Magician Performing Magic
Tricks Animation |
| Start by opening an image of a magician, holding
something in his hand. |
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| Create selection of the magician using your
favorite technique. We used polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste
the selection in a new layer. Hide the layer. |
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| Select the image layer. Clone the copied area
using clone stamp tool. |
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| Unhide the magician layer. |
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| Create selection of the rabbit using polygon
lasso tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new
layer. |
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| Cone the arm of the magician using clone stamp
tool. |
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| Create selection of the magician excluding the
left arm. Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. |
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| Create selection of the lower arm using polygon
lasso tool. Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. Now we
have five layers in all. Background, body, upper arm, lower arm and
rabbit. Let’s select body, upper arm and lower arm layers. Press Ctrl+g to
create a group of these layers. |
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| Duplicate group twice. Rotate arm layers and
place as shown. Use eraser tool to delete any unwanted areas. |
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| This is our 3rd group with a different position
of arm layers. |
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| Create selection of the hat as shown. Press
Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. |
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| Move this layer above all the layers in layer
order in layer palette. |
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| Now we have three poses of arms. Unhide both
poses which are out of hat. Unhide rabbit layer. Duplicate layer and place
both the rabbit layers according to the arms position. |
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| Similarly you can import some more images and
place them like rabbit layers. |
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| Create some stars with different colors, angle
and sizes using custom shape tool. Select all the stars layer and press
Ctrl+G to group. |
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| Duplicate the star group twice and change their
position randomly in each group. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame hide
the rabbit and other object layers. Let only first group of arms be
visible. |
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| Duplicate frame. Unhide the second group of arm
and hide the first one. |
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| Duplicate frame. Unhide the third group of arm
and hide the second one. |
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| Duplicate frame. Unhide the first star group.
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| Duplicate frame twice and for each frame let the
other star group be visible. |
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| Duplicate last frame. Hide the star group and
unhide the corresponding pose of arms as shown below. Unhide the watch
layer. |
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| Similarly keep duplicating frames. Again show
star frames and then rabbit coming out. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized
animated GIF. |
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