In this video, I'm going to show you how to export your gift. There are a few ways to export a gift. Because different platforms do require different formats. I'm going to show you a couple formats. The first method we'll see is how to export your gift as a gift. Once you have your finished animation and you're happy with it, you can come up here to file export, save for web legacy.
This is going to open up a box with a lot of options. The first thing wants to do is come up here on the right to preset and set that to give 120 dessert. My gift has a very limited color palette so I can bring my colors down over here to less than 120 for example 32 if you have a lot of colors or a lot of shading, it's better to keep it at 128 or even 256. You'll see all of the colors that you're using down here. 128 I think tends to work really well for what we're working with. So like I said in the beginning, gifts are always better when they're lighter, you can see the size of your gift down here below the preview.
Right now mine is at 114 K. If I wanted to make it smaller, I can decrease the image size. Instead of 1080. I can make it 800 by 800. And that will make it smaller, I can decrease the colors. And so all of this will keep your gift smaller, they really do not have to be large at all because they'll probably be the very small on the screen so it's not a problem. Make sure that down here under looping options, it says forever.
It should already be set to forever because we did that earlier. So once the size of your gift and all of these settings are okay, you can click Save. And you can save it to wherever you'd like. It should have the extension Gk save. If you preview your GIF by pressing spacebar, you can see that it works perfectly. It moves its loops, it's perfect.
If you drag your GIF into your web browser, that's another way to preview it. And it will also work perfectly. But if you open the actual file, you'll see it doesn't move, and it just opens as a sequence of frames. That's because of what we said before that it's basically a frame by frame animation. This kind of file works for posting on some social media. Facebook, for example, supports a GIF format, I will play your game exactly the way it is.
Instagram does not. If you want to export you have to post on Instagram, I suggest exporting it as a video. So I'm going to show you how to do that. Now. You can come back to your Photoshop file and go on Here to File, Export render video. This will also open up a box of options.
You can add a title, I'm going to write down video. And you can click on Select Folder to select where you want to save it to. And then you can click Render. It might take a little while depending on the size of your video. Since our gifts are small, it should be pretty fast. Here's the thing about videos.
This is going to be a very short video, which is completely fine for posting on your Instagram feed because it's going to loop anyway. But I'm just going to open it to show you guys it lasts one second. So that's really really fast. But let's say you want to post this video to your Instagram stories or you want to texted to someone, it's not gonna loop, it's just going to show as this one second long video. And this sucks, and it took me a very long time to figure it out. So I'm going to show you one of the one of the tactics that I use to make this video longer.
What I usually do is go back into our Photoshop file and duplicate these four original frames a few times, I usually go up to around 40 frames, you can do this by selecting all of your frames again. And then you can click the duplicate selected frames button as we've done before, and this is going to duplicate our frames. So you can do this a few times. They're already selected. So you just click it again and again. Again, I'm up to 40.
And I think that's okay, so now we can go back once again to file export Render video. And I'm going to say, give Skillshare longer and render. So now when you open up your new video, your longer video, it'll be a little longer, it's 12 seconds, which makes it a lot easier to see. And so when you send it to someone or you posted to Instagram stories or you posted to anywhere that won't automatically loop it, it'll be a lot longer. So now you wouldn't have to export a gift. And that's really all there is to creating a simple gift from an illustration.
Really excited to see all your class projects. And if you guys have any questions, feel free to send me a message and ask whatever you need. I'd also love any suggestions as to how to make my future classes better. So feel free to leave me a review or send me a message about that. You can find all my social media links in my profile. And if you guys can share your new gifts Mine, Carmela Calder.
Thank you so much for watching my class and I really hope you enjoyed it.