Animated Signature Tutorial For Photoshop CS2.

[th3warr1or]

Programs Used:

 

 

 

Adobe Photoshop CS2

 

 

 

Steps

 

 

 

Step 1: Make your Completed Banner/Signature complete with Layers/Text Layers and hide ALL Text/Images that you WANT TO FADE-IN and OUT. If you do not want a certain particular Image/Text layer to flash, DO NOT HIDE IT.

 

 

 

Step 2: Open the Animation Frames. (Window -> Animation)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3: Click the Duplicate Selected Frames Button inside the Animation Box 10times . The button looks like the NEW LAYER button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

B) If you have 2 Words/images to fade-in and fade-out, press the Duplicate Frame Button 20times(21frames). If you have 3 words/images, then press it 30times(31frames).

 

 

 

1 Image/Text Layer = 11 Frames(Duplicate 10x)

 

2 Image/Text Layer = 21 Frames(Duplicate 20x)

 

3 Image/Text Layer = 31 Frames(Duplicate 30x)

 

and so on...

 

 

 

Step 4: Press Ctrl and click Frames 2-10(Frame 1 and 11 UnSelected), and then "Un-hide" the Text which you wish to flash FIRST. Frames 2-10 should have the words appearing while 1 and 11 are still without any Text.

 

 

 

 

Step 5: Click the 2nd Frame and change the opacity to 20%, the 3rd frame to 40%, the 4th Frame to 60%, the 5th Frame to 80%.

 

B) Skip the 6th Frame and change the 7th frame to 80%, the 8th frame to 60%, the 9th Frame to 40% and finally the 10th frame to 20%.

 

 

 

So it should look like this(with the 1st and 11th frame untouched)

 

2-20%, 3-40%, 4-60%, 5-80%, 6-100%, 7-80%, 8-60%, 9-40%, 10-20%.(20,40,60,80,100,80,60,40,20)

 

 

 

Step 6: Then for 2nd, 3rd and so on Texts, Do the Same thing from Step 3-5. Only things to note are,

 

1 Flashing Image/Text Layer = 11 Frames total with 1 and 11th empty.

 

2 Flashing Image/Text Layer = 21 Frames total with 1, 11th and 21th Frames empty.

 

3 Flashing Image/Text Layer = 31 Frames total with 1, 11th, 21th and 31th Frames Empty.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 7: Hold Ctrl down and Click *ALL* the Frames(including 1, 11, 21, 31etc). It should now be ALL highlighted in Blue.

 

Change the 0 Sec to 0.2 Second(Click the small Black arrow pointing down beside the sec). Now, everything that was highlighted will now be 0.2 Seconds(each frame).

 

 

 

 

Step 8: Click File -> Save For Web. A screen shoud pop up. If everything is the way you want it to be, then click Save, and then type in the Name and place you wish to save it at. Leave the other Settings(.gif/slices) the same. then click Save.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voila! Your animated Signature is now ready and should look like this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions or need help, feel free to ask me.

[rushrock]

It seems fine, but image is huge. My eyes...

 

 

 

Thumbnail plz.

[Nadril]

- The sig is far too large to use here.

 

- The animation is really choppy.

[RazorAce]

I didnt know you could animate in PS. lol, anyway, im sure with more framse it would be less chopy.

[navyplaya]

The end result isn't that good, but the tut is layed out decently and it gives people basic knowledge on how to animate. I'm sure some one will find this helpful :wink:

[Latinoking]

What's different from an animation in Photoshop and one in Adobe Flash?

[yaff2]

What's different from an animation in Photoshop and one in Adobe Flash?

 

 

 

flash is designed for makin movies, games, videos, etc etc, Photoshop is basically meant for text and what not.

[ThruItAll]

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=424460

 

Someone beat you to it. Kudos for making a tut though.

[th3warr1or]

- The sig is far too large to use here.

 

- The animation is really choppy.

 

 

 

well, i had to reduce the frames by ALOT. it wasn't that choppy. if i had done 90,80,70,60,50..20,10% opacity per frame it wouldnt be choppy at all :)

 

 

 

and this is just a tutorial. people can reduce the Amount of words and so also reducing the memory.

[M_u_s_ii_X]

Woopidoo2 already made a guide for this. :|

[Jopie211]

^ Yes, but it never hurts to have more than one tut does it? :P

 

 

 

Pretty nice tutorial, might be handy for some people. :)

[np_tyler]

You could use the tween tool if you wanted to go the easy route. Although this works, too. You also might want to make the text stay up for a second or two at full opacity.

[Bloodredsword]

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=424460

 

Someone beat you to it. Kudos for making a tut though.

 

 

 

Woopi is hawt :P :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

Nice tut....and for people complaining about the choppy animation: Its a beginers tut. Come on. Its much easier for people to learn choppy, and progress onto smooth. It was for me anyway(I actually used woops tut the first day he posted it :) )

[woopidoo2]

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=424460

 

Someone beat you to it. Kudos for making a tut though.

 

 

 

Woopi is hawt :P :mrgreen:

 

 

 

Hah =P~

 

 

 

Indeed, I made a tut about it a loong time ago. I never knew you could animate in PS, so this is new to me.

 

 

 

Thanks for taking your time though, I know how many hours you can spend on a tutorial (including uploading the pictures)

[th3warr1or]

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=424460

 

Someone beat you to it. Kudos for making a tut though.

 

 

 

Woopi is hawt :P :mrgreen:

 

 

 

Hah =P~

 

 

 

Indeed, I made a tut about it a loong time ago. I never knew you could animate in PS, so this is new to me.

 

 

 

Thanks for taking your time though, I know how many hours you can spend on a tutorial (including uploading the pictures)

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yeah its hard work. And yup u can animate words with PS. But Flash etc enables better moveings..but the basics can be done in PS