Comments on: Create Animated GIFs with Mac OS X Preview.app

By: Jordon Jasper

Jordon Jasper — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:09:47 +0000

Is there any way to make them loop on preview?

By: macadol

macadol — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:34:15 +0000

Since Lion is the OS X running, Preview is not able to save as GIF. Only PDF, JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, PNG and EXR (I don’t know what is this one. Solutions?

By: esaruoho

esaruoho — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:28:27 +0000

How would one modify this so that one could run an Automator script or an AppleScript to automatically both record and then combine this stuff on-the-fly?

By: Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:43:48 +0000

I’m having the same problem. I have the latest version, but it looks like our sidebars are a little different. My pictures are saved as .GIFs but their sidebars don’t have your icons on the bottom. Yours has a “six squares” icon, a “two dots” icon, a “three lines” icon, and a “pen” icon; mine shows a “gear” icon and a side scroll feature. I’m not sure why they’re different.

By: Robert Harder

Robert Harder — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:41:33 +0000

@Jack Assuming you’ve got a recent Preview app (from earlier comments, we haven’t quite worked out when the feature was introduced), it’s possible that Preview is simply showing you multiple images in one window such as when you select a bunch of JPEGs and open them at once. The last screenshot above shows what it ought to look like when you drag a subsequent frame onto the GIF. If that’s all good-to-go, then I’m sorry, but I’m not sure what’s broken. -Rob

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:07:39 +0000

Even though I have all the frames, when I go to save the image as a GIF, it saves only 1 frame (usually the first one selected when selecting all of them). Do I have to save all the screenshots as GIF’s?

By: Robert Harder

Robert Harder — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:22:46 +0000

@Timothy I don’t remember which version of OS X I was using when I wrote the tutorial. I’m on Snow Leopard now (Preview v5.0.3). Maybe it was introduced later. Which version of OS X has Preview 4.2? -Rob

By: Timothy McKean

Timothy McKean — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:02:28 +0000

Having the same problem… can’t layer the frames. I’m on version 4.2. What version did you build the tutorial with?

By: Kristie Satterly

Kristie Satterly — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:47:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I used this and it works great. For loop setting I just used GIMP.

By: Robert Harder

Robert Harder — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:06:11 +0000

@Lance, @Al, @George Sorry, not sure what’s going wrong. It’s probably some step I’m leaving out, but I can’t see what it is. -Rob