Saving animation as a GIF thats compatible with serif webplus

Question

this is my first ever experiment with photoshop so apologies in advanced.
basically i have created an animation on AE, of a welder welding with sparks playing. its also on a transparent background. I have managed to learn how to render the video to get it onto photoshop, but ive reached a dead end as i dont know what to do next.
in photoshop, I keep going to save as a GIF but it keeps saving as a picture. how do I get it working as a GIF?
many thanks

Answer 1

First it is way easier to save as a gif in AE, the render queue can select Animation Gif as an option.
Second you need to open the animation panel {Windows>Animation} Look for a small icon in the upper right hand corner. A menu will pop up. Two things you need to do,
1)Assuming the animation panel is in timeline mode, in that menu select Conver to frame animation
2)In that menu you need to choose layers to Make frame from layers.
In the animation panel Select all of the frame and change the frame rate. The first frame would have a rating, and the remainder would be set to zero, this is not what you want, you want the all of the frames to have an equal time rate for a normal animation, exceptions are stop frames, etc. You may need to experiment to get the rate just right or do a bit of math. Normal animation for TV is approx. 30 frames per second, so count the number of frame and decide on how long the animation should be and do the math. The frames in frame animation mode are in decimal for fractional seconds.