How to: Make an animated GIF from a video

Making an animated gif is not as hard as it looks to do this you’re going to need a few things. The first thing  you’re going to need is Photoshop. In my tutorial I’ll be using Photoshop CS4.  Next you’re going to need a video of some sort and you’re going to need QuickTime player for testing purposes.  Also some Photoshop knoledge would be helpful.

1. You’re going to need to find out if your video will play in QuickTime. Why you ask? Well Photoshop uses QuickTime as its video player if your video won’t play in QuickTime then you may need a codec for it or  the file might be a proprietary format (i.e., avi, wmp). In that case you will most likely need to convert the video to a .mov. I’ll explain how to do that in a later post. (more…)