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How to Create an Animated .GIF in Photoshop CS5, CS6 & CC

Let’s say you have a folder full of images that you want to sequence together as frames in an animated GIF. You can find special programs online to do this, but with some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop, it’s quite fast and simple. Gather the images you want to animate into one folder. Click  File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack . When the “Load Layers” window pops up, click  Browse  to select & open your image files, and then click  OK . This should import the files you selected as individual layers in your document. Rearrange the layers into the correct order, if necessary. This next step differs depending on what version of Photoshop you have: For Photoshop CS5: Open the Animation palette ( Window > Animation ). For Photoshop CS6: Open the Timeline palette ( Window > Timeline  ). For Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud): Open the Timeline palette ( Window > Timeline  ). In the middle of the palette, you will see a button wit...