In this tutorial you will learn how to combine Motion, Opacity and Effect tweens in ImageReady.

1. Open up a new document, you can choose whatever size you want, but for this tutorial I did 300x100.

2. Fill the background with whatever you want. It can be a color or an image. I filled it with blue and applied a square pattern.

3. Choose the text tool and type some text in one of the corners of the image. It should now look something like this:


4. Click the "Jump to ImageReady" button on the bottom of the toolbar.


The rest of the steps will be done in ImageReady.

5. Make sure your animation window is open (Window > Open).

6. Now, apply some layer styles to the layer that has text on it. You can do this by clicking the little 'f' on the bottom of the layers window, or by going to Layer > Layer Styles. To change the settings for the layer styles open up your Layer > Layer Options/Style window.
I applied a dropshadow and bevel and emboss. For the best results in the end of the animation, make the layer styles low. For example, I chose a height of 2 for the Bevel and emboss and a distance of 3 for the dropshadow.

7. When You're done applying the layer styles, change the opacity of the layer with the text to something really low. I used 15%.


8. Now, go to your image ready and click the new frame button.


9. With the new frame selected, and the layer with text selected, drag the text to the top corner of the canvas. Once you've done that, change the layer styles applied and make them higher. I used a dropshadow with a distance of 21 and size of 7, and I made the bevel and emboss height 5.


10. Next, hold down the Shift key and click on both of the frames in the Animation window so they are selected.


11. With both of them selected, press the tween buton (). Here's what your tween window should look like:

Note: You can choose to add more frames if you want.

Your animation window should now look something like this:


12. We're almost done. Choose the first frame, and click the little arrow. This will open up a menu where you can choose the delay between this frame and the next frame. Since this is the first frame, it's best to choose a time that's a little longer than the frames in the middle. I chose 1 second for the first and last frame.

For the middle frames I chose a shorter time, 0.1 seconds.

Once you've chosen a time for all of the frames you can press the play button at the bottom of the Animation window to preview it. After that just go to File > Save Optimized As, and save it as a gif.

Here's what I came up with:

This post has been edited by Josh: Apr 5 2004, 08:46 PM

cool, nice tutorial Josh

i'm going to have to play around with this when i get on a computer with PS

thats a nice little animation josh if it were somewhat smaller it could make a cool button to the forum boards.

Thanks

good tutorials thank for it because u say : i upload in a few time a imageready tutorial an u did it.


thanksss

but i have a problem whit my gif

i can see it in the image ready but in internet or in my documents doesnt work

plz help me

This post has been edited by _^KaI^_: Apr 25 2004, 10:47 PM

Hi, I'm glad it was some help

Make sure you go to file > save optomized as in imageready.

Josh! THANKYOU!! THIS IS AWESOME!!!! *ahem*

Ast.

You're welcome!

Welcome to the forums

Thankies

Ast.

Welcome to the forums Asthenia

by the way, i can see the white in the background

Thanks Leo

Owwww poo.. Thanks ..again

Ast.

very nice josh ! I really needed to know how to make such "flash" in imageready, didn't know how to make a erhm.. a "flash-sig" like that, I'm suffering heavy brain damage today I think (can't find the words for stuff )

I'll make a new tutorial if you want, just let me konw what you want it on.

oh, I think I saw something like.. squares representing an easy "meter" on a sig/avatar, I suppose he changed the opacity on the squares to make it look .. cool so say the first square from bottom to top.. was 100%, then next was 66% etc.. 100, 66, 33, 66, 100 I think ? or something.. yeah yeah.. something like that was it If you have time you could do that to.. but maybe it isnt so different from this... great tut anyways !

It's not much different, all it is is an opacity tween, like the one demonstrated up there.

I could make one on a more specific effect though.