Post by thugdude on Jan 15, 2006 13:39:37 GMT 8
This is my first step by step tutorial ever, on any forums so don't be too harsh.
1. Set your brushes to default by pressing D on your keyboard.
2. Next, brush your background with black and white, no other colours just black and white.
3. Next make a new layer and then select two colours to use for the gradient, the gradient should go from left to right. Then on the same layer as the gradient, switch the colour mode to overlay.
You can do that as many times as you want if you want more colour.
4. After that, leave to ImageReady, the botttom icon on the tools menu.
5. Open up the animation box.
6. Go to the first box in the animation box and the first layer in the layers box and lower the opacity of every layer except your first layer. Then add another box to the animation section by duplicating the frame. To do htat click on the icon in the animations window that is a squarish shape. And do that for every layer, now the second layers opacity should be 100 and the rest should be 0. For the third(if you have the third) do the same thing 3rd opacity 100 and the others 0.
7. After that all the boxes should look like there gradients do.
8. Next make sure you have lciked on the first animation frame and go to the tween icon in the animation bar which is on the right of the duplication button. It looks like 4 circles joint together. When you've clicked it a bow will pop up and you will have to select a number of things, tween with the next frame, you want to add 10 frames and leave the setting underneath like they were already.
9. After that you have to select all, copy, paste and reverse. Thats done by clicking on the pop out in the animation bar, it is located underneath the close button. Just select all, then go back, copy, go back, paste, go back and reverse.
10. Then when you're done you press play down the bottom and the colour changes.
11. Save optimised as and then save it as gif.
12. Upload it on a site like imageshack or photobucket.
13. Now you're done, After that you can experiment and do heaps of layers and frames etc, add pictures to the moving bg's etc.
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LordFear's Notes...
1. Set your brushes to default by pressing D on your keyboard.
2. Next, brush your background with black and white, no other colours just black and white.
3. Next make a new layer and then select two colours to use for the gradient, the gradient should go from left to right. Then on the same layer as the gradient, switch the colour mode to overlay.
You can do that as many times as you want if you want more colour.
4. After that, leave to ImageReady, the botttom icon on the tools menu.
5. Open up the animation box.
6. Go to the first box in the animation box and the first layer in the layers box and lower the opacity of every layer except your first layer. Then add another box to the animation section by duplicating the frame. To do htat click on the icon in the animations window that is a squarish shape. And do that for every layer, now the second layers opacity should be 100 and the rest should be 0. For the third(if you have the third) do the same thing 3rd opacity 100 and the others 0.
7. After that all the boxes should look like there gradients do.
8. Next make sure you have lciked on the first animation frame and go to the tween icon in the animation bar which is on the right of the duplication button. It looks like 4 circles joint together. When you've clicked it a bow will pop up and you will have to select a number of things, tween with the next frame, you want to add 10 frames and leave the setting underneath like they were already.
9. After that you have to select all, copy, paste and reverse. Thats done by clicking on the pop out in the animation bar, it is located underneath the close button. Just select all, then go back, copy, go back, paste, go back and reverse.
10. Then when you're done you press play down the bottom and the colour changes.
11. Save optimised as and then save it as gif.
12. Upload it on a site like imageshack or photobucket.
13. Now you're done, After that you can experiment and do heaps of layers and frames etc, add pictures to the moving bg's etc.
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LordFear's Notes...
Secondly, A moving background will be a huge document. Photobucket has a 250K limit, so I assure you it will not fit on Photobucket. Anyone doing this tutorial should use Imageshack or some other site with no limit.
