Adobe Photoshop CS4 can open both static and animated GIF images and allows you to edit both types. While static GIF images have no motion and look like a regular image, animated GIF images actually ...

Adobe Photoshop has always included the ability to open and edit static GIF files, and to create GIF animations, allowing you to design ads for your business or graphics for your company's website.

Here’s a little-known Internet secret: GIF files -- the preferred medium for sharing pithy animation loops across the web -- were never invented with this purpose in mind. Instead, the file format was ...