What is a GIF?

(Placeholder for information about a GIF or Graphics Interchange Format)

How to Create a GIF in Photoshop

Or how to create a brief, silent, looping sequence of stills that MOVES.

1. Collect your images and place in a folder on your desktop. For this example, I used about a 10 second clip of video and saved it to a Folder named “Pachyman GIF” (after the artist portrayed.)
2. Open up Photoshop.
3. Click on Open Desktop App in upper right.
4. Go To: FILE/Default Photoshop Size/CREATE
5. Look below project window and it should say “Create Frame Animation”. (Placeholder for Table – “IF NOT”)
6. Go To: FILE/IMPORT/VIDEO FRAMES TO LAYERS.
7. Select your Video from your desktop folder and Click “OK” Your screen should look like this:
<img src="https://moveanima.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/layers-1.jpg"width=400
8. PLAY with your individual frames that are now individual layers!
9. For my example, every few frames I clicked on a frame to load it into the editor, CLICKED on it and then CLICKED “Remove Background”. This will remove some of the background leaving a white grid. It looks like this
   <img src="https://moveanima.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img_1618-2.jpg"width=400class="wrap-left&quot;