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Open
photoshop and go to "Window"
>> "show toolbars" to
make sure you have "tool bars"
showing |
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2.
Select the icon for "image ready"
at the bottom of the tool bar as show
in image 1.
3.
In image ready, open the file of the
glitter you want to use
(go to window > show
animation if you dont see an animation
bar) it will show you the animation
frames for that glitter. |
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| 4.
Click back into photoshop (as shown
in image 2) and you will see the
layers in "layers, channels, path"
tool box. (to make sure this is on go
to windows again and chose "show
layers") |
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5.
The eyeball in the layer indicates it
is a visible layer (see image 3), you
want to make a seperate graphic for
each layer. To do this turn the eyeball
off in all layers but the one you are
going to use. Go to select > select
all, and then to edit > copy. MAKE
SURE YOU HAVE THE LAYER THAT HAS THE
EYEBALL HIGHLIGHTED
6.
open file > new and then edit >
paste and you will get a untitled image.
do this once for each layer of the original
glitter and when you have all the untitled
images on your session, go to each one
and save them as a "pattern" |
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7.
You have to make sure you do all three
images by themselves to save as pattern.
go to edit > define pattern >
name the pattern (purp1, purp2, purp3) |
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8.
Now open a brand new file and pick out
a font.
Write your words then delete the background
layer so that its just the words on
the checker blank background.
9.
Depending on the number of images the
glitter has, this one has three, duplicate
your layer that many times so you have
three
identical layers with word. |
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10.
Rasterize each layer (right click on
each layer in the layer box to pick
"rasterize layer").
11.
Take your magic wand and click the word.
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With the snake outlining the words with
your first layer visible and the others
hidden, (layer one eyeball on, other
two layers eyeball off) make sure that
is the highlighted layer as well, go
to edit > fill > pattern. |
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13.
Make sure the fill option says pattern
and you can see your three patterns
you saved as choices, with the first
layer use the first purple (purp1),
with the second layer use the second
one (purp2), and with the third use
the last (purp3).
14.
Now click to image ready again. (see
image 1) |
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15.
You will see one frame and three layers,
click the icon to duplicate frames so
you have the same number frames as you
have layers. (image 12)
16.
Important eyeball and frame time!! For
the first frame you want to highlight
it, and turn the eyeball on for layer
one, and off for the other two.
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Image 13 <frame 1>
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17.
For the second frame, highlight second
frame and turn the eyeball on layer
2 and off on 1 and 3. |
Image 13 <frame 2> |
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18.
For the last frame, highlight last frame
and turn eyeball off on layer 1 and
2. |
Image 13 <frame 3>
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19.
Now go to the little numbers under each
frame to set the time between frames
for the animation. .1 seconds is good.
(see image 13<frame 3>)
20.
You can test your animation by clicking
on the play button under the frames.
the little arrow to the right.
21.
If it looks good, go to file > save
optimized as > then name your .gif
whatever you want. and that should be
your glittery animated words. yay! |
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