Simple GIF Animation - Photoshop Tutorial

[@sayalirane3231]

Bruh u r the most nicest teacher on the internet.

[@zimrimayfield]

Hey guys! This tutorial hopefully shows the very basics of animating with the video timeline in Photoshop! Hope it's useful to some, have a nice weekend : )

[@ishitachandra2261]

which shortcut key do you use to create key-frame after you tilted the body?

[@brittanywinston9227]

this is cool, .. is there a benefit to animation frame by frame in photoshop, to achieving this result in after effects ?

[@lilyjones2811]

Hey Zimri, how do I make a smart object break down into its individual components when transferring objects from Illustrator to Photoshop for this? I made objects in Illustrator to make into GIFS, but when I import them in Photoshop as a smart object it just clumps it all together. Also, what button do you push to get the second little placer on the timeline after you push the stopwatch? For example, at 2:13 after you pushed the stop watch you then moved his body to look downwards, then pushed another button to get the white little marker you see at 2

[@1notnilc]

​@@lilyjones2811- You need to drag each element of your object (that you want to animate) from illustrator to Photoshop. This will bring them in on separate layers in your Photoshop document. For example. A head, body, the arms and a background each on individual layers. For the placer. You just mouse click where you want it. Hope you don't mind me jumping in! :)

[@clemencemira2533]

you're so fun! thank you!

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

So much you can do with loops. The principles are good for limited animation or music videos too.

[@danielraygoza9110]

This is me every time I do a GIF I just have fun with it and it flows a lot better, lovely tutorials DO IT AGAIN BOOOOOOOOM XD !!!! I Love me some donuts

heeeey! I really loved who you explained and how fun you are!! super entertaining and useful! big thanks

[@dentdelions]

your voice and the way you deliver is so fun... thank u

[@merylsigaton2938]

this tutorial was legit fun! thank youuu for enjoying 'cause we did too

[@sisan881]

Great tutorial! Learned a lot! Can't stop smiling - you must have had a great time making it 🤗 😄 👏

[@DiegoMendezMessias]

man! this tutorial was very funny and usefull hahaha. The spontanious "mistakes" were the best, cause thats happen in real life: sometimes you are designin and stranger things happens to you and you dont know why or how

[@garyofdonny]

Once I got the hang of selecting/making smart objects - even though I had smart objects in place - this has made better sense. Great, thank you.

[@Kudoobs]

I’ve never laughed so hard watching a tutorial!

[@catieclapper6079]

this is the funniest informational tutorial i have watched LOL

[@dimensanikay]

Can you please show us how to save the animation. I’m getting a lot of difficulty while doing that

[@aaronfree8825]

This guy is hilarious and helpful. This is an amazing tutorial!!!

[@cassandrafountaine9857]

This is a great tutorial! I'm just getting started with animating and after watching this I'm super excited.Thank you!

[@topjimmythe1]

Awesome! Super easy to follow along and taught in regular-guy speech!

[@mikesheehan5946]

Superb as usual. I always enjoy your tutorials and had no idea photoshop could do this... Reminds me of the stickman animations I used to make in Macromedia Flash with tweens!

[@zimrimayfield]

Hey Mike! haha yesss! I'm sure those stick figures were epic : )

[@Armin-Academy]

Your tutorial has added to the best Photoshop tips playlist so far in our channel, well done! 👈✅ 👌⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@Artbyvidhya]

This was really very helpful. Gonna go try on my Illustration.

[@madonnaj4197]

This is By Far! The best tutorial I have seen on this topic. Would you be open to creating one on Insta stories? Like how to animate text with accompanying images. Would love to learn how to create a basic template etc. tutorial on

[@zimrimayfield]

Hey! aww I appreciate that! : ) That would be an interesting idea! : ) I'll definitely think about it, thanks for leaving the comment, you're awesome!

[@girlychams]

I would watch this!!

[@PhilTravisano]

I don't usually say things like this, but when you got excited at the end about all those donuts, I said, "This guy is so high!" Munchie animation! ... I don't really believe that, though. Nice work.

[@DragonFireTwin]

I love your tutorial 😍👏👏👏

[@johnsmith-sq1kn]

very nice tutorial. Thanks you.

[@adamalsen3881]

Hillarious and helpful... Thanks man... How about exporting into a file size suitable for a website???

[@jaseylove]

That's so dope! Learned a bunch of stuff(s) there - thanks.

[@zimrimayfield]

Yayyy! That's so great to hear : D

[@lilyjones2811]

Hey Zimri, how do I make a smart object break down into its individual components when transferring objects from Illustrator to Photoshop for this? I made objects in Illustrator to make into GIFS, but when I import them in Photoshop as a smart object it just clumps it all together. Also, what button do you push to get the second little placer on the timeline after you push the stopwatch? For example, at 2:13 after you pushed the stop watch you then moved his body to look downwards, then pushed another button to get the white little marker you see at 2:18.

[@zimrimayfield]

Hey Lily :) yeah okay this is what I would do. It might be time intensive and annoying to copy and paste every separate piece from illustrator into photoshop then position them correctly, so instead I would: save your illustrator file as a .psd. If you didn’t know you could do this it’s very helpful. In illustrator, go File > Export > Export as. Then choose photoshop (psd) from the options. Then make sure the “write layers” option is on, so your stuff doesn’t get flattened into one layer. Then you can open the saved file in photoshop. If all your elements were on different layers in illustrator then they will also be on different layers when opened in photoshop. Then go through and convert your layers into smart objects. There may be a faster or easier way to accomplish the goal, but I’d have to look into it more :))) lemme know if it works or you find a better solution :D

[@lilyjones2811]

@@zimrimayfield Thank you for your response! Unfortunately I have tried this as well. For some reason it keeps grouping each individual thing I make (I have 5 fish on an illustrator artboard). It recognizes them as separate fish, but won't break down these layers any further, even after ungrouping them.

[@DominikSusila]

Very cool design Zimri! I like it a lot!

[@rjohnson5301]

Thanks for this video! Definitely helped me for my future project of a small video promotion clip!

[@cjlorenzdimalaluan6083]

love your energy!!!

[@magicksecrets]

yeeesss!! finally new video and this topic i really wanted to learn! Thank you so much, Zimri!

[@zimrimayfield]

Yayy! haha you're welcome, i'm glad this one was useful!! : D

[@Heartshackles]

Thank you, this helps me!

[@rojanshrestha5103]

That was very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to make such a detailed tutorial. :)

[@zimrimayfield]

Heya Rojan! You're welcome man, i'm glad you found it useful!

[@rojanshrestha5103]

Could you please do more tutorials on infographics? It would be very helpful. Thanks!

[@sinthujanvinacithamby1901]

is there a tutorial for cutting the images first before animating them ?

[@medessunnymedsaleme7176]

The problem is how to save it as a GIF, Thank you the video was really helpful!

[@carlosfernandes1441]

Render it first in Adobe Media Encoder and automatically it will be saved as a gif in it's specified AME folder. Later you can open it in photoshop and export it to save for web, saving for web will reduce the file size.

[@yokensin7244]

Hi Zimri, cool tutorial! Btw, can you also teach how to export it to Animation Gif?

[@MrFisharoo]

choose file/export/save for web (legacy).. top right second box select gif, bottom right looping options select 'forever'. (shortcut cmd+option+shift+s for mac, ctrl+alt+shift+s for pc)

[@anosjc]

yeah he should have explained that

[@nadia.szegecs]

6:54!!!!! 😂🤣🤣🤣 Then 7:04 "So now what happens next is the donuts' need to come flying out! 😁🤓🍩" hahaha!

[@MrsDellamar]

Great tutorial!

[@zofa_rf]

thank you soo much I followed along your tutorial and tried making hair move and it was pretty fluid and nice!

[@agitoart4961]

dude this is a great tutorial thanks

[@ATLaracheClub]

That was very informative, as well as fun! Had a grin on my face at the end, haha. 😁

[@kevinchaiken4253]

Are you able to use Illustrator instead of Photoshop?

[@shandy_6733]

I looking for this tutorial !! Thanks for the tip ur video esay to understand

[@3JBCel]

I like your tutorial.. i needed this for creating background for my blog.. thank you man, more power

[@saimun847]

Awesome ..... :) Love to see ....

[@Elizabeth-vq6mb]

This was INCREDIBLY helpful, thanks so much!

[@subarulovesyoutoo4388]

When I want to learn Blender, they teach you how to make a donut. When I want to learn how to animate in PS, they teach me how to fly a donut. Donut everywhere.

[@samlaunders]

This video made me super happy! Cheers dude :)

[@jeffre4395]

Very useful tutorial, thanks a lot

[@artedigitaluniverso]

Very cool 💪

[@tienshing1199]

Hi Zim! May I know where can I get the icons?

[@aminroopranjit]

This is such a cool tutorial! Learnt so many cool things! :) Thank you Zimri!

[@ponethone]

Thank you! This was so much fun! I also learned a lot.😂

[@tatianam.5530]

how can I anti alias with this method? my lines looks all jaggy after I transform it(

[@danielsibianul]

Thanks that was super helpful!

[@sanpls]

Nice gif creation

[@aarond9563]

This is why I don't do animation. It took me like a week to do a 10 second animation haha. But yes this was incredibly helpful.

[@gonzalocruz380]

Your tutorials are really amazing! Greetings form Mexico City.

[@angelicationgson4785]

You deserve more views 💕💕 You're amaaziiinggg

[@StraightToWeb]

Super helpful! I think this is the clearest I've found on keyframing animations in PS. Stay weird!

[@zimrimayfield]

Heyy Dustin, thanks man - i'm glad it came across clearly : ) Lol i'll try : P

[@lachauntiswashington231]

thank you so much for this

[@felicitasfalke]

You are so funny!! Nice animation! 🤗

[@tzeearn]

Love thiss

[@kawther7786]

soo useful! thank you for this amazing tutorial! :)

[@zimrimayfield]

awwwww yeah! You're welcome, i'm glad it was useful!

[@kimisalim3670]

My photoshop version is cs5 and i have a problem with converting it to smart object. I dont know why but eventhough i converted it the option transform wont appear can you help me with this?

[@nb08]

Yeah, this was needed so much. Thanks Zim

[@zimrimayfield]

You're welcome Nishant! GLad it was helpful to you : )

[@candicebell9752]

is there any way you can help me - I keep getting an unknown error after I save - Adobe says update to latest CC version which I have done - twice - same error. can save gif, but can render a video - but some platforms need gif not video... I was able to do the gif last week based on your awesome tutorial. thanks

[@Ivory_Schmetterling]

It's so much like the animation process in After Effects (kinda, I guess???) Great tutorial Zim! :)

[@zimrimayfield]

Heyyy yes, it's very similar - it seems like it's much harder to make a smoother motion though - I don't think there's an automatic "easy-ease" you could apply to the motion like in after effects : P

[@acejamelo6227]

Heeeey ZIMRIIIII!! Thanks for the tutorials! You're my insipiration! Keep up keeping up!

[@FloatingM]

if i try to render as video it just shows me loading aero so i need to do web(legacy) help !

[@Desktopgremlins-papercraft]

What about the SAVING aspect of this? How big was that GIF when you saved it? A lot of times if you are doing an animated GIF for a client, where it will be shown has some sort of FILE SIZE limit. Does this animation save as like a tween? Or does it convert to frames and then bloat up file size?

[@uulili]

I found a solution: File - Export - Save for Web(Legacy), then at the popup window, change the preset to GIF and click save, you'll get the gif file. I believe there're much more settings to control the size in the popup window as well.

[@sumonsarkar03]

great man.

[@moniquecatubig]

how do you export it?

[@valerieklosky5559]

any way to get these files....I would like to try this activity with students

[@haiellan.8886]

idk but the way you made this tutorial turned me on hahahahah

[@SLMAGICSbudveenjenul]

how to save this gif

[@OliverGomez1138]

I had no idea David Spade was so good at making PS tutorials!

[@skywalkr90]

When i press play why does the quality go to shit? Is there a way to change that

[@mil6879]

im creating a pixel like this and mine is bluring out i dont know why

[@ImARainbowLlama]

Love your energy ahah

[@shubhammishra7922]

you are the best sir

[@mananpatel9800]

kindly share the link of this photo

[@RetArm]

I know this video is old and you probably already know this by now. You can drag the anchor point on the lid and it will rotate on the axis that you set it to when you rotate it.

[@alamba78]

What's the best way to save this file as an animated gif?

[@mamaggisuwek1527]

save for web

[@Turtlenaide]

I learned so much

[@aidenhill4265]

Thank you this video was amazballs

[@citraaprilia6652]

i love ur video! but i dont have the same timeline as yours i dont know why, it's only frame by frame timeline... help please?

[@zimrimayfield]

Hi Citra! Thank youu : ) Okay, when you open the "Time Line" window you can click on a button next to where it says "Create Frame Animation" and click a little drop down and select the other video timeline option. Go to 0:29 in the video : ) I hope that helps, or maybe you figured it out already! Thanks : )

[@citraaprilia6652]

Thanks for your reply! but there still no such options like that, maybe because i'm not using the extended version of photoshop? (i'm using the CS6 version) and couldn't figure it out how to make it to extended version :(

[@israelbhc]

what's your photoshop version? is it a old version?

[@camilalau5477]

This was awesome! You're so funny

[@psk1461]

The dooonutzz!!

[@jorj1758]

Im doing the exact same as you but my object doesn't move smoothly

[@TheScottiem303]

might help to show how to export the file . . .

[@bhuwnanaik3425]

this tutorial was fun...😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👌i loved it... i had fun while learning... you are awsm 😜✌

[@ilyaqudryavtsev]

BUT HOW TO SAVE FILE???? I save as usual - but it is no animation in the gif ?????

[@rzor84]

Great tutorial, i hope you get them donuts!

[@123dodo4]

how to safe it as gif?

[@ea-jv3zw]

hey did you illustrate this on ps?

[@zimrimayfield]

Yes sir :) all done in the shop photo :D thanks for the question !

[@warangproduction9759]

How do we upload to fb??

[@zimrimayfield]

Hey just go "save for web" - then select the GIF file type : )

[@mennareda9511]

so good and creative! but I think the guy doesn't surprised enough

[@zimrimayfield]

haha yeah - he could have had a more exaggerated surprise!

[@mennareda9511]

yeah, maybe step back or fall on the ground but I think you meant a simple tut. I really wanna thank you for teaching us a lot and like your comedy scent haha.

[@PinkCoffie]

Gosh you are so funny 😂😂 😂Thanks for the tut, super handy! 👌

[@shonuDhamey]

How come the guy didn't react to the flying donuts... ? Great tutorial altogether.

[@Cinephiles_inc]

2019 ?