Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - admin @ May 5th, 2006
Golf Shot Animation |
| Start by opening an image of a golf player. |
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| Create selection of the golf ball using elliptical marquee tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. |
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| Using clone stamp tool clone the golf ball area in the main image layer. |
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| Hide the ball layer. |
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| Create golf stick selection using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. |
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| Similarly stamp the golf stick area. Hide the golf stick layer. |
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| Create lady selection using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. |
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| Stamp the edges of the lady using clone stamp tool. |
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| Create a rectangular selection of the below the hole area using rectangular marquee tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. Move this layer above all the layers in layer order in layer palette. |
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| Unhide the golf stick layer. |
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| Duplicate the layer and press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Create more duplicate layers and distort each layer to get stick position as shown in the image. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame hide all stick layer except the one that is the begining position of the shot. |
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| Duplicate frame. Hide the stick layer and unhide the next position of stick layer. Move the player layer 2 pixels downwards. |
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| Repeat the above step for additional duplicate frames. |
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| For the 5th frame move the golf ball towards the hole. |
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| Duplicate frame. move the ball more towards the hole for additional frames. |
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| For the 9th frame let the ball be completely hidden behind the grass strip layer that is above all layers. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF. |
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