Week 7: Animation Within Photoshop

Today we have been introduced and learnt how to use animation within Photoshop which will help me when I come to create my DVD Menu, as I wanrt to use animation within my DVD Menu. I have learnt how to simply create a moving image within Photoshop these are the steps which I took and learnt to create the moving image:

• Create a Film and Video canvas within Photoshop which is in the correct format to create a page such as a DVD Menu.
• Open your chosen image into Photoshop and copy the image into the canvas.
• Now you are able to simply create a moving image by clicking on Window-Animation and this will create the animation, a timeline will appear at the bottom of the page with various tools which help you create the animation.
• You use the duplicate tool to duplicate the slide and this then creates the animation and you can then click onto the 'Tween Animation Frames Tool' and this will let you choose the amount of slides you wish to include within your animation.

I created an animation of a Butterfly flying across a Meadow, I am glad I have had the chance to use animation and I have been shown how to use it as I am going to include animation within my own DVD Menu.

This is a screenshot of my Animation of a Butterfly within
Photoshop