Easy Steps to create Mask Animation in Photoshop

[shan]

in this tutorial we will learn how to easily create a mask animation in photoshop.




Step 1:

Open a file with following settings.




Step 2:

Select Type tool and write MASKING in #ffcb05 color. Create a new layer, name it Circle, select elliptical marquee from tool Box , choose Fill pixels from property bar and draw an circular shape over M in red color.




Step 3:

Select Circle layer and press Ctrl+ALt+G to create clipping mask,



Step 4:

Go to window menu bar and open Animation window.



Step 5:

Now in Animation window click "Duplicate selected frames" icon twice while Frame 1 is selected. It will create 2 more frames. Now total number of frames are 3. go to Frame 2 and drag red circle over letter G




Step 6

Select Frame 1 click "Tween animation frames" icon, select Frame to Add =5.






Step 7:

Now we have total 8 frames. Select Frame 7 and apply tweening again with same settings.



Here is the Final Result.

[Ars0nist]

Great Tut!!!....have anything about making realistic flames animation?

[shan]

Thank you
regarding making realistic flames animation i can do it for you give me some time.
thanks

Originally Posted by Ars0nist

Great Tut!!!....have anything about making realistic flames animation?

[daewoo45]

wow thanks dude, always wnated to do this.

[daewoo45]

heres mine i made, my first one so dont laugh lol

[fernie]

Is this on cs3?

[daewoo45]

ya i did mine on cs3

[daewoo45]

ars0nist im gonna try and make you one to with fire balls :o

[fernie]

I was happy to have upgraded from 7 to cs, now I needs to jack me a cs3

nice tutorial btw

[shan]

daewoo45 Excellent you are a fast learner man congrats

Originally Posted by daewoo45

wow thanks dude, always wnated to do this.

[daewoo45]

thanks i try xD

[fernie]

What did I do wrong? Mine doesn't animate. After step 7 I did save as then gif. It animates fine in ps but stopped moving after I saved it

[shan]

it should not have any problems if u saved as gif and did u perform correctly step 7.? if it still doesnot work then i will have to create a video tutorial for you.

[DrayeArt]

Originally Posted by fernie

What did I do wrong? Mine doesn't animate. After step 7 I did save as then gif. It animates fine in ps but stopped moving after I saved it

Looks like you may have forgot to set the times for each frame.