So this is going to be my lil tutorial on how to make gifs in Photoshop CS6. I hope I explain this throughouly and if y'all have any questions or answers please let me know. Well alright, let's get started!

• Make Sure You have Photoshop lol

• Open up Photoshop and then once opened, hover your mouse over 'File' and then once the menu drops down, hover over 'Import' and click on 'Video Frames To Layers
  

• Once you done that step, go to the folder or wherever you downloaded your video and double click on your video and it'll then open in Photostop

• When the video is open (I'm using the iconic, best video of 2014, 'Break Free' by Ari. make sure to set the lil button on Selected Range Only & Make Frame Animation. DO NOT put a check mark where it says "Limit To" because it will ruin your gif, make it slower than it should be, and skip frames.
  

• Now watch the video and select the parts you want to gif by using the little arrow lookin things at the bottom of the screen. You have to use this because if now you'll get one long ass scene & Photoshop will have a literal stroke and be even more difficult to use lol. Once you've selected your favorite part, press 'OK' and it'll open in your Photoshop
  

• Now your photoshop will look like this
  

• Before I start anything however, i change the gif speed at the bottom (the number that says 0.04). I don't know why but one time I didn't change the time and just left it like that, & my gif was horrible. So ever since then I changed it. To change it, select all the frames in 'Timeline' and to the right click on the little bracket and click on "Select Frame Delay" and change the time. Now you don't have to do this but I do so it's whatever lol. I changed it to "0.01" and then leave it. (Once I finish the gif I'll change it back to 0.04 lol)
  

• Now delete all the unnecessary frames you don't want by click on them and selecting "Delete". Once you've finished that, you'll now have all the frames you want to gif.
  

• Now the semi-fun part lol, I'm going to cry out the black bars the video has on the top & bottom & also any space i don't want in the gif. To do this I will go to the square shape on the left column and select the space in the gif i want and then hover on the 'Image' bar at the top of Photoshop and select 'Crop' and your gif will be cropped the way you want it.
  
  
  

• So I'm almost done lol. Now, your going to hover over 'Image' again and click on Image size. Once you've clicked on that, it's going to show you the size of your gif. Now most gifs should have a width of 500, 245, 160, or whatever you want it to be. The height truly doesn't matter lol. But for this gif I'll make the width 500 and leave the height the way it is and then there you go, your basically done with your gif lol. (also once you've done this, don't forget to make your gif speed back to 0.04 or whichever speed you'd like. For me, the best speeds are 0.04, 0.05, and 0.06.)
  
  

• Now most people on here just want quick lil gifs and don't bother sharpening or coloring them, so they'll have them whatever. So if your one of those people (no judging), then all you have to do is save your gif (i'll show you my settings in which i save my gif as) and your done. your gif without sharpening or coloring will come out to look like this
  

• Now if your fine with this, then awesome! You've now made your first gif and it wasn't hard or stress worthy at all lol. But me, I don't like it like that. SO I'm going to use a sharpening action and a psd i made to liven the gif up a little bit and make ariana look extra great. with sharpening and psd, my finished gif now looks like this
  

• So whenever you finish your gif, make sure to save it using these settings. These are the best settings to save your gif as since they make your gif look great and not all pixely and gross. And then your 100% done with your gif.
  

I hope this helped y'all and this somewhat all made sense lol.
Now you know how to make gifs in Photoshop CS6!

YOU DID IT

sis can you zoom out the last picture ! please and thank you for this it helped so much !

Great tutorial. Bless you for posting this since plenty aren't aware of how to do it. Luckily I learned years ago (from Katie ) and have it pretty much memorized in my head.

But waiT the 2nd version of that gif slays I need some tips of how to make my gifs/avis better quality like that. I know how to sharpen though mine never seem to come out as HQ.

how many gigs does this need I have 8.5 left and when Im done with the first step Im doing to 5 MB and I can't do any other actions

I did lol! I hope it made sense and if you any questions please let me know. it took me a while but i did it lol.

omg my bad, i just did! is that better?
& omg no problem! anytime (: xx

omg thank you so much! that's seriously wonderful for you to say omg
& really? i legit just taught myself somehow and here i am lmao

sometimes i forget tho and i'll just sit there staring at photoshop like ".... what the hell is this?" and then i'll remember again lmao

& oohh thank you again love! what tips do you mean exactly? it's honestly just depends on the quality of your video. if you have 720 & 1080, then your perfectly fine. 1080 makes everything easier cause the sharpening looks extra HD and detailed on it tbh.
& wait really? hmmm that's weird lol. i'm sure yours are still great though! just might be the video quality or maybe coloring sometimes. it takes me HOURS to color a gif cause if i **** up i start all over from scratch

not many tbh! photoshop itself is 1.29 GB and the videos (music videos mostly) are barely 200MB and as soon as your finish your gif make sure to delete it or save it on somewhere like imgur or something so your computer won't be dying on you lol. & wait you can't do any other actions?

& also another thing that's important that's kinda relevant, download CC Cleaner. it's a application that cleans out your computer and restores you alot of your gigs you probably lost from photoshop or anything else you use on your computer. it's free too btw!

I just downloaded it today lol but thank you sis :3 Ill try to save it then open it again to sharpen it/etc

omg thank you hun! i hope it helps lol.

& oohhh hmmm, okay i see your point! what type of sharpening do you use? because if you use those sharpenings that require you to convert your frames into a smart object then yeah it's gonna be difficult as hell (well for me it was difficult as hell) lol.

for this, use this sharpening action xxx

i used it for the ariana gif in the OP and every gif i make. its the best sharpening action ever tbh and it's hella simple and i 110% GUARANTEE you won't have trouble changing the time. if you do please let me know and i'll make it more detailed if you need me too dear xx

really? haha alright and no problem hun! if you keep getting problems then screenshot them and we can try to solve this case together lol

yassssssssssssssssssssssss sis ! I think I just need a disk with more space. I have only 119GB and I play games and everything ;-;

really? i've been having this messy ass PC computer for almost 4 years and i still have 638 GB left and i don't have no ****ing clue how since i have so much music and other stuff on here

i was gonna download the SIMS when you mention games but my gigs gonna be gone for sure if that happens girl

omg haha no problem again! (i might sound like a broken record but seriously this is so amazing your understanding it and im helping so literally anytime im here to answer your questions and help) lol.

& omg no!
with the action, your going to do this (lemme make this almost a tutorial part 2 haha)

your going to go to this button, then go to the folder you saved your action in, open it, and then your action will be here. once its in there, press play and it'll sharpen your frames one by one and then once it comes to this window, press "STOP" and then your done lol.




i hope that made sense? if not i can explain it more slower if you need me too?

Thanks for this! Will defs be referencing this when I get some free time to actually learn how to PS/make gifs ((and all those poor souls in the gif request thread can rest )

Cheers

Great job!

Thank you so much bb!

omg your welcome! anytime & i'm so glad your gonna use this and it helped
your gonna make amazing gifs i know it! & lmao for sure, they can do it themselves now haha

no problem loves and thank y'all so much! y'all are too amazing seriously

lmao really? well glad i made it then haha!

& oh! all you have to do is once you crop them, go to your image size and type in 125 for the width first and hopefully if cropped correctly it will say 125 for the height as well so their both equal.

most of the time when it'll be like 125 and then some number like 119 and in that case, just keep cropping until you reach 125 x 125 lol. like that, your gifs don't look weird and they look as great as you wanted them to be

Thank you so much for this!

My issue is though that whenever i resize the gif it loses a lot of its quality