1. Making animated GIFs and mantras
Make It Move Like Jagger

2. objectives When you finish this activity, you will be able to:
Create an animated GIF
Determine what your personal mantra is (more on this later)
Use your Photoshop skills to communicate your mantra to your classmates

3. What are they? GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format
You’ve seen them everywhere – webpages, blogs, tweets, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, etc.
GIFs can be funny, one-line responses for all kinds of web conversations - tweets and text windows are filled with GIFs, often accompanied by very little context

4. How to do it Hit ESC on your keyboard to leave Slide Show mode
Pick your favorite image below and right-click on it
Click Save As Picture and save to your H drive under Photo Journalism >Animated GIFs (this is a new folder that you need to create)
Open the image you saved from the new folder and create four different versions of this picture in Photoshop. Save each one separately as a JPG in the new folder and name them Arrow1, Arrow2, etc.
Change each one a bit and imagine them appearing in a moving sequence one at a time

5. How to do it
Go to File > New and create a composition that is 4 in tall x 4 in wide
Open each image you created individually and cut and paste each one into your new composition - Photoshop will create a new layer for each picture
Arrange the images on the composition so that when they become animated, they will flow nicely
Save as a PSD file as [last name] GIF Test in the Photo Journalism >Animated GIFs folder you created earlier
Double click on the Background Layer in the Layers window to unlock it
Click Okay when prompted to change the background to Layer 0

6. How to do it
Go to Window>Timeline to turn on the animation window below
Click the arrow to the right of the button in the middle of the window that just popped up at the bottom
It will be set to Create Video Timeline – change it to Create Frame Animation
Now press the Create Frame Animation button you just selected
Click the button at the right upper corner of the window you are working in - select Make Frames From Layers

7. How to do it It should look like this:
18. If it doesn’t, you are in Timeline View and you need to go back to the previous slide(s) and follow the directions exactly

8. How to do it
Adjust the timing on each frame to your desired length by highlighting each frame and clicking on the dropdown menu:

9. How to do it
Select the number of times your animation will loop by changing this setting:

10. Ready to preview? File>Save (to save your PSD file again)
File>Save for Web
You can preview it within this menu by clicking on the Play button

11. Do you love it? If you do, click Save on the same menu
Be sure to save your original file as a PSD if you need to make changes later
If you don’t, hit Cancel and make your changes now

12. What can do you do with your file?
You can use it in PowerPoint files
You can use it on your website
You can use it in your signature
You can use it as your Twitter avatar
You can use it on Tumblr or Instagram

13. Assignment: my mantra
A mantra has many definitions, but a common one is a series of words that speak to you, or words you live by
Your mantra may be something your grandfather or an aunt used to say
It may be something you always tell yourself when you’re getting psyched up
Whoever the source and whatever the use, your mantra is very personal to you

14. Assignment: my mantra Requirements:
640 pixels by 480 pixels
Create in Photoshop
It must have a background that is not white
It must have at least five different layers
It must use an animated GIF you create
It must contain your own personal mantra (create text box in Photoshop and start typing – do not cut and paste from Word)
Label the file [your last name] Mantra Animated GIF [class period] save to your H drive and submit to Mr. Nigrelli via Google Drive by the end of class on Friday, January 20th