Comments on: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and no Image Ready? No animated GIF’s either?

By: Adobe Photoshop CS4: Still no animated GIFs? Part III – Ian Hoar – Passion for Technology – Geeking Out

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:07:08 +0000

[...] so how is one supposed to open animated GIFs in all this mess. A couple of years back I wrote a work around for opening animated GIF’s in Photoshop in a windows environment. I later followed up with a more detailed description on how to do [...]

By: Naper

Naper — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:53:43 +0000

I discovered a good solution on Macs for Photoshop CS3.

1 – Open the gif file on the Preview. This will open all the frames in diferent images.

2 – Drag all images (tiffs usualy) into a folder.

3 – Then open them in Photoshop.

Of couse that this is for those who want to work with a small number of frames or just one frame of one specific gif animation.

Good Work!

By: Akili

Akili — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:59:03 +0000

THANKS!!!! I almost reinstalled CS and Imageready! I wish I had seen this about 3 hours ago! Take this hand shake,right shoulder bump combo..lol

By: minty

minty — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:03:59 +0000

No wonder i can’t find imageready.

Now i got the problem with sue. I see blank layers.

Any idea how to solve it?

By: Adobe Photoshop CS4 release date and wish list - Ian Hoar – Passion for Technology – Geeking Out

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:11:32 +0000

[...] missed this feature is then it should definitely be added to CS4. My most visited article is still Adobe Photoshop CS3 and no Image Ready? No animated GIFs either?. For some odd reason Adobe decided to move a lot of the Image Ready features into Photoshop before [...]

By: Terry Upton

Terry Upton — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:52:16 +0000

Exellent!!! Exactly what I was looking for.

Many Thanks Ian.

By: Gron

Gron — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:09:35 +0000

Thank you! Luckily I came upon this thread. I was just about to write a ‘dirty’ letter to Adobe. After purchasing CS3 extended for such an amount I was truelly unhappy finding no way to import the GIFs as layers into Photoshop.

This helped. Can’t believe they would have the function in the program and not a direct way of accessing it. Surely they could have added it into the ‘Open’ function.

By: G Charpentier

G Charpentier — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:57:03 +0000

Go to windows/animation do all the animation with your layers then go to file/save for the web choose GIF save it. Just drag it in to your browser and VOILA!!!!

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:08:02 +0000

Totally agree Don. I hope they put the functionality back. What bothers me is the functionality is obviously there, they have just removed the capability to easily use it.

By: Don Modarelli

Don Modarelli — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:58:08 +0000

Hey Guys,
I just found out that animating GIF images has been removed from CS3 and moved to one of the other applications within the CS3 suite – Fireworks.
Who has the time to let another Adobe bloatware application to load to do something that Elements used to do just fine? I have the whole suite, but I don’t care to learn it all!