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Animated Star Galaxy Effect

Filed under: Animation — Fiery Darts @ 2:45 pm

Animated Star Galaxy Effect
Start by creating a six points star shape using polygon shape tool.

From “Filter” menu select “Distort>>Twirl”. Apply settings as shown.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.
Create a new layer and select brush as shown.
Press F5 to open brush settings. Apply settings as shown.
Apply the brush randomly as shown. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette. Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select Flip Vertical. Hide this layer.
Create a new layer. Select brush tool with feathered settings. Select violet as foreground color and apply brush strokes randomly as shown.
Select the star layer and change the layer mode to "color dodge".
Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T and rotate it 15°.
Create two more duplicates of this layer and rotate each layer further by 15°.
Select all the twirl layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select distort. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown.
Open animation window. For the first frame hide three duplicates off twirl layer. Also hide one of the stars layers.
Duplicate frame. Hide the first twirl layer and unhide the second duplicate. Also hide the first stars layer and unhide the flipped one. Similarly duplicate frames and repeat the above steps to reveal the rest of the duplicates of twirl layer with stars layer hide/unhide every alternate frame.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.

Magician Performing Magic Tricks Animation

Filed under: Animation — Fiery Darts @ 7:36 pm

Magician Performing Magic Tricks Animation
Start by opening an image of a magician, holding something in his hand.
Create selection of the magician using your favorite technique. We used polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. Hide the layer.
Select the image layer. Clone the copied area using clone stamp tool.
Unhide the magician layer.
Create selection of the rabbit using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.
Cone the arm of the magician using clone stamp tool.
Create selection of the magician excluding the left arm. Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.
Create selection of the lower arm using polygon lasso tool. Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. Now we have five layers in all. Background, body, upper arm, lower arm and rabbit. Let’s select body, upper arm and lower arm layers. Press Ctrl+g to create a group of these layers.
Duplicate group twice. Rotate arm layers and place as shown. Use eraser tool to delete any unwanted areas.
This is our 3rd group with a different position of arm layers.
Create selection of the hat as shown. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer.
Move this layer above all the layers in layer order in layer palette.
Now we have three poses of arms. Unhide both poses which are out of hat. Unhide rabbit layer. Duplicate layer and place both the rabbit layers according to the arms position.
Similarly you can import some more images and place them like rabbit layers.
Create some stars with different colors, angle and sizes using custom shape tool. Select all the stars layer and press Ctrl+G to group.
Duplicate the star group twice and change their position randomly in each group.

Open animation window. For the first frame hide the rabbit and other object layers. Let only first group of arms be visible.
Duplicate frame. Unhide the second group of arm and hide the first one.
Duplicate frame. Unhide the third group of arm and hide the second one.
Duplicate frame. Unhide the first star group.
Duplicate frame twice and for each frame let the other star group be visible.
Duplicate last frame. Hide the star group and unhide the corresponding pose of arms as shown below. Unhide the watch layer.
Similarly keep duplicating frames. Again show star frames and then rabbit coming out.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.

Home Decor Site Animated Banner

Filed under: Animation — Fiery Darts @ 4:17 pm

Home Decor Site Animated Banner

Start by creating a file of banner size. Fill with a solid color. Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Place it at the bottom of banner.
Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Place it on the left of the banner.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
insert an image you want to place on the banner. Move the layer just above the rounded rectangle layer. Press Ctrl+Alt+G to create clipping mask.
Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select flip horizontal.
Create an arrow shape using custom shape tool. Fill it with white color.
Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select flip horizontal. Fill it with black color.
Similar create some more rounded rectangles with pictures. Also add arrows in both directions for all these images.
Insert company name and other details over the ellipse layer.
Open animation window. For the first frame hide all the images. Keep only first arrow visible.
Duplicate frame. Unhide first image and second arrow. Hide the first arrow.
Similarly keep duplicating frames and keep hiding/unhiding layers according to the images below.
For the seventh frame start making black arrow visible to create a backward motion.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.
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