Blur Text Transition

Step 1:
To start, open up an advertisement banner, or the document on which you want to apply the effect to. I used the following banner, you can download the .psd in the members section.

Step 2:
OK, So basically this is how the effect works: you have one line of text, and then it blurs out and a new line of text appears. To start grab the Text Tool and type out three lines of text. Each on there own layer and on top of each other. In our case we used:
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Step 3:
Now We have to create 3 blurred layers. To do this simply make a copy of one of your text layers (CTRL+J), Rasterize the copy (Layer>rasterize>type), and apply motion blur with the following settings:

Step 4:
Duplicate the blurred layer 3 times (CTRL+J x3), then merge them together (CTRL+E x3). We do this to make the blur a bit more visible. You should now have a blur layer like mine.

Step 5:
Create a blurred layer for each line of text you have (in our case three). You’re layers should look similar to mine.

Step 6:
Hide all of the text and blurred layers except for the un-blurred first line of text. To do this simple un-check the eyeball next to each layer.

Step 7:
Open up the animation Window. To do this go to Window>Animation. It looks something like this.

Note: in older versions of Photoshop you must switch over to Imageready.

Step 8:
Set the delay of the first frame to 3 seconds. Create a new frame, now hide the line of text, and un-hide its blur layer. Here’s how frame 2 should look.

Step 9:
Create a new frame, on this frame lower the opacity of the blur layer buy 10%. Continue creating new frames and lowing the opacity all the way down to 20%.

Step 10:
On the 20% frame un-hide the second line of text. Now create a new frame and hide the blur layer, leaving the second line of text. Set the delay to 3 seconds. You should now have something like this:

Step 11:
Repeat this process for the remaining two lines of text, when you finish it should look like this:

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Basic Animation in Photoshop

Step 1- Choose a picture

I used this nice picture that I found on stock exchange... You can of course use any picture you want. Resize the picture; you can do it at the very end if you want. It helps with the animation.

Step 2- Make it look more suitable.

Now to make a picture have an interesting, dark effect, I like to achieve that by loading the luminosity of the image as a selection and an alpha channel. To do that go to your channels palette. Next ctrl, or command click on the rgb thumbnail to load the luminosity. With that selected, create a new alpha channel.

Now, with that still selected fill it with white,

Then go to Select>Inverse and fill it now with black.

First deselect, next we invert it, Image>Adjustments>Invert, or simply press ctrl or command “I”.

Now, switch back to your rgb layers, create a new layer, go to Select>Load Selection make sure it is set to Alpha 1, click ok.

You should now have a selection, with the new layer selected, fill it with black. Ok, play with the opacity to your liking, merge the two layers.

Step 3- Create rain

First create a new layer, fill it with a 50% gray or whatever color you want. Now add 400% noise, check Gaussian, and monochromatic. Now rotate the layer 90 degrees. Then go to Filter>Blur>Blur. After that go to Filter>Stylize>Wind. Choose Blast. Run the filter one more time if you like. Rotate the layer back to the original place. To get the white rain drops, simply invert the layer ctrl I

Alright, to make it look like a never-ending pattern, go to Filter>Other>Offset. Depending on your image the settings may vary. Get rid of the line with the clone stamp, or even the patch tool. Now define the layer as a pattern. We are now done creating the rain.

Step 4 - Animation

Ok, now define the rain as a pattern so go to Edit>Define Pattern. Now you don’t need that layer anymore since we saved it as a pattern, delete it or hide it if you want.

Create a new layer, fill it with any color you want, double click on the layer to open the layer styles, choose pattern overlay, the rain you created should be the last on the list. I used soft light for the blend mode, and changed the opacity to 60%. Then go back to the blending options change the fill opacity to 0%.

Alright, time for the actual animation. Go to Window>Animation to open up the timeline.

Click the little clock right next the rain layer name. For me it is called layer 3. That will insert a keyframe, open up the rain layer style box.

Now, hold down shift and drag down a couple of times to simulate the rain fall. Now move the slider to your desired stop time. For me I set it to 3 seconds. With the slider at the end of your animation do the EXACT same thing you did to the first key frame. Doing so will insert a key frame automatically so don’t worry about that.

Almost done, move your slider left to right and you should see the animation. It will be choppy because the frames are not rendered. To render the frames just hit the space bar. It may take a while, but you should get a smooth animation simulating rain fall, I recommend making the image smaller.

Conclusion

Ok that pretty much covers it. Pretty quick, and easy. If you want to change the direction of the rain, just convert the layer to a smart object and rotate it. You can even add a fade in, but I will show you how to do that in another tutorial:). Play around with it, have fun.

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Abstract Shine Animation with Photoshop and ImageReady

Few days ago, I was playing with Photoshop and ImageReady, and I came up with something really delicious :). I was trying to make an animated Display Picture or Avatar for Windows Live Messenger 9 (which supports recently animated avatars). So I mastered an amazing technique that I’m going over step by step below. Note that this is an advanced tutorial because it involves the usage of Pen Tool, Layer Mask and Tween (ImageReady). Here’s what we’ll be working on

Let’s start:

Step 1

Open Adobe Photoshop and press CTRL + N to create a new image:

Step 2

Set the background color to #000000 (black) and the foreground to #122c52.

Step 3

Filter > Render > Clouds to get something like the following:

Step 4

Select the Pen Tool, make sure the “Paths” option is selected in the toolbar. Draw the following shape:

Step 5

CTRL + SHIFT + N to create a new layer (Layer 2).

Step 6

Select the Brush Tool, set the Foreground color to #ffffff (white), master diameter to 4px and hardness to 100%.

Make sure your selected brush supports Simulating Pressures:

Step 7

Select the Pen Tool again, right click on the image and press Stroke Path…

Step 8

Set the following options in the Stroke Path dialog:

Step 9

CTRL + SHIFT + N to create the third layer.

Step 10

Select the Brush Tool again and increase the Master Diameter to 5px.

Step 11

Right click again on the image and press the stroke path. Then apply the same options.

Step 12

Hide the Layer 3 by unsetting the eye in the layers panel:

Step 13

Select the Layer 2 from the Layers panel. Then, Layers > Layer Style > Blending Options… and set the following settings (Outer Glow and Color Overlay):

Step 14

You will get something simillar to this (do not remove the pen tool selection):

Step 15

Now, we’re done with Photoshop, we’ll start editing with ImageReady:

Step 16

ImageReady will open. Window > Workplace > Default Workplace to arrange your windows.

Step 17

Window > Animation to show the animation window:

Step 18

Now, we will show the Layer 3 (that we already hided in Photoshop) by setting the eye back.

Step 19

Be careful here!!! Drag the Layer 3 in the Layers Panel to the “Add a mask” button in the bottom to create a mask of that layer. Select the Brush tool and clean up the white area in the mask. Then unset the link between the layer preview and the mask:

Step 20

Here’s the tricky part. Although it can be done in many ways, but i find this way the easiest. Select the Brush Tool (I think it’s already selected :)), set the foreground color to #ffffff (white) and select the following Brush:

Step 21

Make sure the mask is selected! draw with you free hand a line like this (Note that you will only see this line in the Mask preview in the layer panel):

Step 22

You should see in the Layers panel the following:

Step 23

Let’s start with the animation now. Press the 1st Frame in the Animation windows and press “Duplicate current frame” icon to duplicate the layers state.

Step 24

Now make sure the the mask of the layer 3 is selected, select the Move tool and Press Shirt + Right like 25 times to reach the following state:

Step 25

So, we have moved the line mask from left to right. It’s time to animate it! The frame 2 is selected, hold CTRL and click on frame 1 to make them both selected. Then press the Tween icon:

Step 26

Apply the following Tween settings:

Step 27

A set of frames will be created for you. Select the 1st frame, scroll to the end, hold SHIFT and click the last frame. You will have all the Frames selected. Click the delay drop down on any of the selected frames and choose Other:

Step 28

Enter 0.03 seconds as a delay between the frames:

Step 29

Now select the last Frame alone by clicking on it, and set its delay to 5 seconds:

Step 30

We’re done. It’s time to save the animation as gif. Make sure the format in the "Optimize" panel is GIF:

Step 31

File > Save Optimized As!

Open it with Firefox, because Firefox renders the Gif formats faster than Internet Explorer (I’m not sure about Safari or other browsers).