Designing & Animating
Banner for a Realtor Site |
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Start by creating a new file in standard top banner size
i.e. 468 x 60 (px). Fill the background with blue color. |
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| Open image of a man looking for something .
Create a cutout and insert in the banner. Create two duplicates of this
layer. Displace the three layers from each other as if the man is coming
into banner from left side. |
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| Select one of the layers. From filter menu apply
blur>>motion blur. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Select another duplicate layer. Apply same filter
with following settings. |
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| Create a cloud 1 shape using custom shape
tool. |
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| Create another such shape but a little bigger in
a new layer. |
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| Create another such shape much bigger in a new
layer. This shape will serve as a place holder for the text. |
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| Type first line of the text over this big
cloud. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style
window. Apply layer style with the settings shown. |
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| Type second line of the text over this big cloud.
Apply same layer style. |
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| Hide both text layers and in a new layer insert
site logo. |
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| Create a thin black border over all layers |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame hide
all layers except the more blurred man layer. |
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| Duplicate the frame. Hide the this blurred man
layer. Unhide the lesser blurred layer. |
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| Keep duplicating the frames and follow along the
images below to hide/unhide the layers. |
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| Set the duration of all the frames as shown in
the image below. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized
animated GIF. |
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