HOW TO CREATE ANIMATED GIFs IN PHOTOSHOP | Wedding Photography Tips

In this Photoshop tutorial I'll show you how to create and share animated GIFs! I will guide you step by step so you can use your own wedding photography to make memorable moving images. We will go over how to export in both GIF format and Mp4 video format so you can share them on your own website or post them to instagram!
I would LOVE to see the GIFs that you create from this tutorial, so please feel free to share a link to your work in the comments section.
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[@JessWoodhouse]

Ask me any of your GIF questions here and share your work!

[@nicoleashleyphotography9347]

Hey Jess! Thanks for sharing this! I'm wondering if you use presets on the files first and export them to a folder in high res before starting the photoshop process?

[@JessWoodhouse]

@@nicoleashleyphotography9347 Hey Nicole! Good Question - These photos have been edited and I've exported them from Lightroom at 1600px wide - then I bring them into Photoshop. As you probably noticed, using the full res images can take up all of your computer's memory. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching :)

[@sitasilva2233]

Great video, very easy to follow but for some reason when I go to export my animated gif and select Gif128 the quality of my photo looks terrible it changes the quality drastically. How can I prevent this from happening? Original file was 4,000 px and trying to save to 1000px

[@hannabanaszak6513]

hello! I tried to follow your steps, but the final result is, that pictures are in much worse quality and some colours are totally changed :( could you please say, if you saw the same with your gifs? Thank you!

[@Gumlia25]

I've watched a few different videos about creating and exporting a gif and your video is the best one that actually gives two different options and how the settings should be, THANK YOU!

[@ellisapp9654]

Thank you for this! Just spent 1 hour creating my first Gif. Your video was the easiest to follow that I found.

[@tiffanyandcoryburks936]

thank you so much...i've been trying to figure out how to make a gif to post to social media and you are the ONLY person who has fully explained how to do so!!!

[@stagedancesing]

I use this video every time I need to make a gif and it’s SO helpful! Thank you!!

[@heyvivian]

omg thank you! this vid is exactly what i was looking for: a simple and concise gif tutorial 😊

[@charliechives]

Easily the best tute for this that I've found. Thank you!

[@simsi73horseL0verCastle6rower]

THank you!!! it was so helpful

[@josephzaiger9532]

This is by far the best tutorial for Instagram formatting gifs. Thank you!!

[@avwgroup6653]

short and clear. Perfect tutorial for armatures . Thank you for Auckland, New Zealand

[@buidoi72]

Best video on creating GIFs! Thank you!

[@kenbower7594]

Nicely done. Thanks for the info!

[@gypsybeach6282]

thanks so much for sharing! been wanting to learn this, and happy I found your video :)

[@ezrangan-woo247]

Made it so simple! Thank you

[@katelynforward]

super helpful!!! blesssss your soul

[@lovekitphotography943]

Awesome video. So easy to follow with the best instructions. Thank you

[@vivianhogue9140]

Your video was so helpful and made this process so easy for me! thank you!! Literally made my first one in 10 minutes, your video was so easy to understand as well! Great job!

[@rachelmorris4907]

Thank you so much for sharing! This is such a useful tip and so easy to follow. Definitely subscribed. I look forward to more videos! :)

[@crystalward8618]

Here to also say thank you! You saved me a huge headache. Subscribed and excited to see more of your content!

[@soniagil8984]

Thanks Jess, very good tutorial!

[@Opfas08]

Thank you SO Much for this!!! Amazing :)

[@steveedwards9379]

Thank you for making this so easy to understand and simple to do. This is by far the BEST explanation I've seen on this subject!

[@kayladorsey5674]

This was so helpful!!! Thank you :)

[@gregtuco1]

Excellent!!!

[@junnypiggy]

Thank you this is super helpful for what I need!

[@IsraellSD]

Thank you so much I’m so happy that I find this video🤩

[@nickilievski9885]

Thank you! Perfect video.

[@mothercook9436]

Great tutorial! I'm going to try this tomorrow and I'll come back to you 😊😊 Thanks!!

[@egyptianfaro]

AMAZING Video!!!! Thank youuuuu xox

[@Jay-xh7xq]

Thank you so much 🙏🏼

[@RahuldeCunha]

Thanks Jess, that was really helpful :)

[@kponly]

Thanks!!

[@coreyapotter]

Go Jess go! So glad you're making YT videos. Just subscribed!

[@JessWoodhouse]

Thanks Corey! We are all going to be famous!

[@konceptmediastudios3949]

Great job 👏

[@dallaspierce988]

Thank You!

[@lisarutledge2404]

Hi Jess. I've never been able to understand any other tutorial. This is a great one thoguh. Easy to follow and you don't skip any of the steps. I couldn't make the video though....don't know why. The rendering took forever. So I made the file size way smaller but same thing happened. Never finished rendering. I'm happy enough with the gif though.

[@yunusbayram6081]

Very nice video. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@treagenkierstudios4335]

Very Consice. Thanks

[@bhaibaldeep]

Thanks much - I just made my first Gif!

[@nicwarner2351]

Super helpful! Thanks 😊I saw at some point the creator of .gifs talk about how to pronounce it. It is in fact pronounced jiff 😅

[@takeitphoto7052]

This video is the best. Thank you! What size do you recommend to export photos for gifs? (to avoid huge files)

[@denisseromero3651]

Thank you so much

[@jessylfk2]

Hi Jess!! Question, do you have a tutorial or can you do one on how to string multiple gifs together to make a stop motion video?

[@heatherflorance1402]

Hey Jess thank you so much! I’m having a problem with cropping that I hope you can help with. When I try to crop them one at a time, it’s applying the crop to every single photo. What do I need to do to crop each photo individually like you’ve done here please?

[@hansandroxeselopementandwe6893]

How about the size? I have done some gif but I want to include them in a blog post but there are so heavy. Normally I use 1500px for blog post. TIA

[@megcornell4783]

Hey! Was wondering how you get the video to Instagram once you have saved it to your desktop? Thanks!

[@Yeldarb1960]

Are you able to use PSD files or does it require only JPG files.

[@TheLovebug91]

On the save for video option I didn’t have render video on my export que. How can I add that to function?

[@lunaweddings1362]

hi!! amazing video ! can you share your image sizing from Lightroom ? thanks

[@JessWoodhouse]

Thanks! It totally depends on where you'd like to display the gif /video. For my website I export at 1600px wide and for instagram I export the Mp4 in 1080p. Hope that helps!

[@amykelley982]

Hello! I tried air dropping the mp4 to my iphone however its asked me to save it to my files and when I go in to view it on my phone, it just gives me a blank screen and doesn't allow me to save to my photos. Any idea how to fix this?

[@phoebe1491]

This is great, but I'm wondering how you get it from your computer to Instagram? I don't have an iPhone so dropping it to my device isn't an option. Would love to know what you do!

[@jhonatancajaiba3318]

Legend in Português, pleas. I need for before

[@maxinelagarde1964]

Hello, This vedio is great! However, I am unable to export as a video, just an sequence of images. Any idea why?

[@pennylane3201]

This was very cool, thank you. I have a couple l questions if you don’t mind please ........ is it .gif for Facebook and mp4 for insta ? Also do you just air drop the file to your phone and upload from there or does it have to be done on a desktop for Facebook ? Any info would be appreciated. Thank you

[@JessWoodhouse]

Hey! First, yes I just use airdrop or if you have a PC you can email the file to yourself. I use mp4 files when posting to instagram because insta will automatically loop the video as long as it is more than 3 seconds. For facebook you can post a video as well, but I'm not sure if you can upload GIF files directly to your facebook feed - but it's something to try! I use GIF files when posting to my blog and website.

[@pennylane3201]

Jess Woodhouse hi Jess, thanks heaps for the reply. I will try the .gif thing over the next week. When you air drop it to your phone or iPad does it just go into your “photos” and just upload from there ? Also when making the .gif do you start with high res .jpeg files or smaller ones ? Or does it even matter ? Lol sorry question overload ☺️

[@JessWoodhouse]

@@pennylane3201 Hey! If it's a GIF file you will have to save it to a folder on your computer. If you save as a video file it will save in "photos". And yes, I resize the high res images to about 1600px wide. This make the files significantly smaller and will allow you to edit multiple files within Photoshop. I know if I try this process with multiple full res photos - my computer would definitely slow WAYYYY down or crash. Let me know if you have any other questions and I'd love to see your final work!

[@pennylane3201]

Jess Woodhouse awesome ! Thank you ! I can’t wait to try this. Do you know If you can load a .gif as your Facebook business page photo?

[@caitlynswithers1482]

hi! Whenever I try this, it combines all of the images into a super wonky spliced up image. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?! Thanks!!

[@stephanieargueta910]

I am trying to render video but for some reason my photoshop on Mac does not show render video option only render image sequence. Help 😩

[@lifeoftorresmotherhoodlife4106]

I have the same issue.

[@peterdixon6179]

Wish I had found this years ago lol

[@dylan-howell]

What kind of computer is that?

[@JessWoodhouse]

A Razer! It's super duper fast!

[@blaisegauba]

The problem I am having is that ALL of my animation frames ALL look like the FIRST layer in my stack, even though ALL of my layers are sequential in the layer stack and all look different from each other. Why do all the animation frames look like the ONE layer that has the "EYE" icon on my LAYERS tool? This is driving me crazy. No matter which layer in the LAYERS pallet are selected, then THAT layer shows up all the way across the ANIMATION (FRAMES) pallet. What the heck is going on here? Thank you for ANY help you can offer.

[@egyptianfaro]

Hii! When I try to export Video Render, it takes forever and doesnt export. Im just able to save it for Web. Im tryign to save it for IG. HELP!!!

[@JessWoodhouse]

Hi Erin! Question: are you working with Full-Size images? When I'm creating gifs/videos in photoshop I typically use images that are resized to 1600px wide. When I tried to work with full size images my computer would fail to export as well.

[@egyptianfaro]

@@JessWoodhouse Thank you for your quick response. I do yes when I export it to PS from Lightroom, but I do change the size of the image on PS exactly the same steps you did on PS. Should I just change the size from Lightroom 1st before I open them on PS?

[@JessWoodhouse]

@@egyptianfaro Hi Erin! Yes, You should export the images from lightroom at the smaller size first, before opening them in the stack in PS. I rewatched and realized I didn't make that clear.. like at all! Hope that fixes the problem!

[@egyptianfaro]

@@JessWoodhouse thank you for your respond. I tried exporting them in a lower quality but still not working. Is it possible to get the same numbers ur using. 1. Quality of image 2. And the amount of megapixel please. Thanl u so much

[@shannonrowell3987]

@@egyptianfaro me too! I used small images and it's hanging on exporting video. Been hours now.

[@radrank9463]

it's pronounced gif!

[@JessWoodhouse]

YES!!

[@ProfessorStone]

Suggestion, get a separate Mic, we can hear all your clicks and taps, really distracting. Good info though! :)