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Go to "Image" and click on "Crop." This will crop unnecessary space from the picture and will lay focus on your subject of the animation.You generally want to choose half the dimensions of the original GIF. It's recommended that you pick out the right size as doing otherwise could make your GIF look odd. To do this go to "Image," then "Image Size" and choose the new dimensions. This will reduce the image to only the that was highlighted as your area of focus. Make a selection on the section you want to focus on. Go to the "Rectangle marquee tool" on the upper left of the left toolbar.Go the bottom left on the animation frames and check "Forever." This will ensure you that the animation will loop forever.Bigger numbers means slower animations that run less smoothly. Check the time of the animation as shown on the screenshot at the right.Remember that if the amount of frames is low, the size will be smaller and it will take less time to load when you post it on a website. This is also the time to add any new frames. Go to the animation area and trim any unnecessary frames until your animation is looking the way you want it.You would want a frame rate of around 15-30. This will select every 'x'th frame which will make conversion faster and image size lower (and lower quality) by dividing frame rate by 'x'.If you have a high frame rate video (over 60 frames per second) then check "Limit to Every frames" and type a number in place of 'x'.
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#Open gif in photoshop cs5 mac
Mac users do this by going to going to Finder->Applications->Photoshop CS5->Photoshop CS5 right click and select get info. Once you're in Photoshop, go to "File" and then "Import." Click on "Video Frames to Layers" (This can only be done in Photoshop version CS5 (32 bits) or newer versions.