![]() ![]() ![]() So, if you’re (seriously) interested in animation, you’ll need this guide. In this guide for beginners, we’re going to explore these options and more to help you find the best animation software for your needs. Some of the best animation software in the market are Visme, Adobe Animate, Adobe Character Animator, Pencil2D, Biteable and Animaker. In fact, they generate the highest number of shares on social media compared to other forms of visual content. Choose File > Save As and pick Photoshop from the Format menu to preserve your layers so you can edit them later.Animated visuals are a lot more engaging than plain, static images. In the resulting dialog box, leave both options turned on: Bounding Box closely crops each frame to its content and Redundant Pixel Removal makes unchanged pixels transparent in subsequent frames). When you’re finished, choose Optimize Animation from the Timeline panel’s fly-out menu (circled). You can set the delay for each frame individually or en masse by Shift- or Command-clicking to activate frames and then changing the duration of one of them. Click the Play button (also circled) to preview your handiwork. Next, click the looping options menu (circled) and choose 3, so the animation repeats itself three times. Keep your branding and call to action frames onscreen long enough to be read (say, two seconds) and speed up tweened frames (0.5 seconds). Use the frame delay menu beneath each frame to control how long it’s visible. The more frames you add, the bigger the file size, so tween with caution! Customize the playback Click OK and Photoshop adds the new frames (circled). In the resulting dialog box, tell Photoshop which frame to tween the active one with (Next Frame was used here) and enter how many frames of fading you want in the Frames to Add field. To do it, activate the frame you want to fade into the next one (say, the “call to action” frame) and click the Tween button (it looks like a diagonal row of squares and it’s at left of the duplicate button). You can also add a fade transition between frames, which is called tweening. Adding a blank frame between two text frames (the first and last) helps keep text readable once the animation loops during playback (bottom). Here the call to action frame appears after the final costume photo, followed by a “blank” frame containing only the background.Īfter clicking the duplicate button (circled), use layer visibility to display the content you want to appear in the second frame (top). Keep adding frames and adjusting layer visibility until you’ve completed the animation. In the Layers panel, use the visibility icons to display only the layer(s) containing the content for the second frame in your animation. Since frame content is determined by layer visibility, the new frame is identical to the first one. To add a new frame, click the “Duplicate selected frames” button (circled). Here’s what the Timeline panel looks like when you first open it (top) and here’s what it looks like after clicking the “Create Frame Animation” button. Each frame serves as a placeholder for the content you want to show onscreen, which you control using layer visibility. Click the Create Frame Animation button that appears and Photoshop creates one frame representing what’s currently visible in the Layers panel. In the resulting panel, click the down-pointing icon to the right of the Create Video Timeline button and choose Create Frame Animation. As you can see, only the layers for the first frame are visible. This Layers panel shows all the animation content. Once your content is complete, turn off the layer visibility icons (circled) for everything except what you want visible on the first frame. The latter gives your audience an action to do, and lets you gauge the ad’s success rate. Be sure to include a layer for branding (say, your logo) and a “call to action” layer (say, “click here to get 50% off your first sitting”). Photoshop surrounds the image with resizing handles Shift-drag any corner handle to resize the image and then press Return. To add images to the document, choose File > Place Embedded (File > Place in earlier versions). SRGB is the standard color space for the Internet, so designing in that space avoids color shifting when you save the file. ![]()
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