Conceptual Animation for Rising Sales

Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ March 8th, 2006

Conceptual Animation for Rising Sales

Start by applying a light color gradient to the background layer.

Create a vertical and horizontal axis using line tool.

Add some value dividers on these axis using line tool.

Create arrow shapes using custom shape tool and place at the end of the axis.

Add titles,values and legends etc.

Plot a graph with random values showing upward motion using pen tool.

Create a new layer. Select a thin brush. In path window click stroke path with brush button.

Enable layer mask.

Create a rectangular selection using rectangular marquee tool. Select the mask thumb for this layer in layer window. Fill it with black color.

Unlink the layer and mask.

Open animation window. For the first frame let the graph be hidden under mask.

Duplicate the frame in animation window.

For this frame click the mask thumb in layer. Move the mask to the right till the end of the graph.

Keep the second frame selected and press tweens animation button.

Apply settings as shown.

Adjust duration of the frames as shown in the image below.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an animated optimized GIF.

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Artistic Text On an Artistic Background

Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ March 6th, 2006

Artistic Text On an Artistic Background

Start by creating a leaf ornament shape using custom shape tool.

Select the shape area using rectangular marquee tool.

From edit menu select define pattern. i named this pattern "artistic".

Fill the background layer with a nice radial gradient.

Type the text in a new layer with a font, bold enough to let the patter show from within.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply pattern overlay. From pattern fly out select the pattern "artistic" u created in previous steps.

Apply other layer styles with settings shown.

The text will look like this after applying above layer styles.

Use same custom shape that was used to create pattern and draw to fill the background with just one block of the shape.

Change layer mode of this layer to overlay.

In a new layer draw a circle using elliptical shape tool.

Copy layer style from text and paste on this circle layer.

Rasterize the layer. Ctrl+Click to get the selection. Contract the selection by 5 pixels. Press Ctrl+Alt+D to feather the selection. I used 20 pixels setting. press delete to remove the inner area of the circle.