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Creating and animating halloween pumpkin |
Create a circle using elliptical shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes as shown. |
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Enable "subtract from shape area" at the top bar. Create a shape as shown using pen tool. |
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| Similarly create nose and eyes. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown. |
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| From layer menu select layer style>>create layers. Select the drop shadow layer and erase the upper portion. Select and merge both the layers. |
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| Using brush tool create stripes and other details on pumpkin. |
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Select the pumpkin layer. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Create a circle for the eyeball using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Fill it with red color. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette. |
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| Duplicate the layer and change the fill color to brown. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame hide the colored rectangle layers. Disable the layer styles on the eye layers. |
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| Duplicate frame. Unhide the brown rectangle layer and enable the eye layer style. |
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| Duplicate the frame. Hide the first rectangle layer and unhide the red rectangle layer. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF. |
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