How to Create an Animated GIF in Photoshop CC

well hey everybody welcome into this Adobe Photoshop tutorial brought to you as always by vidcom today we're going to take a look at this kind of cool little hand-drawn animation style effect I think you'll really like it let's just jump into the tutorial and check it out and learn how to do a thing or two in Photoshop alright well as I said a little bit of a sketch effect here this sort of animated sketch effect in Photoshop you saw an example of it a moment ago and for me it all begins with a stock photo you can do this with any object you like but a water buffalo a bull come on pretty cool I'm gonna grab my rectangular marquee tool and just loop a selection around the bottom bull here I don't need the guy over black and I'm gonna say hey image crop to just cut away everything else and then select deselect to get rid of my selection and then I'm gonna go ahead and just make this a little bit smaller it looks like it's pretty small but we are only at 25% if you can see that down there so I'm actually going to zoom us in to 100% and then go image image size and the width is 4,000 pixels let's knock it down to 2,000 just to make things a little more manageable here alright now I'm going to just click on the little unlock icon there for this layer and I'm gonna set the opacity of this layer to maybe about 50% just so I can see a rough outline that's all I really need and I'm going to hit my little half-black half-white circle and add a gradient fill layer and what I'm gonna do is choose I've got this kind of blueish blue to blue or teal the teal type gradients I'm gonna hit okay and I think I'm gonna set it to an angle of negative 90 something like that and maybe even drag this down a little bit to get more of my darker blues involved and also dither it here and I'm gonna hit okay I'm gonna drag the bull up on top of this and then I'm going to create a new layer here's where we're gonna go ahead and bring in a Wacom tablet the wonderful Wacom and what I'm gonna do is grab my brush tool and I'll probably open up my brush panel this is the brush settings but something like that is good enough I'm gonna begin with a pretty big brush so I've got a 30 pixel hard-edged brush you can see here's the size 30 pixels and the hardness is at 100% you probably want to roll with 100% hardness here I'm gonna make this even bigger though I'm gonna push it up closer probably to 100 maybe let's go 80-85 here I've got shape dynamics ticked on because I am using my Wacom tablet so the control is gonna be pen pressure which is gonna just give me a little more variation on my strokes that's fine and I can close this guy off and I'm gonna paint with my foreground color set to black and all I want to do is just quickly draw these lines all around the bowl just like this until I get just a loop completely around him so you can undo a stroke here there and just go over it very very loosely you can be as precise or as loose as you want I'm choosing to be pretty pretty loose here and that's totally fine and also attack it from multiple sides so I'm drawing a little bit here on the right side then I'm drawing a little bit here on the left side make sure I get his little chin down there and then I'm gonna get the nostrils and I'll probably also just get sort of the brow line just like that so now if I shut off the bull we've got this very rough outline of the bull on this layer that's great but what I want to do as well is add a lot of fine find the little strokes around this to really make it look a little more sketchy and and just rough so I could right click here and make the size of my brush much smaller and draw with this and just begin you know creating all these like sort of sketch lines like this so the idea is for it to be very very rough now I'm gonna tell you why I'm not gonna do this in this step and I am gonna complete this first one because I've started here so we'll just go through and just sketch sketch sketch it doesn't matter how wild or crazy you go and really the size of the sketches doesn't even matter like that if you want to go with a ton of really thin lines or you want to do a thick and thin mixture like I'm doing here you can really do whatever you like anything works for this particular style so something like that now the reason I don't normally like to do this is because you're gonna be switching between two brushes a lot 17 pixel brush and an 82 pixel brush so what I would recommend is just do all of your sketches with the thick lines first and then go back over the layers and you do the thin lines now why am I talking about multiple layers well because we're gonna shut off layer one and we're gonna do that exact process we just did nine more times we need to create ten of those layers so here on layer two I'm gonna just go over and do the same exact thing so we'll go over and trace over this guy now one thing you may want to do you can enter back into your brush panel and turn on smoothing and that's gonna turn on this smoothing option out here and that'll allow you to get a different style of line where you can just pull through and get very very smooth lines right and just have the brush sort of slowed down a little bit for you and just go through and get some different lines it wouldn't hurt to do a couple of your layers with the really smooth lines maybe you really love the smooth line effect and you want to do all of them with smooth lines I guess that's fine too but I don't really like the smooth line effect quite as much even though I am finishing my layer two with the smooth lines and then I'll create a new layer and really I'm just gonna speed up the video at this point and knock out the rest of these and I'll be back in just a second when we're ready to kind of make the brush a little bit smaller and just go in and really detail out these lines a little bit more and there we are back just as if it took no time at all now instead of previewing all of the sketching that I just did we're gonna go ahead and knock out the bull layer and begin the animation so we can just kind of check it out and see what this really looks like start to finish so I'm gonna scroll down here and I'm gonna select the bull I think I actually want to be part of our composition so I'm just gonna shut off that layer one sketch no sketches on top of the bull reset the opacity to 100% and let's go for knocking out all of the white here a few different ways we can do this what I'm gonna do is just use my magic wand tool and click once to select a sort of all the white and then go select select and mask and let's try to knock all of that out so we can see there's the bull let's go ahead and invert this whole thing real quick and you can see we're getting a lot of this kind of D fringing down here while now D fringing fringing that needs to be D fringed I should say now we're not really concerned about the integrity of these edges all that much I just don't want this kind of big you know halo eNOS happening so let's first of all smooth this a lot let's feather it a bunch as well and then we're gonna contrast it inward a bit to just kind of suck that line in and then shift the edge in quite a bit just kind of until the bulk of it's gone again the bull most of this edge is going to be covered with all of that sketching and those lines that we created so just having it kind of nice and clean like this will work great for us we don't need to worry about decontaminate we're just gonna output this to a layer mask no new layers nothing like that hit OK and now we have a nice clean selection of our bull you can see there's the layer mask for him and we're seeing around the bull all this blue background one exception be there's a little bit of white junk there but we're not gonna worry about that alright before we begin the animation the last thing before we actually begin is we just want to invert all of our sketching lines from white or from black to white we sketch them in black because it was just easier to see so you can select each layer and shake command or control eye that's going to just flip it to white so we have these nice white lines happening on top of our our top on top of our photo here so it's real a real quick little process here just turning the layers on and just command or control eye all the way through make sure you can turn it on select the layer commander control I've voila alright well we want to shut all these layers off I'm gonna pull my layers panel down a little bit so we can see a little bit more of it make sure you select the top layer 10 hold down shift and select all the way back to layer 2 and then just hit the command comma key so that's control comma for the PC just gonna hide those layers now before we do this I want to I want to make the bull blend with our background a little more so he's kind of sticking out there a little bit too much so select the gradient fill layer hold down alt or option drag that gradient up on top of the bull and then we want to clip it to the layer beneath using the hotkey command option G that's ctrl alt G on the PC and we're gonna set this layer to the blend mode of color and I will reduce the opacity of this color this color layer I should call it to about 50% and then we're gonna duplicate it commander control J we're going to need to clip it again so a command option G that's ctrl alt G on the PC and this layer we're gonna set to the blend mode of overlay and crank the opacity back to 100% so now the bull is looking pretty blue he still carries some of his original colors through but he definitely fits with the scene a bit more and our animated lines are gonna dance around of the outline of this Bulls head all right let's go window timeline here's where the animation happens my timeline is hidden way down here and it's huge you really don't need to see your document for this it's gonna be a pretty simple frame animation from the drop down you could go video timeline we don't want that we want to make sure we create the frame animation and click the button there we go and what I have here is this is 0 seconds the is how much time is going to elapse for this frame I want to say no delay zero seconds I don't want zero point one or two you could do zero point one I guess but no delay I think looks the best so I'm gonna stick with no delay and here's our first frame of our animation is our first sketch great I'm gonna hit the new button that's gonna create another frame and all I need to do is shut off layer 1 and turn on layer 2 and then create another frame shut off layer to turn on layer 3 create another frame shut off layer 3 turn on layer 4 create another frame you can see here where we're going we're gonna have 10 frames for our animation it's gonna look pretty wild go ahead and create the seventh frame that means I'm turning on layer 7 of course create the 8th frame turn on layer 8 shut off layer 7 I'm just shutting off all the other layers so we just have our one sketch it's gonna jump from sketch to sketch to sketch just like that alright so now if I go ahead and play this you're gonna see the effect that we're getting it's this dancing hand-drawn effect it's so super fun and so super easy to do so at this point of course you can make it even more complex by maybe doing 20 of these layers or adding additional layers of the small sketching or just getting a better job with the sketching than I did maybe it would be a start but we're just trying to trying to get through this quick quick quick so once we have our animation laid out like this right so we just play through it we've got our lines dancing around looking nice we want to export this we want to share it on Twitter we're going to share it on Facebook or on our Instagram or wherever we want to export this as an animated gif so I'm gonna say export for gifts I still like to go to the old save for web legacy dialog box I just like it the most and you can see here we can choose a gif from the file type and I'm gonna leave everything the way it is I do want the max colors which is 256 with the gradient in the background you're gonna see some little stepping and things like that but you know it is what it is the most important thing is down here under animation looping options we want to make sure we set it to loop forever the other alternative is once or other you can specify you want it to loop 5 times or something like that but forever it just means that anytime anyone sees it if they leave it on their screen for a year it will just keep looping and looping and looping and doing that drawing effect it's a perfect let's loop and you go ahead and hit save and here on my desktop I'll just save it as bull sketching dot gif or Jif and save and you will have exported your animation from Photoshop that easily in fact they can jump out to my desktop I can hit that little gif preview it and there we go animating and dancing just like it should be so there you have it as I said pretty simple pretty easy to do but a whole lot of fun if you did enjoy this tutorial make sure you hit the red button there's an example of it but don't just hit the red button and subscribe to my youtube channel make sure you hit the little bell which will turn on your notifications so every time a Photoshop tutorial like this goes out you'll get a little notification I appreciate your support so much so for learning a little bit about the brush tool some different layers and timeline animation here in Adobe Photoshop that's it get it got it good Athena Dodds I'm tuck viacom I'll catch you in the next one and before you go make sure you subscribe to my channel for more great tutorials every day also by my course it helps us do what we do and this channel is supported by viewers just like you you can also just click the thumbnail and watch another video from this channel see you next time guys [Music]

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Id: vmk3vt_152Q

Length: 12min 20sec (740 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2019