Designing Animated GIF Banners in Photoshop

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by Martin Perhiniak

August 22, 2014

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Photoshop is a very versatile application. It is well known for its photo manipulation capabilities but it is less known that it can be used for creating video and frame animations as well. In this tutorial I will walk you through the steps needed to create trendy GIF animations. This format is the best suited for simple web banners. Let’s get started!

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Martin Perhiniak

Martin Perhiniak is a Certified Adobe Design Master and Instructor. He was voted to be one of the top 10 Adobe instructors in the world by student feedback in 2015. In his online courses besides the technical knowledge you need, Martin will also teach you a lot about design principles, compositional techniques and plenty of best practices that he picked up and developed while working as a designer and retoucher on projects such as Pixar’s Cars and Toy Story, BBC’s Dr Who or Mattel’s Team Hot Wheels. He feels it his mission to share his insights of the design industry and its latest trends with beginners and creative professionals around the World.

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