Using .Gifs as animation sprites

I do most of my animating in photoshop (pixel art) and wanted to know if I could import one whole gif file with all of the frames, rather than making a new image for every frame. Am I able to do this?

Umm try it & see? I don't recommend using gifs though as they are often inferior to most other image formats & I'm not so sure whether they will scale up / down so well to players desktop resolutions.

Why do you animate in photoshop? Wouldn't it be more beneficial to use something like Spriter? In any case I believe you could probably create some action to automatically export all the frames in the animation - although there might already be an option for that in photoshop already?

Ahh just found this article via google: http://superuser.com/questions/243109/export-frames-of-anima...

when using photoshop you can batch export every layer as a single png

Gif is most shitty, lowest compression, lowest quality animation you can get. And that it's all of the internet ? That's just because it has been there since the 90s.

@Simon: There are exceptions. Here you can see the best animated gifs in the world (it's palette cycling only, not realy animated pictures): http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

Yeah, know that page, but it's not a gif Click show options, you see the palette there, the colors are cycled, so it's a static image and the colors are cycled.