Bill Rosener: Oh, this is Dr. Bill. Welcome back in this video you learn how to create an animated image using adobe Photoshop. And in this particular one, we're gonna go ahead and create an animated stoplight.
Bill Rosener: Well, now that you know what we want to do, let's go ahead. And I get started. So the very 1st step I'm going to do is open up adobe Photoshop.
Bill Rosener: and I'm gonna come right up here to a file and new.
Bill Rosener: and let's go
Bill Rosener: 110
Bill Rosener: pixels, and width
Bill Rosener: maybe 300 pixels in height.
Bill Rosener: and then 72 for the resolve resolution so 110 by 372 on the resolution and then press create.
Bill Rosener: Okay, one of the 1st times. So let's go ahead. And I get and kind of see, this is shaded
Bill Rosener: kind of gray. We got a black board around the outside, so the very 1st step I'm doing so. Press on on the foreground color. Get a light shade to gray and
Bill Rosener: press. Okay, then to select it. I can hit, select all.
Bill Rosener: and then I'll fill it. Edit.
Bill Rosener: fill and foreground color and press. Okay. Now, to get the blackboard around the outside, you could. There's these approach Avo found is added a stroke. So what I'm gonna do is I go ahead and press on the create new layer icon.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go ahead and just pick a different color here. Just say, much more easier to see? Then I'm gonna turn right around and paste that
Bill Rosener: or fill that. I'm gonna go edit, fill
Bill Rosener: and foreground color and press. Ok.
Bill Rosener: And now what I'm going to do is come over here.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna right. Click. I'm gonna go to blending options
Bill Rosener: and I'm gonna choose, press stroke, then go ahead and press on stroke, and if I wanted 3 pixels, if I wanted a 5 pixels
Bill Rosener: except for there, I could come right over here. Let's assume I just want 3. So I'm gonna enter a 3 in here. The big thing here is I want it on the inside. If it's on the outside, it's not even going to be visible. So I want to make sure it's on the inside. So I press. Stroke
Bill Rosener: clicked on the checkbox. Press on stroke. Size 3 on the inside and press. Okay.
Bill Rosener: now, what I'm gonna do is I'll right click on this.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna rasterize the layer style.
Bill Rosener: Then I'm gonna use my magic wand up here
Bill Rosener: highlight the green and delete.
Bill Rosener: and it's kinda hard to see. But if I was to come over, press over here I can see that it gets bigger, or what you could do is right. Click over here
Bill Rosener: and pick a different color. Maybe a light grab.
Bill Rosener: and you can see here is with and without the border.
Bill Rosener: and I'll go back to the default.
Bill Rosener: Okay, next step we need to do is to start creating some circles. I'll see if I can create this a little faster. I'm not gonna
Bill Rosener: maybe make it quite as fancy as what you see there. So what I'm gonna do is now press and hold and come up here and choose the elliptical marquee tool. I'm gonna go fix size
Bill Rosener: 75 pixels by 75 pixels.
Bill Rosener: and I'm just gonna press right here. I'm not even gonna worry about these things being aligned.
Bill Rosener: And now what I'm gonna do is I press on the curtainal air icon.
Bill Rosener: And I'm going to fill the top one with a shade of red
Bill Rosener: and hit, okay? And then I'll fill that.
Bill Rosener: Okay. And there we go. And I'm gonna hit control d to deselect that.
Bill Rosener: And we're gonna create. I'll tell you what these 2 layers can be merged. We're gonna have quite a few layers here anyway, so you could do is highlight layer one and merge down, and that is going to be our gray background along with our border.
Bill Rosener: And now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna double click on here. And I'm gonna create a copy of this one. So I'm gonna call this one red on.
Bill Rosener: I just clicked right there and edit. And now I'm gonna create a copy of it.
Bill Rosener: Drag it to the cranial arrow, icon. And then I'm gonna click.
Bill Rosener: Call this one
Bill Rosener: red and off.
Bill Rosener: Okay, and we're gonna go ahead and go go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and
Bill Rosener: create the yellow and the green. Then I'll come back and start working with these. So I'm gonna press on the create new layer icon create a blank layer.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna use the elliptical marquee tool fixed I 75 by 75.
Bill Rosener: And again, I probably should be aligning this. But I'm just gonna go ahead and call that good.
Bill Rosener: And I'm gonna come right over here, press on the foreground color, get a shade of yellow
Bill Rosener: and okay.
Bill Rosener: and then I'm fill that either all backspace or come up here and choose edit, fill
Bill Rosener: foreground. And okay.
Bill Rosener: And now, just like I did earlier. Well, 1st of all, I'm gonna deselect that.
Bill Rosener: And I'm going to create a copy of this.
Bill Rosener: If I want, I'll say just maybe a tiny of the type, and if I double clicked on this one and I call this
Bill Rosener: y'all, I'll
Bill Rosener: and I can call this one on.
Bill Rosener: and I'll create a copy of this
Bill Rosener: dragging it to the create new layer icon
Bill Rosener: right there.
Bill Rosener: and I'm gonna come right up here
Bill Rosener: and I'll call this one off.
Bill Rosener: Okay, so we've got some work to do on these layers. Let's go ahead. And I get that last layer. There. I'm gonna press on the create new layer, icon, create a blank layer. I'll use the lip to come our key tool again. The fixed size all that. Just go ahead and
Bill Rosener: drag out an area.
Bill Rosener: I'll change the foreground color to shade of green
Bill Rosener: and fill it.
Bill Rosener: Edit and phone
Bill Rosener: and okay.
Bill Rosener: and I'll go ahead and double click on it, and I'll call this a green
Bill Rosener: on.
Bill Rosener: and I'll create a copy of this whoops.
Bill Rosener: dragging that down to the Currenier icon.
Bill Rosener: and I'll call this one off.
Bill Rosener: Okay, so we've got right now. I can just like that is, we've got
Bill Rosener: some red, some yellow and green circles there. And now let's go ahead and tell you what, if I wanted to, I could even minimize these or turn these eyes off. So they're not even on.
Bill Rosener: Okay. So
Bill Rosener: here is the red on, and maybe what on the red on what I could maybe do is right. Click on this. I could go to blending options.
Bill Rosener: I could add a bevelman and boss.
Bill Rosener: I could even add a lens flare. Come up here to a filter, render a lens flare
Bill Rosener: a little lens flare right in there. I've got 50 to 300 and okay. So that's my on. Then I'm gonna come over here
Bill Rosener: and I'm going to go to the off.
Bill Rosener: and maybe in this case I might even decrease your pace a little bit, so it's not quite as bright.
Bill Rosener: and then I could right click on this one, go to blended options.
Bill Rosener: and maybe here I could add an inner chat. I'll just kind of turn it off a little bit here.
Bill Rosener: So again, here was that one's gonna be my on.
Bill Rosener: and that's going to be the off
Bill Rosener: I could probably spend much more time working with this. I'm trying to get to the animation, but I need some layers here to work with here. So let's come back here to a yellow.
Bill Rosener: and I'm gonna right. Click
Bill Rosener: on this one blendant options.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna add a bevelman and boss.
Bill Rosener: and then I could even come up here and add a maybe a lens flare
Bill Rosener: filter, render lens flare.
Bill Rosener: just add a little light there.
Bill Rosener: Come here to the yellow, and what I really need to be doing is find a different shade of yellow. But I'm just simply came up here, and that decrease to paste a little bit. Maybe I'll make sure I turn off this one here. And then I went ahead and right clicked on it, blending options
Bill Rosener: and added an inter shadow. And maybe what you could do. If I should have mentioned this 1st one is hit, reset to default.
Bill Rosener: and then if you start.
Bill Rosener: if you'll kind of maybe you could possibly increase some of these other parameters, for example, the distance to turn things on.
Bill Rosener: So here was the yellow on. Here is the yellow
Bill Rosener: and off. Okay, coming up here to the green on.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna right. Click on it.
Bill Rosener: Blendon options.
Bill Rosener: but a beveling emboss
Bill Rosener: hit. Okay? And then we'll add a little lens flare to make like the light is turned on filter.
Bill Rosener: Render and lens flare.
Bill Rosener: Kind of press here in the green and okay.
Bill Rosener: and then again to for the off.
Bill Rosener: Maybe I'll decrease the opacity a little bit.
Bill Rosener: and I'll right click on it. Blendon options
Bill Rosener: and an inner shadow.
Bill Rosener: And okay.
Bill Rosener: okay, not the best. I probably should have spent much more time. Let's go ahead and have initially. We'll have them all in the off.
Bill Rosener: so Green is off.
Bill Rosener: Yellow is off. Red is off so we can see we've got 2 layers for green, 2 for yellow and 2 for red.
Bill Rosener: Okay, we're ready to start the animation. That's really what this was about. But I need to create something, the animation. So anyway, I'm gonna come right up here to a window, and I'm gonna come to a timeline window timeline.
Bill Rosener: And you can see over here we got a couple of options. We create a video timeline. But I'm gonna create a frame time make sure it's on frame. So this one is, gonna allow you to toggle between the 2, then go ahead and actually press
Bill Rosener: on the timeline there.
Bill Rosener: And so this is going to be my off state.
Bill Rosener: I'm now going to press on
Bill Rosener: the little Add Button here. It's just going to add a frame, and in this case let's toggle these off. So I am going to turn the red on
Bill Rosener: and this one off. So I this one, this eye is now on, and this one is off. So that's gonna give me my red.
Bill Rosener: I'm now going to press right over here on the Plus, which is going to duplicate the selected frame. Now, I'm kind of like on Frame 3.
Bill Rosener: Now I'm gonna go ahead and reverse that. I'm gonna leave the red off
Bill Rosener: and the yellow is going to be on.
Bill Rosener: Okay. So green is off.
Bill Rosener: Yellow is on and red is off.
Bill Rosener: Okay, and repeat this one more time.
Bill Rosener: Now we're on the last layer. These are going to both.
Bill Rosener: The red is going to be off. The L. Is all going to be off, and then the green is going to be on.
Bill Rosener: You can.
Bill Rosener: So we've got our 4 frames now rather than this speed things up. Let's come up here maybe a half second on each one of these.
Bill Rosener: so you can see I can add kind of a delay here.
Bill Rosener: so all of them are going to have half second delay.
Bill Rosener: So I'll highlight frame one. I'm just gonna press on the play icon.
Bill Rosener: And I can see it's just kind of marching through the red, yellow, and green.
Bill Rosener: Okay, finally, to save it.
Bill Rosener: Since I've gone through all of this work over here, I wanna make sure I I keep save this one in the Psd file. So if I want to come back, I don't have to recreate this thing from scratch. So the very 1st step I would do is come right up here to file. I would go to save as.
Bill Rosener: and you could call this one
Bill Rosener: animated stoplight, or you could call it assignment 27. Maybe I just call this one assignment 27.
Bill Rosener: Okay, Dot, Psd, and the Psd is going to save all this information over here. All these layers. Everything is, if I close and open it up, it's going to maintain all this information. So if I decide, I want to ever so slightly move the yellow or change the yellow. I don't have to recreate this from scratch. Okay, to save it, I'm going to show you 2 approaches. Hopefully, both approaches would work file. You could go to save a copy file, save a copy.
Bill Rosener: And now I want to make sure I get Gif.
Bill Rosener: and I'm going to call this one assignment, 27 dot gift. And this should work.
Bill Rosener: And I'm just gonna hit. Okay.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna come along over here.
Bill Rosener: And here it is. My assignment 27.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to right click on it.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go open with. And I'll just choose Firefox.
Bill Rosener: Okay, and that's working perfectly. If for some reason
Bill Rosener: that saved and not work. Then come up here to a file, export and go, save for web legacy. And one of these approaches should work. But I think just making sure you save it in gif gif format. It should work
Bill Rosener: well, hopefully. In this video, you learned how to create an animated stoplight. So we began by creating the stoplight, and I didn't do the best job with these lights and everything but the bottom, the bottom bottom line there is. We wanted to get red on 2 layers. One more was off, one more was on same thing with yelling green so they could toggle it, and then I came up here to the window, and I went to a timeline to begin the animation. Well, hopefully, in this video you learned how to create an animated image for a website. And I'll catch you next. Video, thanks that back.