How to convert videos into animated gifs

GIFs are fun shapes and increasingly popular mode of expression on the Internet. What many people don't know is that creating these animated images is very simple and can be quickly made from videos in various formats using Adobe Photoshop . To learn how to create your own GIFs and share them with your friends, follow the step-by-step of how to do it quickly on your computer.

In this tutorial you will use Photoshop CC 2014 that supports the following formats:. 264, 3GP, 3GPP, AVC, AVI, F4V, FLV, MOV (Quicktime), MPE, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 (if the specific codec is on your computer), MTS and.MXF, R3D, TS, VOB.

Step 1. With Adobe Photoshop 2014 CC file, click import and click the video frame for a layer ';

Step 2. Choose your video and click 'OK'. In the next box, select the 'Only selected range' option;

Step 3. At the bottom of the adjusted video the range you want to convert to GIF by dragging the cursor down to the start and end point, hit 'Ok' to confirm;

Step 4. The video should open as an image;

Step 5. Go to the file and click save for Web;

Step 6. The size of the whole gif will be and choose the option 'always' in the options 'loop' so that your Gif is repeated several times and then click on accept to export the image;

Step 7. Choose the gif option you want. Note that the more colors your gif has, the heavier the file will be;

Ready! With this method you can create numerous GIFs of all the videos you want. Now, just post the image online or open it in a browser to see it in action and on the move.