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Make animated GIFs with Photoshop and InDesign - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
Make animated GIFs with Photoshop and InDesign
- [Tutor] Check out this animated GIF I made, or GIF whatever you'd like. I'm calling it a GIF. Pretty cool. How did I do that? In some fancy software? No, of course I used InDesign. I'm going to show you how you can make animated GIFs in InDesign and Photoshop. So simple. So let's check it out. Here in InDesign I've created five pages of a GIF that I want to make. So each one of these pages is a frame. It could be an ad, it could be something for Facebook or TikTok, whatever supports animated GIFs, even emails, okay? So of course, because I'm using InDesign I used a master page with stuff that's going to be the same on every frame and then I just added text and here I'm working on a promotion for some free webinars, right? So that's all and I made it about the same dimensions that I needed the square. Now, what you do is after you've created your artwork in InDesign, then you export each page to a JPEG. So go to…
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The good, the bad, and the perplexing of InDesign Cloud documents8m 35s
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Find and use free InDesign templates in Adobe Stock5m 51s
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