Creating Images for Web, Video, and Interactive Use - Adobe Photoshop CC - page 268

In addition to the number of frames to add to the animation, the Tween menu gives you the ability to
choose which layers to include in your frames and which parameters to animate. As the default, all
layers and parameters are included.
14 Select all the frames of your animation by clicking the first frame, pressing and holding the Shift key,
and clicking the last frame.
15 With all your frames selected, click the value for Selects frame delay at the bottom of any frame and
select 0.5. Because all the frames are highlighted, the delay time of all your frames is adjusted.
Select 0.5 as the frame delay time.
16 Click the Play button ( ) at the bottom of the Animation panel to preview your animation. If your an-
imation continues to loop, press the Stop animation button ( ) (same location as the Play button) to stop
the animation.
As a default, your animation is set to replay over and over again. If you prefer to set the number of
times your animation plays, click and hold the text Forever that appears in the lower-left corner of
the animation panel and select Once, or choose Other to input a custom value.
17 Choose File > Save As. The Save As dialog box appears. Navigate to the ps13lessons folder and type
animation_done in the File name text field. Choose Photoshop from the Format drop-down menu and
click Save. Keep the file open for the next part of this lesson.
Saving an animated GIF
Now you will save the animation in a format that will recognize the frames and can be posted to the Web.
1 Choose File > Save for Web.
2 In the Save for Web dialog box, choose 2-up from the display tabs at the top of the dialog box. This al-
lows you to see the original image next to a preview of the optimized image.
3 Choose GIF 128 Dithered from the Preset drop-down menu. This is a good preset to use for an anima-
tion with multiple colors. It creates a good balance between file size and image quality.
4 Click the Preview button in the lower left to see a preview of the animated GIF. In your own projects,
this would be a good way to test your animation and then return to the Save for Web interface and make
adjustments. For now, just close the browser.