1 [IR]ImageReady Tutorial Sand Dragon Animation Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:52 am
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<LI>You will need to open the sand dunes image
<LI>You will also need the dragon
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<LI>You will also need the dragon
1. Open your sand dunes image. Click Image=>image size. resize the image so it is 750 wide. and constrain proportions. | <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=300 align=center> <TR> <td>[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</TD> <td rowSpan=2>[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</TD></TR> <TR> <td>[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</TD></TR></TABLE> |
2. Click Image=> canvas size.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]3. Click Image=> canvas size.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]4. Duplicate the back ground to make a layer called "top dunes". Select the bottom two dunes using the magnetic lasso tool. Click the Add layer mask button on the bottom of the layers palette. 5. Right Click on the background layer and select duplicate. Call this layer Dragon Scales. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] 6. Use the magnetic lasso tool to select the next dune back. Click add layer mask button on the bottom of the layers palette. Click back on the image on the dragon scales layer instead of the mask. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] 7. Click Filter=> texture=> Texturizer. Click on Texture type: load texture. Search your hard drive for your adobe folder, photoshop 7+>presets=> textures. Select the snakeskin.psd file inside this folder. Set the following settings to your texturizer.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Click back on the background layer. Turn the eye off on the top dunes and the dragon scales layers 8. Open your image of the sand dragon head. Click Image=> Mode=> RGB. Select your magic wand tool and set the options to [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Use the wand to select the black surrounding the dragon head. Click Select=> inverse. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]9. Use your move tool to drag this image onto your dunes canvas. Position the dragon so the top of the horns are just at the top of the dune which was the dragon scale dune. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]10. Click image=> adjust=> Hue/Saturation. Adjust the hues to match the shades of the dunes. I used the following:
11. Turn on the eye for the dragon scales layer and the topdunes. Creating the animation 12. SWITCH TO IMAGE READY. 13. Open the Animation panel. Set the time of frame 1 at 0.5 seconds. Click the duplicate current frame icon on the bottom of the animation panel. 14. Select the move tool. Make sure the Bounding box option is NOT selected. Move the sanddragon head on frame 2 up till it is near the top of the image. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]15. Click back on frame 1. Click the carrot on the right side of the animation panel banner and select TWEEN. Set the following:
16. Set the new frames, 2-5, to a time of 0.1 seconds. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]17. Click on frame 2. Hold your shift key down and click on frame 5. This will highlight frames 2-5.
17. Click on frame one. Click image=>image size. set the width to 300 by 200 high and constrain proportions. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]18. Use your slice tool to make a slice that will contain all of your animated dragon. At least two other slices will result as default. Set the animated slice to the following:
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]19. Use the slice tool to click on the other two slices, one at a time and set the image to JPG 45% 20 Click Save=>optimized as. Set to HTML and graphics. <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=300 align=center> <TR> <td>[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</TD> <td rowSpan=2>[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</TD></TR> <TR> <td>[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</TD></TR></TABLE> |