To teach you to play the basic operation of PS time axis

Today this easy to understand the good article, starting from scratch with you know PS Timeline tool, attach a super simple color animation example, 10 minutes can learn, to collect!

The first thing we need to know is that PS has 5 types of layers, sequentially pixel layers, adjustment layers, type layers, shape layers, and smart objects. In the corresponding timeline, various types of layers have action attributes corresponding to the timeline, as shown in the figure:

You can learn that all the action attributes are: position, opacity, style, layer mask position, layer mask enable, transform, text warp, vector mask location, vector mask enabled.

Name Description

Position: The position of the element movement in the pixel layer, which is also understood as a displacement, does not contain rotation and scaling, and is not valid for the shape layer.

Opacity: Layer transparency, while adjustment padding is not valid.

Styles: Layer styles, which produce animated variations of various style parameters (i.e., color, angle, size, opacity, etc.).

Layer Mask Location: not described temporarily.

Transform: A property with the most action, which includes moving, scaling, rotating, chamfering, and flipping, so in many cases it is necessary to convert the layer type to a smart object.

Vector Mask Location: The position in which elements are moved in a shape layer.

　　Basic steps for making an animation

1, create a 500pxx500px canvas, pull up the Timeline Panel (window-timeline),

Click Create Timeline button, wait a moment!!! Because there is only one layer, so it is best to create a new layer and then click on this button, of course, if you want to do the background transparent can be directly clicked (in fact, to do the transparent background only need to hide the background image on the line), otherwise in the production of animation will have a lot of

Extra words:

I suggest that when you want to do a design, the new file with background layer (Chettu and a few special circumstances can create a new transparent background of the ~), retain the original ecological pure background layer, when you do not need to hide. Otherwise, even if you create a new background layer, plus any lock, and change it to the same ID, it is always not a pure background layer, smart look at the font you know.

　2, make a color change animation

First of all, to do a layer of color changes in the action, is the timeline of which action attributes, we can easily know is a style, and if you change the color of the layer image itself, you cannot produce animation.

Draw a circle with the shape tool first, then click on a small clock next to the style in the timeline panel to enable keyframes (appear prism) animation → add layer style to layer → color overlay tick and give any color,

Then go back to the timeline to drag the timeline to where you want → Double-click the layer to bring up the layer style → set another color in the color overlay

This is the time to make the animation of the color change, then you can adjust the position of the key frame, the length of the animation, the length of the clip (when the export takes effect)

If you want to adjust the frame rate, click on the upper right corner of the timeline → Set the timeline frame rate

Finally, export the animation, file → save for the web format → select gif format → cycle options, if the file is too large, you can again ensure the quality of the picture to reduce the color value → export

Now you have mastered the most basic steps to make an animated GIF!

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