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Animating falling leaves effect |
Start by opening an image of trees. |
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Create selection of a leaf using polygon lasso tool. |
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| Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. Create a duplicate of the leaf layer and move it a few pixels downwards. |
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| Create more duplicate layers, rotate and place below each other in a random fashion. Select all leaf layers and press Ctrl+G to put the layers in a group. |
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| Similarly create selection of other leaves and create duplicate layer falling on the ground. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame hide all leaves layer. |
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| Duplicate frame. Start unhiding the leaf layers randomly. |
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| Reaching towards the final frame have more leaves near the ground. |
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| For the final frame hide all leaf layers. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF. |
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