This crash course introduction to the GIF will go over Photoshop-based techniques for GIF creation including animating, masking, collaging, exporting, and best workflow practices. The course will also discuss presenting GIF work online and IRL as well as look at a brief history of GIFs and the works of contemporary GIF artists. Students will see what others have done with the medium, absorb new techniques, and then deploy them with facilitated lab time.