Do this...1) In Photoshop, open up your photos, and then copy them all onto a new document, placing each of them onto separate layers. 2) Click Window > Animation3) On the lower right hand side of the box that pops up, you'll see an icon that looks like a film strip. (If you hover over it, you'll see the words pop up "Convert To Frame Animation."). Click On that. This will bring up the old Image Ready version of frame-by-frame animation that used to come packaged with Photoshop. 4) At the bottom of the row you'll see an icon that looks like peeled paper on one of the frames (if you hover over it, it reads "Duplicates Selected Frames"). Click on that for as many frames as you have pictures. If you have ten pictures, click on it ten times. You'll see the same picture in all ten frames. That's fine. 5) Your layers palette should be open already. If it's not, click on Window > Layers. 6) Select your first frame, then click all of the 'eyes' off on your layers palette EXCEPT the one on the very top layer. You'll see all of the layers in your animation change to this top layer image. This is the default in Photoshop. 7) Select the next frame in your animation by clicking on it with your mouse. Once it's selected, go back to your layers palette again, and turn off the top eyeball, and activate the next layer down. 8) Repeat step 7 over until you have all of your frames completed and all of your layers accounted for. If you need extra frames, just click the 'duplicate selected frame' button again after you reach the last frame and it will add an additional one for you. To take frames out, just highlight and delete them.9) You'll see a button that reads "Once" at the very beginning of the animation timeline. Click on that and select 'forever' to create a looping animation. 10) To save your animation for the internet, Click "Control+Alt+Shift+S" at the same time or "File > Save for Web. Select "Gif." Remember, with Gifs, you're dealing with 256 colors only - so your photo will be compromised anyway, but I've always found that 256 Perceptual with No Dither works nice (although depending on your height and width attributes, you may end up with a larger file size). Hope this helps!
