Creating Animated Gifs & Videos in Photoshop

Photoshop CC MasterClass: Be a Creative Professional Animated Gifs & Video editing in Photoshop
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Now let's say we are creating that advertising campaign for Nike. And we already created the design before, maybe for indoor war posters or even billboards. And now we need to take our ads online as well maybe as web ads, those banner ads that you see online. So maybe you can be converting also our ad into animated GIF or something like that. Let me select our first frame. And it's looking like them to attract or is even better, or even can be converting that one into a video ad, maybe for YouTube ads or TV ads.

So let me step forward. Here we have a video version from the same one, including audio so let me increase on a bit so you can hear better. This could be quite glitchy, but let me show you how it works. So it can be selecting First frame. So that could be a very short video ad for five seconds, maybe for YouTube videos. Anyway, let me undo that.

And let's see how we can be creating that one from scratch. So selecting that file in here, which is our B is defined that we already designed before. So I'm not going to be going through technicals, how to redesign that file, how to do that effect. You can see that one if you haven't in the course. And in order to animate our design, we need to be switching to motion workspace by going to Window workspace and you need to be selecting motion. Or you can be selecting timeline panel if you would like to have your timeline appearing.

So let me zoom out a bit first. Command A minus or Ctrl minus to zoom out. So here we have in that drop down you can be selecting either to create Video Timeline, or create frame animation, which we'll be creating later gift points, including symbol animations. So selecting that one and clicking that button in here, create frame animation, selecting that first frame and clicking duplicate frame. So we have now a duplicate from the same frame in here we can be making some changes to our second frame, which will be creating animation within our zone. So maybe you can be hiding some layers in our first frame, and keep them as they are in our second frame.

All can be transforming and scaling or elements. Maybe for instance, we can be starting with a smaller background size in that frame and scaling that one up in the second frame. We'll be creating a zoom illusion or animation within our GIF file. However, now let's say we need to be creating that new clip effect within that warm glow. So I'm going to be duplicating that layer in here, Command G, after selecting my layer, or Ctrl G. Now we have a duplicate of that layer, I'm going to be disabling second duplicated layer, and selecting or original layer, D saturating that one Command Shift U, the moving to our second frame, and enabling our duplicated layer. Now we can check how it looks like by playing that animation, clicking play animation.

Now it's looking like that and it's too fast, and it's too glitchy as well. Of course, if you like it like that, you can go and export that file or save it for web. However, let's work on our animation even better, so we can go even further clicking stop and we can be pressing Shift, selecting our two frames, then clicking the pose on here for creating tweens animation frames. So if we click that one it will be adding in between frames to give us a smoother transition between our frames. You can add tween with selection like our that case we are selecting our frames, or four previous frame or next frame. And also you can select how many frames you would like to add in between four layers, we're gonna select all layers and parameters, we're gonna keep it as this pressing OK, now we have a transition between our frames if we believe that one, it's looking like that.

Now it's looking better however, we can work on our last cream. So I'm going to stop that one. And underneath each frame, you can see the seconds in here and that drop down button where we can keep that one playing for two seconds. And all those trains will be going very fast. And now we can be blamed That again, then it's gonna be repeated. Let's make it even only one second play.

So it's gonna be stopping at the end for one second, then it's gonna be looped and you can be selecting from here, whether you would like to be loving that one forever or three times or only once, or even you can be customizing a specific number. However, now we can be adding even more frames to maybe show like blue like noon, so I can be selecting that frames Tobin's animation and clicking that button once again. Now we have a duplicate of the frame that will be played for one second and that one as well. However, we can be hiding blue wood in here and searching for life. heaters also need to be Hoping that the saturated layer then we can be duplicating that one once again and hiding like and showing you earlier. So let's give it a play.

You can go with that if you'd like even to add some glitches to your known effect, you can easily do that by first stopping or animations and here we have that frame in here glow fully lighted one we can be duplicating that frame and place it after our very first frame and keep it to one millisecond. Then we can duplicate that one once again and make it after that one so you can imagine how it looks like by bleeding or animation once again. You can Keep repeating the same step by duplicating those two frames to get some glitches at the very beginning of your animation, just like that one in here if we play that one. Now let's say we are happy with that animation or need to be exporting that one can go to File, Export, then selecting safe forward, you can be exporting as as well.

However, I'm going to be selecting safe forward as we have better options in here. Zooming out a bit, we also need to make sure that we have a small file size as it's going to be uploaded online. So it can be scaling that one down 50% and let's zoom in. Also, make sure that you are selecting GIF presets from him not jpg, so that your file can be including animation and you have some controls for Quality so you can be using your file size and also reducing quality for your job. So you can be using colors for instance, or you can go as low C we have low c zero now you can be making it less like that. It's so grainy and noisy.

However, let's keep it at zero. And also here we have looping options set to forever and you can bleed in here to check your animation. Or you can be reviewing that one by clicking review. We have thousand pixels in width. And also we have file size as well. Also bear in mind that we have slightly long animation.

So this one is also affecting our file size. Maybe you can make that one shorter for smaller file size. You're going after a high compression of your phone back to Photoshop again, we can be saving that one. Here we have the option to save that one as images only, or HTML and images. And I prefer save it like that. Then clicking Save.

Now let's go and check that one. Here we have images folder. And also we have HTML file. Saved outside in here. If we scroll down, you can see that file by double clicking. So here's one more thing to do is our Jeff we can go back to our file, and of course we can be saving that one as well as be as defined.

And we have here some other options for our timeline, like adding new frame, lead frame, delete animation, or you can be Copying frames as well in here, all can be reversing frames. And also you can be optimizing your animation a bit by clicking that one for better musician of your file, or you can be flattened frames into layers or even create a new layer for each new frame. However, now we are selecting new layers visible in old frames, and also can be converting to Video Timeline instead of frames. And by selecting that one, we can be adding seven to our GIF or our video in that case. As you can see here, we have our layers, both each other's and we have also audio track at the very bottom where we can be adding audio track and audio or we can be adding more tracks. So let's start first by adding audio.

Hey, we have that glitch sound effect, which might be matching with our ads. And as you can see guys that we have our audio file exceeding Layers time as we have 30 frames per second and total time for that animation will be almost two seconds. Of course, we can be extending our layers too much or audio length, or we can be reducing our audio file length. However, I'm going to be reducing that one from here as that glitch effect is existing at the end of our track, maybe even more now we can be playing that one. Once again. Of course guys here we have too many files within our PSD file, which might be too much for Photoshop to handle the timeline as Photoshop is not mainly for video editing.

So this could be quite too much for Photoshop to handle. And if I want to add sounds or special effects to use animated layers, probably I will do so in Adobe premiere for editing videos, and maybe adding some graphics and effects to our video using Adobe After Effects. So now in order to export our video file, we can be clicking that button here to render video or we can do so by going to File Export then we have render video as well which is going to give us these options in here for name and it can be selecting folder or creating a new subfolder. However, what's really important here is selecting our format and we need to clip it to h2 six four to create mp4 video file and preset we're gonna keep it as this on high quality you can be reducing quality or selecting from other presets, maybe YouTube 10 ATV, you'll want to use that one on YouTube you can be selecting that preset.

However guys before you select that preset, make sure that you will find the dimension as well as thin ADB 1080 pixels for height or 1920 pixels for width, or otherwise it's not going to be matching your presets dimensions. So let's give it as high quality for now. And we have range for our rendering either to render all frames, or you can be starting from some frames to end the frames. And now let's render our video file. So let's check that one out. Here we have our file.

So that's basically guys how we can be creating animation within Adobe Photoshop has it could be very nice to use all these capabilities of Photoshop and utilize them within animated file or video file.

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