making GIfs?

[iAsuno]

i would like to know how to make gifs from videos and what are the best programs to use.

[ZetZet]

http://gfycat.com/

[Z3G]

The mighty Adobe Photoshop.

[Feronix]

Personally I use PhotoShop:

 

1 - Record/ download a video

2 - In PhotoShop: File > Import > Video frames to layers

3 - Enable the timeline in PhotoShop: Window > Timeline

 

Now you can select a frame in the timeline. This should mean that only layer 1 is visible when frame 1 is selected. When you move to frame 2, layer 1 will be hidden and layer 2 will become visible.

This way you can edit every frame individually, but you can also use shift to select multiple frames at ones and for instance add a new layer (above all other layers) with text for example, so that that will be visible on all selected frames.

 

When you are done editing:

 

4 - File > Save for web 

5 - Select 'Optimized' in the top left

6 - Make sure you've got the maximum amount of colours selected and that transparency is enabled.

7 - Resize the image if needed (GIFs can become quite large file sizes, not supported by every upload option).

8 - Click 'Save...' and save the file accordingly

 

Hope this helps  

[iAsuno]

thanks guys. i will look into these.