How do you speed up & slow down an animated gif in photoshop?

Animation

To be able to edit an animated gif in Photoshop, you will need the original .psd file. If you try opening an existing .gif you will find that you can only view 1 frame of the animation.

Open the psd file and open the animation panel if is not already open. To do this go to Window > Animation.

Open Animation Panel

Open Animation Panel

You will either be presented with the Animation Timeline or Animation Frames.

Animation Timeline

Animation Timeline

Animation Frames

Animation Frames

Click on to Animation Frames by clicking on the symbol in the bottom right corner of the panel to show the Animation Frames.

Change to frames

Change to frames

Under each frame is the time the frame will be shown for in the animation. In this case 0.2 seconds.

Time on frames

Time on frames

To speed up or slow down the animation click the time shown under each frame and change the amount of time.

Change the speed

Change the speed

There are preselected amounts of time shown in the menu on click. To set your own value. Choose ‘other’ from the list and you will get a pop up box where you can manually enter the time that you want.

Set your own time

Set your own time

Animation 0.2 seconds

Animation 0.2 seconds

Animation 1 second

Animation 1 second

Animation 2 Seconds

Animation 2 Seconds

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