Opening animated GIFs

You can open an existing animated GIF in Photoshop Elements using the Open command. The file is opened as a stack of layers. Each layer corresponds to one frame. If you want to view a specific frame in the document window, make the layer for that frame visible in the Layers palette and hide all the other layers in the Layers palette.

Opening existing animated GIF files in Photoshop Elements is useful primarily for applying optimization settings to the files. The one-layer-per-frame structure of imported animated GIF files may make it impractical to edit animation frames in other ways.

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