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  Learn how to use a series of photos and frame animation to create an animated GIF. WHAT YOU'LL NEED Get app   Free Photoshop download Get files   Sample file to practice with (ZIP, 25.7 MB) In this tutorial, you'll learn how to turn a series of photos into a looping animated GIF using Photoshop. This technique works well for creating a timelapse animation using series of photos taken from a DSLR or point-and-shoot camera, or even a mobile device. For this example, we'll use a series of photos taken with burst mode from an iPhone. Download and unzip the sample assets above, or use your own sequence of photos. Tip:  You can also use this technique to create an animated GIF from a short video. Scroll down to the Optional Step 1 to learn how to start with a video file.   Import a series of photos Open Photoshop and go to File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack. Click Browse and locate the photos you want to use. While holding down the Shift key, select a...

Photoshop Makeup Tutorial In this walkthrough we’ll be looking at various digital makeup techniques explored in previous articles, as well as a few new tricks thrown in for good measure! Once again some lighting trickery will be utilised to achieve high gloss lipstick, and we’ll also explore rouge and eyeliner effects. As there’s a broad range of tools used, this is a great advanced tutorial to refine your beauty retouch skillset. Getting Started For the example piece, I have used the stock  Clean by faestock (DeviantArt)  – as it’s a lovely sharp image in a large size. Ive applied minimal retouch to begin with, just a subtle brighten of the eyes as well as a  background removal  for a more refined studio look. Brighten Skin Tone A subtle brightened skintone will provide a lighter base on which to apply the digital makeup effects. In this case the brighten will be applied to the entire face and upper torso to keep things uniform. To brighten the skin duplicate your s...

Note: In order to make this action work in any language, we need to take some steps using the menus (instead of shortcuts) so we can fully control the names of every single layer we make. We will also create a PSD template to start with, in order to work more comfortably. Before starting with the tutorial, please download this free font: 1) Let´s start with the template. Go to File > New and set the name of the new document as “Template”, the width to 600 and height to 450 and click OK. Please note that you can set any width and height you wish, but I will be working in a 600 x 450 pixels canvas for you to have a better view on the tutorial screenshots. 2) Press “D” to reset the swatches. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient. Set the name to “Background Sky” and click OK. 3) In the new window, click over the gradient and select the first gradient. We do this on order to set both colors to 100% opacity. 4) Doubl...