How to make a simple animated gif banner using frames in Photoshop

By Jim Jamesson on November 16th, 2008 | Posted in Photoshop Tutorials | Permalink

Back some time ago, someone recommended that I make a tutorial on animating gif’s using Photoshop. Well, after much procrastinating, I give you the Photoshopper’s guide to making animated gif banners in Photoshop, at the expense of other people.

What the frig are we gonna animate?

Before we can make something animate, we need to figure out what it is we want to animate. Lucky for you, I’ve taken the liberty to come up with a fun idea, and actually have all the imagery premade for your convenience. You can download everything for this tutorial here.

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