That’s weird; Photoshop should certainly read GIF images. You should probably convert the images you open to RGB color if you want to do any actual editing to them, and you’ll need to turn them back into indexed color if you want to save them as GIFs again. This could be confusing; ask if so.

Photoshop doesn’t handle animated GIFs, however; for those, you should use ImageReady, which should be bundled with Photoshop, at least if you have a recent version.

What, exactly, do you mean by “Photoshop won’t let me use GIFs”? Also, which version of Photoshop are you using? If you could be somehow more specific, I think I’d be able to help you more.

Edit: As usual, crono_logical beat me to answering. Oh well. The animation thing could be discouraging, and that might have been what Bahamut2000X was referring to...

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