From the course: Motion Graphics Loops: 1 Photoshop Techniques

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Saving as an animated GIF with a transparent background

Saving as an animated GIF with a transparent background

From the course: Motion Graphics Loops: 1 Photoshop Techniques

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Saving as an animated GIF with a transparent background

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- [Voiceover] I'm going to hit the space bar to start playback, and see that we've got ourselves an adorable looping animation here. And guess what? We need to share it with the world. And we need to provide the world with the least amount of effort possible to watch this animation loop in all its glory, all over the World Wide Web. Therefore, we will export this as an infinitely looping animated "jiff" or GIF, however you prefer to pronounce it. I won't hassle you. Let's start by turning off playback by hitting the space bar. I'm going to go ahead and scroll down to the bottom of my layer panel and turn the eyeball off for the white background. One of the benefits of using animated GIFs is that you can actually export with an alpha channel. So, yeah, we're going to do that. I'm going to go to File, Export, and I'll go to Save for Web Legacy. Now, our image is way too large, so I'm just going to hit command minus a couple times so we can actually see it within the preview window…

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