Tuesday, September 22, 2015

How to write your name in animation

This is a tutorial to show you how to make an animation on how to write your name in photoshop. This is what you should end up with when the project is done .

The first step is to type your name on photoshop. To do this step the text tool has to be used. When you are done typing your name choose a text type that you prefer.
The second step of this project is to start erasing form the last letter. Keep in mind that you should start at the end of the letter instead of writing how the letter is usually written. Only erase a little at a time and duplicate the layer once you are done erasing. Also remember to unhide the layer before so it wont confuse you.  
The third step to the project is to repeat step 2 for every letter in your name.

The fourth step once you are done erasing your name is to go to window on the top of photoshop. Once that is clicked on scroll all the way down to the word timeline and click on it.

 The fifth step is to click on the dropbox arrow and select create frame animation timeline.
The sixth step is to click on the three lines near the far right of photoshop near all the layers. Once that is clicked on a pop up like this should come up on the screen. Click on the make frames from layers to get all of the layers to be made to frames.
If step six was done correctly all of your frames should of been made to layers and have come up on the bottom of the screen in the timeline. You will realize that all the slides are backwards and to fix this you will again need to go to the three lines located on the far right of photoshop. Click on it to click on the reverse frames.
Now all of your frames are in order and you are ready to present this to who ever you please. 
Again this should be your end product. Have fun with the project if you try it. Also to add a little variety add a background. Thanks for reading my tutorial!

   

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

10 words that describe me

This is an animation of 10 words that would best describe me. In this project we did something a little different and used a video timeline instead of using the frame by frame time line that we have been previously using for our other projects. The video timeline in my opinion is easier to use than the frame by frame. Another thing we learned in this animation project would be adding a custom picture for our background. thanks for checking out my video!