Click the File menu and select Import. Click Video Frames to Layers. Select the video and click Load.
If you have a high frame rate video (over 60 frames per second) then check “Limit to Every [x] frames” and type a number in place of ‘x’. This will select every xth frame which will make conversion faster and image size lower (and lower quality) by dividing frame rate by ‘x’. You would want a frame rate of around 15-30.
Check the time of the animation as shown on the screenshot at the right. Bigger numbers means slower animations that run less smoothly.
Click the File menu and choose Save for Web & Devices. Change the setting to “GIF” to make sure it’s animated. Click Preview to make sure everything looks right. If you want to change anything, you can always click Cancel to go back to Photoshop. The settings in the GIF menu apply compression. A lower file size will load faster in a browser but may look bad. GIF compresses by throwing away colors as you can see if you experiment with the settings. It’s useful to choose 2 up on the upper tabs of the save for web dialog box. This allows a view of “before and after” and includes a preview with a file size. If everything looks fine, click Save. Fill in the file name and save it.
