Faded Animation

21Mar08

This tutorial will be using the animation window. A simple technique to use. Fun to play around with and challenging to use. if your up for it, read on.

Following instructions to the point will make the tutorial less confusing to you here. but you don’t have too. Doing whatever you want is usually best so you make it your own way.

Step 1
Open up 2 images that are the same size. I will be using these 2 128×128px images.

Make sure there are 2 layers in your layers panel, then go to Window >> Animation. A box should pop up.

Step 2
Put the image you want to be faded away and coming back on the top layer in the layers panel.

Now go to your animation window and duplicate the frame (should look like new layer button icon in layers panel but this time is on the animation windows)

Now having 2 frames, go to the second frame and click the layer you want to fade (the top layer) Then lower the top layer in the layers panel down to 0%

notice how the 0& layer is different looking frame from the first frame because it isn’t visible anymore.

Step 3

Now press “Tweens animation frames” (beside new frame in animation window, looks like 3 circles)

A box should pop up. Change the frames to add to any amount of number you want. The higher the number the slower it fades away and the lower the faster it fades. I picked 30.

You should now have a total of 32 frames if you picked 32.

Step 4

Now duplicate frame 32 (or your last frame) Then go to frame 33 ( the duplicated one) and raise the top layer in your layers panel back to 100%.

Now press the “tweens animation frames” icon again (the 3 circles) the box should pop up and use the same number you used for the previous one. (mine is 30)

I know have a total of 63 frames.

Step 5

go to File >> Save for web…

Then a big box pop up, click save and save it as .gif format.

Results

Thanks for reading!

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