This is pretty much my first tutorial, sort of. Definitely my first animated icon tutorial. I decided to make an easy-to-follow tut because I can't count the amount of times I'd searched around for tutorials on how to make animated images, only to discover nothing made any sense or I got lost along the way because the instructions were so confusing. SO. Hopefully, this tutorial will be useful and helpful to others who are in the same boat as I was - want to learn how to make smooth, good-quality animated icons and want easy-to-understand instructions on how to do so.
TUTORIAL: How to make smooth, good-quality animated icons.Today, we'll be making this icon:
Programmes: VirtualDub (for screencapping), Adobe Photoshop CS - CS2 and Adobe ImageReady.
Involves: How to screencap, how to import frames and images, how to crop, colour adjustment layers, tweening, how to optimise animated icons to fit 40K, how to set timing for icons.
Translatable: Probably not. :-(
Steps: For screencapping: 4 steps. For making the icon: 15 steps.
Difficulty: Actually really easy once you know how to do it. But I will go with Medium - Hard.
WARNING: THIS IS
VERY IMAGE-HEAVY.
( And away we go! )Other results I got with the same process:
(These are free to take - just credit my art comm,
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bold_as_brass.)
I hope this tutorial was easy to understand and easy to follow. And please, if you end up making any animated icons using my tut, post them in the comments so I can see! I'd love to see what results people get. :-)
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