Animated images are always appealing and eye-catching as compare to static pictures. You might have noticed that websites and ads using different animations grab more visitors’ attention and it usually results in more productivity and achievement of targets. In this tutorial we are going to tell show you how you can make a animated gif images using Photoshop and ImageReady.

1. Start Photoshop and make a new image of any pixel length according to your requirement.
2. Choose Show Layers from Window menu.
3. Draw picture with the help of pencil tool.
4. Create duplicate layer by clicking Layer palette sub-menu.
5. Click the eyeball icon. Use the pencil tool to add to image on top layer. Use erase tool to remove part of image.
6. In file-menu, select Jump to, and then save Adobe ImageReady.
7. Select Show Animation in Window menu. This will come up with animation palette. Click on its sub-menu arrow and choose Make Frames from Layers.
8. Save the animation with Save Optimized As option.