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willh72108750
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January 24, 2018
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Working on a GIF animation - Photoshop 2017.

  • January 24, 2018
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I have 169 frames in the timeline, I want to export half of the animation only, without deleting the rest of the frames. In other words I want to "export selected frames as a GIF". I have spent hours looking for a way without luck. I know it could be done as I had done it a couple of months ago. The project is a loading bar which will need to be exported as GIF in segments.

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Correct answer willh72108750

You only need 10 frames.   100 frames would be excessive.

If this is for the web or an app, JavaScript is the best way to do this.

How TO JS Progress Bar

If you're married to doing it the hard way,  your original PSD should contain all frames.

Your 2nd PSD will contain only those frames you need for the 2nd project.

Your 3rd PSD will contain only those frames needed for the 3rd project and so on...


Thank you for the help. I found exactly what I wanted. If anyone wants to accomplish what I'm talking about here what i did. I simply switched from frame animation to video time line and changed the work area to exactly how many frames I wanted to export and "save for web(legacy)" as GIF.

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
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January 24, 2018

Go to File > SaveAs > new-filename.psd 

Remove unwanted frames.  Ctrl+S to save.

When your animation project is done, go to File > Export > Save for Web  (Legacy) > GIF.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
willh72108750
Participant
January 24, 2018

Thank you for the reply but I need a way to do this without deleting unwanted frames. The project is a loading bar that loads from 1% to 100%. I need to make 100 GIFs out of it, so i need to export in the following manner:

0% to 1%

0% to 2%

0% to 3%

and so on to

0% to 100%

So I need to select several frames from the timeline and export them.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 25, 2018

You only need 10 frames.   100 frames would be excessive.

If this is for the web or an app, JavaScript is the best way to do this.

How TO JS Progress Bar

If you're married to doing it the hard way,  your original PSD should contain all frames.

Your 2nd PSD will contain only those frames you need for the 2nd project.

Your 3rd PSD will contain only those frames needed for the 3rd project and so on...

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert