GIF animation tutorial for making fluttering hair in Photoshop

Those local GIF dynamic images are so interesting that people can not help admiring the author's ideas. This issue of the small series with the photo gallery as an example, and you share the production of GIF images. In particular, this tutorial is aimed at the photography of film festivals, if users want to make other effects of GIF images, settings will be slightly different, do not explain here.

I. Dump PSD file

GIF images can contain a variety of image data, and can be read out, form a simple animation form of the picture format, commonly known as Flash map. To make a GIF image, you first need to prepare a number of photos, cut into the same size.

Drag all the image files to one of the files, unlock the background layer, make all layers into a working layer, and save as a psd file with multiple layers

Second, switch to the animation production interface (only PS CS3 version can perform this operation)

If you make sure all the layers have been trimmed, you can switch to the animation screen to generate GIF. Click the Photoshop window-animation, the animation will appear in front of a small check, then look at the lower left corner of the screen, you will find an animation window.

Three, clear each frame image and layer's relation

As shown in the animated editing window, each frame image corresponds to a layer, click on the image in the animation window, Layer action page and the corresponding layer will become visual state. Each frame of the image series into a small animation, that is, the corresponding layer in tandem, because each layer image of the different, so the series of frames to form a change. GIF is actually a different image in tandem, loop play.

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