![]() ![]() After each character that we type in the text editor, we’ll type Command-Shift-4, Space, and click on the text editor window, creating many screenshots saved to the desktop. ![]() Now let’s capture several frames at once to speed this along. Your Preview window should look something like this now: Find the captured image on your Desktop, and drag it onto the Preview window, directly over the “animation.gif” image in the sidebar.Let’s just add one character ‘A’ to the text editor, and add that to the sequence. We’ll want to see the sidebar so we can add images to the GIF sequence. You can now delete the original screen capture image so you don’t accidentally duplicate it during the next steps. Name the file something meaningful like animation.gif. That creates a screen capture of just the window you clicked and saves it to the desktop. Save this opening shot by typing Command-Shift-4. That’s because GIF images can only contain 256 different colors, and that’s not enough to see the subtle changes in the shadow. The first thing you might notice between the screenshot above and the animated GIF at the beginning is that the shadow looks better on this screenshot. Resize the window so that it’s a nice, tight size that will look good on a web page. Open a text editor such as TextEdit, TextMate, BBEdit, etc. That is a reasonable typing speed for this effect. Preview sets the interframe delay to 0.1 seconds, and I have not seen a way to change that. If you open an animated GIF in Mac OS X’s Preview application, the default application for viewing images and PDFs, you may know that you can see individual frames of the animation, but did you know you can also create animated GIFs with Preview? Here’s how.įor this example, we will create an animated GIF of us typing some text into a text editor.
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