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When making a GIF, your aim is to keep the GIF as short as possible, whilst including everything you want to be seen. The limit for GIFs on Tumblr is 1.75MB.
Step one: When your video, in file format .MOV (you can convert clips at clipconverter), it is ready to be imported into Photoshop. To do this, go to file>import>video frames to layers. The window labelled 2. on the picture below will come up.
Step two: Click selected range only, then hold down shift as you drag the slider to where you want to GIF. The part you select will show up grey. You can also limit to every 2 frames to make the GIF smaller, but I don't recommend it as it affects the smoothness of the GIF.
Step three: At the bottom of the screen you should see the animation toolbar. If not, go to window, then click animation. Delete all the frames you don't want to appear from the animation toolbar.
The timing should already be set. For most videos it is either 0.03 or 0.04 seconds per frame.
Optional—Adding text:


The final step is to click the button, next to where it says "unify", with the little icon with an f on it. This will unify the effect you added to the text to every frame of the GIF.

If you need to make a GIF smaller, change the size, amount of colours, or increase the web snap. It may seem hard from this tutorial, but after a little practice, it's super easy!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, thanks for reading!
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