# PhotoshopElements

# About animated GIFs

Animated GIFs create the illusion of movement by displaying a sequence of images, or frames, over time. Photoshop Elements provides a powerful, easy way to create animated GIFs from a multiple-layer image.

To create an animated GIF file, you work with layers. Each layer becomes a frame when Photoshop Elements generates an optimized animation. The animated GIFs are compiled into an RGB color document.

You can open an existing animated GIF file using the Open command. For each frame in the file, Photoshop Elements creates a layer. To view a specific frame in the document window, make the layer for that frame visible in the Layers palette, and hide other layers.

Images in separate layers can be sequenced together to create an animation.

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- Understanding layers
- Preview an animation

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