Make an animated GIF easily and simply in Photoshop

If you think that Adobe Photoshop is just a powerful photo editing software, you are wrong because what it brings is more than that. We will guide you how to create an animated picture with Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop is the most famous graphic design software today. It not only is a powerful tool for editing photos but also enables you to create animated pictures most simply so that you can use them as the banner for your Website.

Step 1: Open Adobe Photoshop. You can create a new image file by clicking File, then New or press Ctrl +N

Enter necessary parameters for the new image file (optional):

- Name: File name
- Width: The width of the image
- Height: The height of the image
- Background Contents: The background color of the image

Click OK to save settings.

Step 2: Select the Text tool to create a new Text file. For example, Type "Tai"

Next, to create the 2nd Text file, type "mien" next to the first file.

For the 3d Text file, type "phi" next to the second one.

And finally, for the 4th Text file, type ".vn".

Note: You are free to type the number of letters, select color, font and font size.

Now, at the layer frame, we have 4 Text files and 1 background file in total.

Step 3: Open Animation by clicking Windows on the toolbar, (if your computer uses Photoshop 10.0 and later) or press Ctrl+Shift+M to open Image Ready (if your computer uses Photoshop 9.0 and earlier).

Step 4: To create 4 frames for 4 Text files, click “Duplicate selected frames” (on the left of the trash icon)

Create 4 frames corresponding to 4 Text files by clicking that tool 4 times.

So we have 5 frames in total including one for the background file and 4 for 4 Text files.

Step 5: Open frame by frame by closing 4 eye icons in the Layer frame

Coming to the 2nd frame, open the eye icon of the 2nd text file, from the bottom up.

Then to the 3rd frame

The 4th frame

Finally the 5th frame

Step 6: Next, you just need adjust time so that frames appear one by one by clicking on the "black inverted triangle" and selecting time for each Frame.

Here we  will select the 0.5s duration. the Forever mode so that the image file runs forever.

Click Play to see the result

Step7: Save file by clicking File on the toolbar, then clickSave for Webs & Devices or press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S

A dialog box appears, select the GIF format in the Preset part. At the Loop Options part, select the loop mode for the animated picture : Once (if you want to repeat it once ) or Forever (repeat forever).

Click Save to save the animated picture.

Here is the result of the newly created animated picture.

On this article, we have just guided you how to create an animated picture simply with a Text file. You can create animated image files with photos by doing the same. After this article, you will know that Adobe Photoshop is not only a software forediting photos but it can also create animated pictures easily.