Create and Send an Animated Valentine’s Day E-card in Photoshop
Step 25:
Keep on adding frames and unhiding each letter in order:
Step 26:
New frame and unhide the pink background. Add another frame and unhide the next text. NOW: Change the opacity of this layer to 0%. We’re going to make it fade in.
Step 27:
Another new frame, change the opacity to 100%. Now from the same menu as new frame, choose ‘Tween’. A screen pops up with some options. Tween with lets us choose which frames we want to use in the effect. Frames to add is basically how long you want the effect to be:
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Add a new frame and hide the text:
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New frame and unhide the last text with the hearts:
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If we press play now we see that it’s way too fast. Go back to the first (black) frame. You’ll see ‘0 sec.’ under it. Click here and choose ‘1 sec’:
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Click the second frame, then SHIFT+Click frame 27, so we have them all selected. Change the delay to ‘0.5 sec’
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Change just frame 27 to ‘2 sec’, frame 36 to ‘2 sec’ frame 37 to ‘1 sec’ and the last frame to ‘2 sec’. When you’re happy with it, go File->Save Optimized and give it a name. You can now send it using Outlook so when you’re sweetheart opens her email, she’ll see the animation and not an attachment.
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