Cute & Cuddly Gift Animation

Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ May 20th, 2006

Cute & Cuddly Gift Animation

Start by opening an image of a teddy bear in a box. Create cutout to knockout the background color.

Select the cap of the box using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.

Hide the layer. Using clone stamp tool clone the area of the box that was covered with the cap.

Unhide the cap layer.

Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

Create selection of the teddy using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette.

Unhide the cap layer. Create a few duplicates of this layer.

Start moving and rotating the duplicate cap layers sequentially

Open animation window. For the first frame keep the cap layer right above the box.

Duplicate frame. Move the cap layer a few pixels in random directions. this is to create a shake before the surprise comes out of the box.

Duplicate frame till five frames and repeat the above step by moving cap and box layers a few pixels in random directions.

Duplicate frame. Hide the cap layer. Unhide the next cap layer. Unhide the teddy layer.

Keep duplicating frames and unhiding the box cap layers moving away from the box. Simultaneously let the teddy come out of the box by moving it a few pixels upwards with every duplicate frame.

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

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XP Style Bottle Icon

Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ May 16th, 2006

XP Style Bottle Icon

Start by creating a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Enable add to shape area form the top bar.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail to get the selection. From select menu apply modify>>contract. Contract the selection by 2 pixels.

Create a new layer and apply a black to white gradient in linear mode.

Change the layer mode to screen.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

Enable add to shape area form the top bar. Create a rectangle for neck of the bottle using rectangular shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

With the add to shape area still enabled create more basic shapes to create a bottle shape. We’ll call this bottle neck layer.

Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail to get the selection.From select menu apply modify>>contract. Contract the selection by 3 pixels. Create a nw layer and fill it with any color.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Select the bottle neck layer. Duplicate it. Move this layer above all the layers in layer order in layer palette. Enable subtract form shape area form the top bar. Using pen tool create a shape as shown.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Create a selection using lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Alt+D to feather the selection. Create a new layer and fill it with white color. Change the layer mode to screen.