Today we are going to finish the simple video tutorial in which we did a banner, and where we have learned how to use the Timeline tool to make a simple and effective sequence of images.
While in the video tutorial above, Video-Tutorial: How to make a moving banner in Photoshop easily, we saw how to make a simple composition of a banner with an image downloaded from the internet and some layers of text, in today's post, How to make a moving banner in Photoshop easily (conclusion), let's give animation to that composition.
- We open the file that came from previous video tutorial.
- Let's go to the palette Layers.
- We turn off the display of all the layers except the background layer, which in this case will be under a black background.
- We go to the route Window- Timeline.
- This window is a simple sequencer that allows us to sequence the images of the layers of which our file is composed, and thus give it a feeling of movement and dynamism to our banner. We are going to sequence our banner.
- We started as we already said at point 3, with the visualization of all the layers turned off except the background layer.
- Already in the window of the Timeline tool, we go to the first box in the sequence. It's the only one out there right now and will have a 1 marked in the upper left corner. That is the image with which our sequence begins.
- In the lower right corner will have a number, which designates the amount of time this box will be visible in our sequence. You will now have 1 second marked. We click on the little arrow next to it and from the menu that comes out, we choose 0 seconds.
- At the bottom of the Timeline tool dialog box, there is a player and some more options. There is one that is a little square with a bent corner. Right next to a trash can. That tool is Duplicate selected frame. We right click on it to duplicate frame number 1.
- Now we go to Layers window and we activate the display of the Milton and Sandwich layers.
- We go to frame number 2 and in the time menu we choose option 1second.
- We return to the option Duplicate frame and we duplicate square number 2 to have number 3.
- From this box number 3 we go to the Layers window and activate the display of the text layer whose content falls inside the sandwich.
- We return to the Timeline window and in frame 3 we change the duration time to 2 seconds.
- We duplicate the last frame again to obtain the number 4.
- We go to Layers window again and activate one of the remaining text layers.
- Back in the Timeline window we change the duration to 1 second.
- We doubled for the last time. Issue 5.
- We head back to the Layers window and we activate the last text layer.
- We change the duration to 5 seconds.
- Now we give play in the player or the space bar.
- Once happy with the result, we export from File-Save for Web.
- We keep our file in GIF and making sure that we export from the first box of the sequence.
- Ready to use your banner in GIF.