, it's fairly intuitive.

Gafoto

It's interesting, I tried saving my av as a file, then opening it in CS3, only to find it cannot see all the different frames. Is there a special method for seeing all the frames?

flatlinegraphics

Mai-Kero wrote: »

Actually ImageReady isn't even in CS3.

Photoshop is how you make gifs now.

Window > Animation.

Just go there, it's fairly intuitive.

shows me for being cs2. is imageready gone?

Gafoto

Imageready should be bundled with CS2 as a separate application. They just combined its basic animation functions into Photoshop CS3. All of its other features are available and done better in Fireworks.

multimoog

Mai-Kero wrote: »

Actually ImageReady isn't even in CS3.

Photoshop is how you make gifs now.

Window > Animation.

Just go there, it's fairly intuitive.

Thanks for that first hint, but I'm not getting the 'intuitive' part. Is it possible to do some kind of onion-skin thing like in Flash? Not that I know much about current Flash either, I used a long-forgotten version years ago.

I've tried looking up some tutorials online, but I guess CS3 is still too new to have entry-level stuff. They all say 'start like you do in ImageReady', but I never used ImageReady. Um, so.... how do ya do it?

Gihgehls

If you were using image ready, you would create a layer for each frame of animation, then pick the first frame in the animation window and hide all layers but the first. Then select frame two and hide all the layers except the second one. Then the third and forth and so on.