Time Lapse Conceptual Animation
Author: 2007-09-14 17:18:19　From:
| Start by opening a sky image. |
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| Create a rectangular selection using rectangular marquee tool towards the left edge. |
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| Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the selection in a new layer. Move it to the right edge of the image. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select flip horizontal. |
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| Merge both the clouds layer. Select stamp tool (s) and start cloning the area of the joint. |
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| Create a duplicate of the sky layer. Move the original layer towards the left and a duplicate towards right. |
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| Merge both the layers. these steps are essential for creating a seamless loop of the sky animation. |
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| Insert a clock image in the main file. |
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| Change the layer mode to linear burn. |
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| Knock out the hard edges using eraser tool with a soft brush settings. |
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| Create a selection of the clock hand. |
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| Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut and paste the selection in a new layer. |
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| Clone to fill the cutout and the second hand. |
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| Unhide the previously hidden clock hand layer. |
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| Create a duplicate of the hand layer. Press Ctrl+T. Move the anchor point to the center of the hand. |
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| Rotate the hand 60¡ã. |
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| Create 4 more duplicates of the hand layer and keep rotating at the 60¡ã increments. |
| Open animation window. For the first frame hide all hand layers. | | | Duplicate frame. Move the clouds layer towards the left. Take care to move as much as to achieve the initial position of the clouds after movement. | | | Click tween button in animation window. Apply settings as shown. | | | Select and remove the last frame in animation window. | | | Select the first frame. Unhide the original hand layer. | | | Select the second frame. Hide the original hand layer and unhide the second duplicate of the hand layer. | | | Similarly keep selecting successive frames and hiding/unhiding clock hand layers. | | | | | | Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF. |
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