In this section, we'll look at how to design a GIF animated banner using Fireworks MX 2004, taking a promotional Tianzhushan banner as an example, primarily familiar with the use of tools such as frame panels, animations, and components in fireworks. A . png file is provided at the end of the article for you to download reference.
Complete the effect as shown:
(1) Create a new file of size 468x60, set its canvas color to transparent, and import a bitmap image of the car to get the image shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Creating a new file and importing the image
(2) Select the image of the car, click the "Modify" menu, select "Symbol" | "Convert to symbol", this time will jump out of the Component Properties dialog box, the graphic file named "Car Figure 1", as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2 Converting an image to a graphic symbol
(3) Click OK, at which point the bitmap image has been converted to a graphic component, as shown in Figure 3. Select the graphic symbol, click the Modify menu, select Animation | Choose Animation, jump out of the animation dialog box, set the number of frames to 10, and move to 380, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 3 Converting to graphic symbols
Figure 4 Setting the animation Properties Figure 5 Pop-up dialog box
(4) Click OK, then jump out of the dialog shown in Figure 5, ask if you want to add a new frame, select OK, and then you have added a new frame in the frame panel to get the animated symbol image shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6 Animation symbol image
(5) The default frame delay time is too short, you can set the previous 9 frame delay to 10, frame delay of the 10th frame for 35来 control the effect of motor vehicle movement. To always be able to display the 10th frame image on this GIF animation, it is necessary to copy the image effect of frame 10th to all subsequent frames. The design of this animation has 30 frames, so the following 20 frames need to have this 10th frame of the car image. Here you call the graphical symbols in the library to implement the first car diagram in all frames. Open the Frame panel, create a new frame, and set its frame delay to 10. Click the onion skin tool in the frame panel and select "Before and after" in the pop-up menu so that you can see the car image for frame 10th when you edit frame 11th. Click Windows, select Library, and open the library panel. Discover that there is an animation symbol in the library panel and a graphic symbol, called car graphics 1, that you started to save, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7 Library Panel
(6) Drag the graphic component from the library panel to the canvas so that it is fully aligned with the 10th frame of the car graphic. Get the image of frame 11th, as shown in Figure 8.
(7) Select Frame 11th, click the button in the Frame panel, select "Reset Frame" in the pop-up menu, and set the number of frames in the pop-up dialog box to 9, as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9 Copying Frame 11th
(8) Select frame 11th to import another car image, as shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10 Importing another car image
(9) Also click the Modify menu, select Symbol | Convert to symbol, and in the Symbol Properties dialog box, name the graphic file "car Figure 2", as shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11 Converting an image to a graphic symbol
(10) Click "OK", when the bitmap image has been converted to a graphic component. Select the graphic symbol, click the Modify menu, select Animation | Choose Animation, jump out of the animation dialog box, set the number of frames to 10, move to 290, and get the image shown in Figure 13.
Figure 12 The first two animation symbols
(11) The frame delay for frame 20th frames is 35, 11 frames to 19 frame frame delay is 10. Then create a new frame and set the frame delay to 10, and drag "car figure 1" and "Car Figure 2" from the library panel onto the canvas so that it is fully aligned with the image in frame 20th, as shown in Figure 14.
Figure 13 21 Frame Image
(12) Select Frame 21st, and the 7th step, and then make it 9 times. Import a third car map in 21 frames, placing the first half of the car in the canvas as if the car were coming in gradually. Next, as before, convert it to a graphic symbol, set the animation effect, set its frame number to 10, and move to 100, as shown in Figure 15.
Figure 14 Importing a third car map and setting up animations
(13) Drag the "Car Figure 3" component to frame 30th and align with the animation symbol. Next, add two small circles and a rounded rectangle to the image, and add the word "I'm going to Tianzhushan" in the rectangle to enhance the effect, as shown in Figure 16.
Figure 15 30 Frame image
(14) Set the frame delay of the 30th frame to 200, so that it can display for a long time. Finally save the file and export it as a GIF file so that you can use the GIF image on your personal web page. . png file Download
