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Beginners Guide: Animation — Description
Beginners Guide: Animation In Photoshop And Imageready

Tutorial Objective

Animations Are Are Basically A Video Or Pictures Of A Sequence All Into A Set Of Frames... When Put Together Into .gif form they are animated pictures... This Tutorial Will Teach You How to Do Animated Pictures.. And Make Videos.. Into Animations..

Image Flash / Slideshow
1. Open New Document.
2. Make Sure Its 50x50 or 100x100 or Desired Size.
3. Open Images You Want.
4. Use Move Tool To Drag Into Current Workspace.
5. Ctrl + T to resize images to desired size.
6. Do This To As Many Images/Frames Desired.
7. Shift + Crtl + M to Switch To Imageready. Or Save .PSD And Open Imageready Manually.
8. Once The File Is Open In Image Ready
9. Make Sure Animation And Optimize Windows Are Open.. Window On Top Of The Program Is Where To Open Those.
10. On The Layer Section To The Left.. Click The Eye Looking Thing. To "Hide" Layers... This Is How We Will Make All The Frames Different.
11. Hide All Layers Except For Your First Frame...
12. To Create A New Frame.. Click "Duplicate Frame" Button on the bottom of the Animation Window... This Will Duplicate Current Frame.. Just Un-Hide The SEcond Layer/Frame By Clicking The Eye Again.
13. Do This Till All Frames Are Shown...
14. Depending On How Many Frames.. The Optimize Section Can Lower Colors For Smaller Filesize..
15. Select Dely Time For Frames... This Is How Fast Pictures Will Switch
16. To Save... File>Save Optimized As...> .GIF

This Works For All Types Of Avatars.. Like My Seizure Tar.. Just Make Layers Of Colors Instead Of Pictures... Same Goes With Text Or Symbols...

Now Will Show You How To Make Those MusicTars And Other Aniamtions You Seen From Music Videos, Movies, And Other Funny Video Clips

Video Clips Into .GIF
1.Open Imageready
2. File>Open Find Your Video Or Clip [Now Keep In Mind Older Versions Dont Support This.. And Some Formats Arn't Supported Either]
3. A Window Should Popup.. Will Show A Few Options Of How To Open The Video.. and A Preview Of This Video...
4. Click Selected Area.. Go To Slider... Slide To Your Selected Section You Want.. Hold Shift.. Move Slide.. Let Go And Then Click Ok.. The Bigger The Section The More Time To Load.
5. To Re-size To Your Size.. Crop... By Image>Crop.. Useing The Regtangular Marquee Tool As Well.. Dotted Box On Top Of Toolbar
Also Image>Image Resize.. This Will Not Allow You To Do Manually.. So May Need To Do Canvas Size.. To Make It Perfect 50x50 etc.. With Transparent Pixels...
6. Now Sift Through The Frames.. And Delete Unwanted Frames... Add Any Text.. Effects Etc..
7. Save Optimized As...

Aslo Keep InMind.. More Frames = Bigger Filesize.. Try To Keep Under 20 Frames And Low Colors... That Dont Totally Kill Your Avatar..

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Sorry Was Done In Description.. Actually Image Of This Crashed Before Saving... But Still Wanted To Give It To Help Those Wanting To Learn Animation...

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