Animation Tutorial
xmrstuartx and pinkninjafish asked me if I could do an animation tutorial. So here we go..
Program: Photoshop CS3 Extended(you can use other programs too)
Difficulty: 7/10
We're gonna do this:
To do this:
you have to have your screencaps/pictures ready to be edited in photoshop. You can have the video file be uploaded on Windows Movie Maker or other video editing software that you and capture the scene you want frame by frame.
Step 1: Upload your files to Photoshop one by one(File>Open or CTRL+0). Make sure that you have less frames because you size can be pretty big if you have a lot.
Copy(CTRL+C) and paste(CTRL+V) every cap you have on top of the first cap you opened.
My pallete looks like this now:
Step 2: Crop the images to 80x80 px. It can be bigger or smaller, it's your choice.
Step 3: I want to have a bigger space so open Canvas Size(Image>Canvas Size)
Put the width and the height to 100x100px so it would be the same size as a normal icon.
It should look like this:
The Anchor can be in any place you want. I picked the middle one because it fits the icon.
and the whole thing should look like this:
Step 4: Go at the very bottom of your pallete(which means below your Layer 1) and make a Fill layer(Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color) Pick #000000 which is black and click ok.
Step 5: Now go back at the top most of the pallete. I want my animation to be Black and White so what we do is go to Layer>New Adjustmnt Layer> Gradient Map.
Pick the Black and White or Black as Foreground and White and Background then click ok.
Step 6: My images are pretty dark so I have to make it brighter. Open Brightness/Contrast(Layer>New Adjustment Layer) and puthe Brightness to whatever fits your images.
Mine was on 100.
Step 7: Now that our images are bright enough, we now want to black/dark edges in these images so it wouldn't be so common and corner-y. Make a new layer(Layer>New>Layer)and with a 65px soft brush, fill the spots you want with black(#000000) color.
Now, my image looks like this:
Step 8: Use this:
texture(made by me) and set it up to lighten to make a smokey effect.
here we go to the animation part
Step 9: If you don't have the animation window on your screen yet, you can find it when you go to Window>Animation.
As it opens, you can see this
happen to the pallete.
In order to have the layers show, click the options which is circled in this picture:
and click Make Frames From Layers.
Step 10: Now that all the layers have shown up, delete the first layer(or #1) and the last 4 using the delete icon from the animation pallate(make sure that you don't delete those layer from the main pallete)
Step 11: The layers from the animation pallate you have left are the caps you had from the first steps. What you would do now is to click the first layer you have in the animation pallete and show the Color Fill Layer, Gradient Map, Brightness/Contrast Layer, Black colored layer and the texture.
To make it clear, everything shold look like this:
Step 12: We have to fix the time of each frame at this step so it'll be what we call an 'animation'.
The place where you can see 0 sec., chalnge that 0 sec. to 0.2. Do that to every frame you have to the animation pallete.
Step 13: Don't give up, you're almost done! Okay, so in this step you have to copy the last layer from the animation pallate 2 times using the circled tool.
After the layer is duplicated, change the first duplicated layer's opacity from the main pallete to 50% and the last duplicated layer to 0%
Step 14: Change the seconds of the last layer fro animation pallete to 0.6 so the animation would have some kind of pause to it. (be sure that you have the settings of plays as Forever)
Step 15: Time to save your animation! To save it, go to File>Save for Web and Devices>Save.
Then you're done!
Please direct all your comments and questions here
Other examples:
Program: Photoshop CS3 Extended(you can use other programs too)
Difficulty: 7/10
We're gonna do this:
To do this:
you have to have your screencaps/pictures ready to be edited in photoshop. You can have the video file be uploaded on Windows Movie Maker or other video editing software that you and capture the scene you want frame by frame.
Step 1: Upload your files to Photoshop one by one(File>Open or CTRL+0). Make sure that you have less frames because you size can be pretty big if you have a lot.
Copy(CTRL+C) and paste(CTRL+V) every cap you have on top of the first cap you opened.
My pallete looks like this now:
Step 2: Crop the images to 80x80 px. It can be bigger or smaller, it's your choice.
Step 3: I want to have a bigger space so open Canvas Size(Image>Canvas Size)
Put the width and the height to 100x100px so it would be the same size as a normal icon.
It should look like this:
The Anchor can be in any place you want. I picked the middle one because it fits the icon.
and the whole thing should look like this:
Step 4: Go at the very bottom of your pallete(which means below your Layer 1) and make a Fill layer(Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color) Pick #000000 which is black and click ok.
Step 5: Now go back at the top most of the pallete. I want my animation to be Black and White so what we do is go to Layer>New Adjustmnt Layer> Gradient Map.
Pick the Black and White or Black as Foreground and White and Background then click ok.
Step 6: My images are pretty dark so I have to make it brighter. Open Brightness/Contrast(Layer>New Adjustment Layer) and puthe Brightness to whatever fits your images.
Mine was on 100.
Step 7: Now that our images are bright enough, we now want to black/dark edges in these images so it wouldn't be so common and corner-y. Make a new layer(Layer>New>Layer)and with a 65px soft brush, fill the spots you want with black(#000000) color.
Now, my image looks like this:
Step 8: Use this:
texture(made by me) and set it up to lighten to make a smokey effect.
here we go to the animation part
Step 9: If you don't have the animation window on your screen yet, you can find it when you go to Window>Animation.
As it opens, you can see this
happen to the pallete.
In order to have the layers show, click the options which is circled in this picture:
and click Make Frames From Layers.
Step 10: Now that all the layers have shown up, delete the first layer(or #1) and the last 4 using the delete icon from the animation pallate(make sure that you don't delete those layer from the main pallete)
Step 11: The layers from the animation pallate you have left are the caps you had from the first steps. What you would do now is to click the first layer you have in the animation pallete and show the Color Fill Layer, Gradient Map, Brightness/Contrast Layer, Black colored layer and the texture.
To make it clear, everything shold look like this:
Step 12: We have to fix the time of each frame at this step so it'll be what we call an 'animation'.
The place where you can see 0 sec., chalnge that 0 sec. to 0.2. Do that to every frame you have to the animation pallete.
Step 13: Don't give up, you're almost done! Okay, so in this step you have to copy the last layer from the animation pallate 2 times using the circled tool.
After the layer is duplicated, change the first duplicated layer's opacity from the main pallete to 50% and the last duplicated layer to 0%
Step 14: Change the seconds of the last layer fro animation pallete to 0.6 so the animation would have some kind of pause to it. (be sure that you have the settings of plays as Forever)
Step 15: Time to save your animation! To save it, go to File>Save for Web and Devices>Save.
Then you're done!
Please direct all your comments and questions here
Other examples:
