Animated tutorial!

[sun_star_n_moon]

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[brotherskeeper1]

THANK YOU for this wonderful tutorial. I am printing it off. I've always wondered about the glows around lights as in your example. I suppose the moon will glow too with the correct steps.

[sun_star_n_moon]

Yep. Moon glows should be possible too!

In this example, Im animating two glows differently, but Its only half the steps if you're animating only one glow!

[sun_star_n_moon]

Hummm....well. I've gotten rather fast at making icons. It comes with practice.

Like, I can make a full 30+ batch of icons...in like and hour.

Providing they're not animated. Animations always take like 3 times longer.

[sun_star_n_moon]

hahaha. I've been using cheater methods too. I only just learned how to do this sort of animation, and I wanted to share my knowledge! There are a lot of steps, but it does produce really nice animations.

[moth2fic]

Sounds brilliant - when I have time to follow it properly! Thanks very much - bookmarked and I'm looking forward to it!

[dark_phoenix54]

I hate that I can't afford PS. There is no option for doing this in PhotoImpact (at least not the ancient version I have) But I am bookmarking his tutorial anyway, just in case I get it some day...

[sun_star_n_moon]

hahaha. Well you could always get photoshop if you *cough* *cough* visit the shadier regions of the internet.