
Even if your only ambition is to create a shareable GIF for your friends on social media, letting the size of your photos or video dictate the size of your document might make the file larger than you need it to be, which translates into a poor quality GIF. Step 1: Set up the dimensions and resolution of your Photoshop document Without further ado, here’s how to make an animated GIF in Photoshop. Learn how I made this GIF! Photo via graham wizardo. These frames are what we’re going to build in this tutorial in order to animate a killer banner ad GIF. Find a GIF off the internet and drag it into Photoshop, and you will see the separate frames that make up the animation. Just like classic animation, an animated GIF is made up of a series of still images played sequentially to create the illusion of movement. There are many ways to create a GIF, but Photoshop is fast and easy, with built-in tools for image manipulation and animating. To run the sample without debugging, press Ctrl+F5 or selectDebug > Start Without Debugging.A GIF, or “Graphics Interchange Format”, is a compressed image file format that allows for animation. To debug the sample and then run it, press F5 or select Debug > Start Debugging.

The next steps depend on whether you just want to deploy the sample or you want to both deploy and run it.

For more info on working with the ZIP file, Sure to unzip everything to access shared dependencies. Or you can download the entire collection as a single

You can download this sample as a standalone ZIP file Note: This sample is part of a large collection of UWP feature samples. Shows a basic implementation of an animated GIF, and how to control GIF playback.
