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How to Create an Animated .GIF in Photoshop CS5, CS6 & CC

Let’s say you have a folder full of images that you want to sequence together as frames in an animated GIF. You can find special programs online to do this, but with some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop, it’s quite fast and simple. Gather the images you want to animate into one folder. Click  File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack . When the “Load Layers” window pops up, click  Browse  to select & open your image files, and then click  OK . This should import the files you selected as individual layers in your document. Rearrange the layers into the correct order, if necessary. This next step differs depending on what version of Photoshop you have: For Photoshop CS5: Open the Animation palette ( Window > Animation ). For Photoshop CS6: Open the Timeline palette ( Window > Timeline  ). For Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud): Open the Timeline palette ( Window > Timeline  ). In the middle of the palette, you will see a button wit...

How to create an animated GIF in Photoshop

Make an animated GIF that cycles through several images to create a slideshow that plays automatically on the web. Creating an animation isn’t as complicated as it sounds, and the technique comes in handy when you’re making web ads, where space is at a premium. In this column, you’ll learn to use Photoshop to make an animated GIF that cycles through several images—including ones with text—to create a slideshow that plays automatically on the web. Design the animation Fire up Photoshop (CS6 Extended or any version of CC) and choose File > New. In the resulting dialog box, enter the animation width and height (say, 300x250 pixels). Enter 72 for resolution, set the Color Mode menu to RGB, and choose sRGB from the Color Profile menu. sRGB is the standard color space for the Internet, so designing in that space avoids color shifting when you save the file. Next, create the content using layers. To add images to the document, choose File > Place Embedded (...

Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

  Step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop with the following settings : Add the Forest Step 2 Go to File > Place Embedded and place the forest image to main document. Step 3 Time to add sharpness to forest using High Pass filter. Duplicate the forest layer by CTRL + J . Convert the duplicated forest layer into Smart Objects . Now go to Filter > Other > High Pass and apply it with the following settings : If you don’t add the sharpness to forest then you’ll have a blurred background for deer. Step 4 Make a Curves adjustment layer and reduce the brightness of the forest. To add an adjustment layer, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves or click the third icon at the bottom of layer panel. On the layer mask of Curves , mask the effect on the selected part using a soft round black brush as I am aiming to create light source on the left side of the scene. Use a soft, basic black brush for masking the effect with lowe...

How To Create a Realistic Pencil Sketch Effect in Photoshop

One of the classic Photoshop tutorial topics is the creation of a pencil drawing effect from a photograph. It’s one of those quick and simple techniques that produces a satisfying result, which makes the tutorial great for beginners. Throughout its history, Photoshop has featured lots of built-in filters that produce various sketch and artistic effects, but they don’t exactly produce a realistic outcome. In this tutorial I’ll show some clever steps that will transform a photograph into a hand drawn pencil sketch, which can even be fine tuned to find the most authentic look. The effect we’ll be creating in this tutorial mimics the lines and shading of a pencil drawing. Producing this style of artwork for real would take hours of work for even the most talented artist, but the power of Photoshop gives us the ability to replicate it pretty well in just minutes. This makes it much more feasible to use the sketched look within your designs that might require an ‘artsy’ t...

Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Adobe Photoshop CC

In this video and post I’ll cover 28 great features, tricks, hacks, and more of Adobe Photoshop CC 2015. Some are simple, some are difficult, some are well known, and some are more like Easter eggs. If you want to learn about multiple layer styles, layer mask tricks, whitening teeth, black and white photos, precision with the Brush tool, and a bunch more, this is the tutorial for you! 1. Quickly Whiten Teeth Go Layer->New Adjustment Layer->Vibrance and reduce the Vibrance to “-60”. Next select the Vibrance layer in the layers panel and specifically choose the layer mask. In the Properties Panel (Window->Properties) select the “Invert” button to fill our mask with black to hide the desaturation that we just imposed on the Vibrance layer. Next select the Brush tool (B) and I’ll grab a small, soft edged brush and look to the control bar across the top of the screen and set the Opacity to “50%”. Paint over the teeth you’d like to whiten for a realistic an...