You’re going to see some options. Range To Import is what we are going to set first. We’re going to set it down to Selected Range Only. Why is this? Because we don’t want to import our entire video, that would take forever! We only want the good stuff!

Next, lets set a limit to how Photoshop imports our frames. The “Limit to Every __ Frames” option is essentially us telling Photoshop how many frames we want to ignore. Lets set this to 2 for now.

Here is one way to think about this option. Each [] here is a frame of our video, and each “x” is a frame we tell Photoshop to skip. We set Fraps to record in 60 frames per second. So likewise, 60 frames of our video will equal 1 second of time. If we didn’t set any limit here we would output 60 total images per second. By setting a limit, we are telling Photoshop to only import one image from every number of frames.

With this in mind, the more frames we tell Photoshop to skip the faster and choppier the GIF will be. You will probably never want to go outside of a range from 2 to 5.

Once you have set that up, its time to mark in and out what you want to import. Using the sliders under the video preview, select only the range of video that you want to make into a GIF. With your sliders set up the way you want them, hit “Ok”

Step Three: Editing Your GIF

So now that you’ve imported your video into frames, you’ll have something that looks like this: