How to Create Animated GIFs for Social Media: Without Using Photoshop!

If you don’t have any design experience, but you want to learn how to create animated GIFs for your social media without having to learn expensive and time-consuming design software, this tutorial is for you!
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It's becoming harder and harder to get noticed online, so you need to learn how to take your social media graphics to the next level! One of the best ways to do this is to create an eye-catching animated GIF to use on Facebook or even for Instagram Stories.

This video uses graphics that we created together in a previous video. Feel free to watch this one first to see the full process: youtube.com/watch?v=JEOMk9wePtg

Using a free tool called Make A GIF, you’ll be able to easily stitch together images to (you guessed it) make a GIF! All you need to do is create a free account in order to create a GIF without a watermark.

In this video you’ll learn:
- How to use Make A GIF for basic GIF creation
- How to download your new GIF in the correct format so that it plays properly on social media
- How to test post a GIF to your Facebook profile to ensure that it is working correctly (without anyone else seeing)

…And if you watch all the way until the end, you’ll discover how to bypass a common error that business owners face when trying to post an animated GIF to a Facebook Page.

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