How to create a "LOADING" animated GIF

While I was thinking about what to present you guys today, a simple but a useful animation came up in my mind. It' s the loading animation that we are all familiar with. All most all the time we see that as an indication of progress in softwares, programmes, webpages, blogs we deal with everyday. The use of a loading icon is also numerous. Its appearance hints the viewer, just like a sign that says wait. Also, there is a standard indication or sign for this loading animation (it's a circle now) where if you can remember once it was an animated hour glass. However, typically a round shape, a circle or a ball bearing is used in making loading animation. What we are going to do today is a simple one. A loading animation using a circle. You can always be creative once you learn the photoshop skill in making it. So enough about that, let's make some loading animation!

How to make an animated gif using photoshop

Today I'm going to tell you about how to make a basic animation using Adobe Photoshop. Here I will teach you step by step. So if you are a beginner there is no problem with that. As this is our first step about animations today I will tell you how to create a slideshow without effects. We can save this as animated gif file to add it to the web or anything you want. Unfortunately we cannot export animated files to SWF format using Photoshop. With this tutorial I'm starting animation lessons.

What is an animation

An animation is the production of images virtually enabled to perform as if they are moving. One of the main objectives of making an animation is to catch the eye of the viewer as they are better at doing it than still images. Not to mention, animated images can also add up liveliness too.