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So animated GIFs are everywhere and you see them a lot on social media and everywhere else on the
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internet. So I want to show you a quick way for you to create your own custom animated GIFs
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without having to download a different program or to spend additional money on a new app. If you
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have a Mac and you have Keynote, there's a really easy way to create an animated GIF
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So you can see in this presentation, I just have four different slides. Each has a different
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background and each has a different number so you can see the different frames. So what will
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happen is once I go through when I export this as a GIF, I'll be able to kind of create an animated
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movie that's going to look just like this, but it will do it automatically without having me click
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each time. So once you're ready to export your GIF, all you have to do is go up to File and choose
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Export to Animated GIF. You'll want to specify the number of slides that you want to use. In
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this case, I just want to use these four slides, so I'm going to say slides 1 to 4. And under
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Resolution, I'll keep this at Medium. If it's just something that you're going to share on social
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media, you may find that Medium will work good for you, but of course you can always change the
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file size to have a better quality of an image. I'm going to leave Frame Rate where it is and you
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can see Auto Advance. This is the time that it takes to advance from slide to slide. It can go
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up to one second, but I'm just going to leave this at just about half a second. And when I'm ready
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all I have to do is just click Next. I'm going to name my GIF and save it to this one folder on my
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desktop and click Export. So I opened the folder and this is the file that I created, but if you
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open this, by default it will open in Preview and it's going to show you each individual frame
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It's not going to show you what your GIF is going to look like once you upload it to whatever site
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that you want. So what you need to do is find the GIF that you exported. You have to Control-click
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on your Mac and you have to choose Open With and you want to select Safari
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And there we go. That's a GIF that was created through Keynote in just a few seconds, completely
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free and didn't require me to download an additional program. So let's summarize. All you
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have to do is design your GIF in Keynote, select File, Export, Animated GIF, adjust your settings
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save it to a location, and then from that location, if you want to preview how it's going to look
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Control-click and open in Safari
