How to Open/Edit an animated gif in Photoshop CS4

Photoshop Quickies

Before Photoshop CS, animated gifs are opened and created through the associated program called Adobe ImageReady. I got used to this add on when I want to create random animated GIF pictures that when I made the jump to Photoshop CS4 I was so irritated that this program was gone! Everytime I try to open an animated gif file in CS4, all I get to see is the first frame. So I asked myself, "there's no way photoshop will remove this function from the program! It must be hidden somewhere!". So the eager beaver living under a rock in me searched the interwebs for that solution and can you believe it? It's right under my nose! I never thought it was easy!

So here is the quick step by step guide in Opening an animated gif in Photoshop CS4. 

1. Open Photoshop, then Click File -> Import ->Video Frames to Layers.

2. The File browser will pop up, and you will notice that on the File Type, it shows "Quick Time Movie". 

3. Disregard the File Type. Go to the folder where your animated gif is located, and type "*" to show all of the files inside that foler, or the name of the file on the "File Name:" box, then click "Load".

4. Once you click "Load", the "Import Video to Layers" box will pop up. By default, the choices will be "From Beginning to End" and "Make Frame Animation". You can tinker around with it, but for the purpose of this tidBeAT, we will leave it as it is.

 

5. Click OK, and there you have it! The file will show up in the photoshop timeline window.

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