Wednesday, 11 July 2007

Creating Animated GIFs / Moving Pictures


(click image to see it in action)
1. First off, create a new document in photoshop.
Treat each layer as a frame. I am going to make a a line that appears to be drawing itself, and
you can see what I mean by each layer is a new a frame.
2. After you have done this you need to click the 'edit in imageready' button:


3. Okay, once in imageready you need to make sure you can see the animation window (Window -> Animation).
You also need to make sure that only layer showing is the one that you want to be the first frame. (click the little eye next to the layer in the box )

4. After you've prepared your imageready, you are now ready to put together each frame,
repeat what this image says until all your layers are visible.


5. And you're done! I ended up with this :


[[NOTE]]
When saving animated GIFs make sure you select Save Optimized As... otherwise your image won't be animated.

3 comments:

stuart.f said...

Brilliant Blog!! But What Software Do You Use To Do All This?????

Let Me No Please - stuart.f_06@hotmail.co.uk

Angiee__x said...

hey thanks i know how to do it on photoshop cs3 now. But how do you do it because mine doesnt have 'save optimized as...' what should i use instead?

Sana said...

how do you make an animated skin with GIMP ??