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Joe Kuzma
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June 20, 2012
Question

Looping options in Save for Web - Animated GIF

  • June 20, 2012
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I find this one rather annoying, in the latest verison of Adobe Photoshop CS6 when creating an animated GIF via the Save for Web dialog box; there is a looping option section that allows your animation to loop forever, or once...

In the previous version, it would remember which setting you selected for subsequent saves.  In this new version, it forgets it and always defaults to ONCE; where I want FOREVER... making me forget to check it sometimes, when I'm working fast; and create animations that stop after one loop...

Anyone else experience this annoyance?

-Joe

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Rae_Soul
Participant
January 9, 2018

Found a solution! Was driving me crazy as well. In the lower left of the timeline panel there is dropdown for looping options. Create an action changing this to "forever", then when you save for web it will stick. Save the action and batch the rest of your .gifs 

    artyoms48043616
    artyoms48043616
    Participant
    May 21, 2018

    Working from the butt, but working

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    KEMI_WI
    Participant
    July 21, 2016

    Anyone found a work around to this yet? How is it possible that there are settings available to select that just don't work...! Adobe this is a serious error in your programming! 

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      Pat481
      Known Participant
      April 20, 2016

      Still not fixed. I don't understand why 'once' is the default, anyway. I'd encourage adobe to run some analytics on how often people actually export gifs that only run once. Seems very rare, if it is the case very user hostile to have it as the default.

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        hrachmkrtumyan
        Participant
        January 16, 2020

        I see the problem is still actual, I am using adobe photoshop 2019 version, but the same problem still exists. Haven't you found a solution to this sproblem yet?

        Dave Hell
        Dave Hell
        Participating Frequently
        February 11, 2016

        Is this solved on the latest version? I'm running 2015.0.1 and it seems that nothing has changed.

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        kikikyky
        Participant
        October 21, 2015

        I figured out a work around for this issue. I needed to make 30 looping animated gifs of 1080p footage shrunkin down for the web and this is what my action looks like:

        1. resize the image
        2. click on the upper right drop down of the timeline window and select "flatten frames into clips" (this takes every video frame and turns it into a layer in the document)
        3. select the "video group" in your layers panel and delete it
        4. click on the upper right drop down of the timeline again but this time select "convert to frame animation
        5. click on the looping options in the lower left of the timeline window and select "forever"
        6. go to "save for web" and use your gif settings that you perfer.

        Now that we went through that process the animation type will be set to "forever" and it will apply to any videos in your batch that you automate.

        What the history of the action looked like

          Noel Carboni
          Noel Carboni
          Legend
          June 20, 2012

          Yes, I noticed it.  I can confirm what you're seeing.

          I make it a habit to test the animation, and when I see it stop it reminds me to change the option. 

          But like you when I do animations I virtually always want them to loop, and having the setting "stick" would be nice.

          -Noel

          c.pfaffenbichler
          Community Expert
          c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          June 20, 2012

          The setting seems to stick with an image, new images are assigned »once« – I guess a Feature Request might be called for

          http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/

          Noel Carboni
          Noel Carboni
          Legend
          June 20, 2012

          Seems like people shouldn't have to re-request features that were already features in the last version. 

          Either Adobe took the "stickyness" of that setting out on purpose, in which case I'd expect nothing more will be done, or they left it out accidentally with the restructuring of the Timeline window, in which case it would be a bug, no?

          But Christoph is right in either case - you can help ensure it is seen by posting it on the http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/ site.

          -Noel

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