interactivity in animated GIF files

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March 7, 2022
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I would like to add more interactivity to some of my animated GIF files created in Photoshop. Is there a way to add action buttons to individual frames (e.g., start over, pause/hold)? Would this be possible with JPEG sequences (if not with Animated GIFs)? Thanks!

--Arjun

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ArjunDIUT

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Thank you all for your very thoughtful responses. I have actually overseen a solution that was at my fingertips but I did realize that Joomla had made improvements in this area without having to create a separate Joomla article for PDFs. I am glad that now that I am past this part, I can improve other areas of the site and cut down on unnecessary content. Best wishes,

--Arjun

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Test Screen Name

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To clarify, perhaps, the reason people are suggesting other things: Animated GIF is a simple collection of pictures. There is no place inside it to put interactivity or links, just like they can't have sound. So you'd really be looking for some other thing that can play pictures (which could be GIF or other things), and give you the interactive stuff. If this is for a regular web site, this could work. If you want it, for example, in Facebook, it won't work because they just take the original GIF and play it.

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ArjunDIUT

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Thanks, @Test Screen Name . Yes, animated GIFs could be used for a series of related images (multi-page documents, images of objects with multiple views, etc.). For the most, I can set the timing for each frame and most GIFs will be just fine. I have no intention of bringing them into social media but I can add a link to these pages in--for example--FB. and let viewers follow the link to the site and view the images there. What I would be interested is in image formats with addd interactivity so they can be viewed on the website but withing the architecture of the Joomla CMS. PDFs offer that, but I am trying to minimize the need to navigate around just for another article in Joomla. Thanks! -- Arjun

Myra Ferguson

Community Expert

You could convert the Animated GIF into a video from within Photoshop by converting it to a video timeline and rendering the video:

Save and export video and animations

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Arjun-DI-UTAuthor

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Thank you, Myra.

Yes, your suggestion would be ideal for animations, but I would like to find a solution to use a single image file containing a handful images of historical/archival documents where time (0.1 sec, 2 sec, 15 sec, etc.) is not a factor if the end-user can click or hover over (not an option in handheld devices) a page while reading it. The video will not work here, as it may stop over a fuzzy transition or tween. It has to be a frame with an unambiguous image. Unfortunely, the timeline feature in Photoshop does not offer that for each frame, so I am looking at other image formats such as jpeg sequences or APNGs and see what they offer. Animated GIFs may be a dead-end street for my purposes, but thanks for the suggestion again! --Arjun

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Maybe have a look at Adobe Animate, a much better tool for this kind of thing.

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