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1. Pre-preparation: Several windows need to be prepared and displayed to make GIF in PS: layers, animations and actions.
A GIF that completes the action is decomposed as shown below, and each frame is responsible for displaying its own layer content.
2. Make some settings to simplify the operation process in the future.
Cancel the alignment in the triangle option on the right side of the animation panel? Create a new layer that is visible in all frames? Check it. The purpose of this option is that the newly created or copied layer will be displayed in multiple frames by default in other frames, which is suitable for unchanging patterns, such as background.
Create 2 operations? GIF modification? ,? GIF empty? ：
There is only one difference between two stored steps. The purpose of the former is to customize a new animation frame after completing a frame, and then copy the layer content corresponding to the previous frame and reduce the transparency of the layer where the copied content is located, so as to modify the changes of some pictures.
The purpose of the latter is only to reduce the transparency of the corresponding layer in the previous frame, and then create a new transparency layer to draw a brand-new picture.
3. Create a new file with the required size. By default, a frame is displayed in the animation (frame) window. Create a new layer? Answer? Draw the picture of the first frame.
4. After completing the first frame, click Action? GIF empty? Or shortcut key Ctrl
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F4, will automatically lower the layer? Answer? Transparency, in? Answer? The transparent layer is automatically established at the top, which needs manual naming to distinguish it, so as to facilitate possible search and modification in the future.
Name the layer here? d？ To indicate that there are 2 frames in the middle? b？ And then what? c？ As an intermediate frame, one? And then what? d？ It is a key frame.
5. A layer with reduced transparency? Answer? , which is helpful for the reference of the next frame and avoids the serious deformation of the action role.
6. What floor is the second frame? d？ It's done. Hide layers? Answer? , and then start to fill the middle frame between bright frames to complete a complete action.
7. floor? b？ And then what? c？ How to establish and? d？ Same, all through action? GIF modification? Or? GIF empty? Automatically created.
8. Finally adjust and export the animation. After the animation, in? Documents? Select from the menu? Store all formats for networks and devices? , you can preview the display effect of the final effect and export the GIF format.
9. After setting the parameters in the pop-up panel, click? Storage? Button to complete the production of GIF.
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