Instead, the animation function was integrated to the same software. I work on Photoshop CS3, so it doesn't have Image Ready anymore (meaning I can't even load all the caps as frames like it used to). But I rest my case that I prefer to make them with my technique cause it's less of a hassle, no need to convert the video file and I love my Cull tool (just imagine yourself having to delete every other frame out of 150? No thanks.) Now the Photoshop part, I perfectly know that one could make a gif solely on Photoshop. I kept mine on "Better Image Quality", but you can always change it to suits your need.Īnd then you just need to click "Next" until the window closes and your gif is ready! You can change the quality with the selector thingy at the left. If you're good with your changes, it's time to save the gif! Go to "File" > "Save As." On mine, I cropped the animation with the Crop tool, and resized it to 300px width. You can always preview the gif after each step to see how it evolves. Be sure to select all the frames concerned of this change. Which means we'll change how much time one frame will be visible. If you think the animation was too slow/fast, we can change the frame propriety. It will deleted frames according to what you want. If you think your gif is too detailed (meaning too many frames that look the same). All we have to do now is see if the gif is fast enough, etc. If you go to "View" > "Animation", you'll see the gif in action. Once everything has been loaded in the software, you should have a window with all the caps you made. And click "Next" until the window closes. Load the bunch of caps we made at the previous step. Just click "Next" until you have to choose the images. In Animation Shop, go to "File" > "Animation Wizard." This window will pop up: Now you have a handful of captures, we'll animate them! (Technically you won't need KMP anymore if you just want to make one gif, but if you have many moments to capture, just get to where you want and start again the Extration.) Once you're sure to have capped all the frames you need, you can stop the Extraction and Pause the video. On the Extract window, hit "Start".īack to the video, hit play and you should see the Extract window working its magic and putting all the caps in the folder to specified earlier. Put yourself a little earlier to be sure to have the whole thing. Go back to the video window, and find the moment you'd like to gif. I like to have all the caps, it's best to have a little more caps rather than a very jerky gif, right? ) And if there are indeed too many detailed frames, we'll fix that in the next step. Specify the destination folder for the captures and how you'd like the captures to be extracted. You should have the Capture menu after that. Note: If you don't have the Capture menu, go to "Options" > "Preferences", in the General tab, make sure "Use advanced menu" is ticked. Once you have loaded your file in KMP, right click anywhere on the video and go to "Capture" > "Frame: Extract." avi to work directly in photoshop (or extracts the caps in Virtual Dub), everything happens in KMP. So, instead of having to convert a file (.flv/mpg/mp4/3gp, etc) in. The excellent thing about KMPlayer, it's that it basically plays every type of file (at least it never failed me so far.) The only exception is that I've never managed to extract captures directly from a DVD, if anyone knows a fix, I'm interested! ) When prompted, select As Animation, then Export.I'll be making a gif out of this video, which I downloaded from youtube and I'll be working with the. If you're not happy, go back and try again. Once you're happy with the animation, export the image ( File > Export) and select GIF image (*.gif). Now a copy of your image will have opened in another window - the Animation Playback window.Ĭlick Play/Stop or step through the animation as required. To preview, select Filters > Animation > Playback. Write this number in parentheses followed by ms.įor example: (1500ms). Write the amount of milliseconds each layer is to appear in the animation. Open an image that you'd like to turn into an animated GIF.Īdd some text (or anything else you like) to the image.Įach layer represents a different frame in the animation, so be sure to add a new layer for each frame. I created the above animated GIF using layers. If you can't see the animation in this example, your browser may not support animated GIFs. While most browsers support animated GIFs, some don't.
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