How to make Photos into a GIF – Learn how I make my photos come to life

STEP ONE: Prep Your Images

• Using Adobe Lightroom, choose the series of photos you want to use for your gif. For this tutorial, I chose a 1×1 crop, although any ratio will work.

• Apply the crop you chose to to all your photos. Do this by: command+a -once they re all selected, select sync. (Pictured below)

• Select Crop, straighten angle and Aspect ratio should also be selected. Then click synchronize.

• Now that all your photos are cropped the same, export them to your desktop Settings for web: 2400px long @72ppi)

STEP TWO: Creating your GIF in photoshop

• Open photoshop
• Select the first photo in your series of exported photos

• Drag and drop your photo onto your photoshop app on your desktop.

• Now your photoshop canvas is automatically the size of the image.
• Go to Window and select Timeline

• Click: Create Video Timeline

• Drag the red curser to the end of your first clip on the timeline.

• Then click the plus icon to the right of the timeline strip 

• Navigate to your folder of cropped images, and select all the photos except the first image you opened in photoshop. Click open

• Now all your images should be loaded onto the timeline. 
• Next, “Convert to frame animation” by click the three boxes in the lower left of your photoshop window

• Select all the thumbnails on the timeline so they are highlighted

• Make sure that forever is selected

• change the first thumbnails time by clicking the arrow next to 5 sec.

• In dropdown, Choose .01 seconds, or the amount of time you want between frame. 

• Press play to make sure you like the tempo

STEP THREE: Exporting your GIF

• Go to: File/ Export / Save for Web

• (Note this what I have found to work for me, I know there are tons of great ways to save a gif) 
• Copy these settings, also pictured below):
  • GIF
  • Colors: 256
  • Dither: 100%
  • Looping options: Forever

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