Animating Sigs

step one:

open up photoshop and create your sig

step two: create a new layer, and click the "Rectangle marque tool"
http://img162.exs.cx/img162/5886/layout18tt.jpg


now make a small vertical bar with the rectangle marquee tool.

http://img185.exs.cx/img185/1536/barsiggy1gy.jpg
it doesn't matter where you put it.
don't deselect it yet!

k, now go to your fill tool, and set the opacity to about 40.
The opacity can be changed in your layer pallet.


now use the following settings on the bar layer

drop shadow:
http://img161.exs.cx/img161/7892/dropshadow4ht.jpg

inner shadow:
http://img161.exs.cx/img161/6417/innershadow2oq.jpg

belevle and emboss:
http://img161.exs.cx/img161/8108/belevleandemboss5ac.jpg

Gradient overlay:
http://img161.exs.cx/img161/7632/gradientoverlay8ve.jpg

stroke:
http://img161.exs.cx/img161/2417/stroke0sa.jpg

ok!
Now move the bar layer to where you want the bar to start...

ok!
now what you do is ctrl-shift-M to bring you to image ready!

*horro music*
don't be scared of imageready! its easy!

ok, now duplicate your current frame in your anim pallet:
http://img192.exs.cx/img192/6820/animbar1am.jpg

now once that duplicated layer is there, move your bar to wherever you want the bar to end I suggest using the right and left arow keys ONLY!, that way it stays straight once animated.

ok, now tween it, *tween* new word. tweening basically takes two pictures that has one thing moving. then the computer fills in every single frigin pixle move to make it smooth.^^ so easy!
to tween click this.
http://img161.exs.cx/img161/8261/tween2qs.jpg

now once you click that a box will appear, don't worry it won't blow up your computer^^

use these settings for the smoothest, and medium speed, but you can change it if you like, experiment!

http://img198.exs.cx/img198/5852/tweeningit3nr.jpg

your done! if you want to go one step further, you can make the bar come back. go to your last frame on the animation pallete. and click the tween, when the box appears, only change the tween with thing. and change it to first frame. there ya go! fini! now save optimized, and your done! Heres my final jersion:

any problems, just come and pm me... k? have fun animating. The next tut will be made tommorow.

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sweet tut man

 

Thanks, I was wondering how to do an effect like this.

 

very nice effect. Good tuts man

 

question... i'm new to imagready...
what do we save it as??

 

huh u dont know how to save :blink:

 

As a gif .

You have 1 in your signature. :blink:

 

Nice tut, im not a huge fan of the effect myself, but you did a good job there.

 

thanks, It's my first try at making a tut

 

sorry... i didnt notice that it ssaid to save optimized.... oops
i was wondering aswell...
how, in your sig, did you get the bar to invert the colours?

 

simple tut, good tut for first try tho'

 

good tut

 

nice tut

 

hey yo i have a prob when i go to image ready tha bar disapears whutz up with that how can i prevent that from happening? :huh:

 

I did a tutorial about this. But GJ.