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Animating flickering and shattering of a street light |
| Start by opening an image of a street light. |
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| Create selection of the light dome using polygon lasso tool. |
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| Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer. Hide the layer. Select the background layer. Clone the area using clone stamp tool. |
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| Unhide the light layer. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Duplicate the light layer. Remove the layer style. Create random selections. Cut paste them into new layers. Select all the broken glass layers. Press Ctrl+G to group. |
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| Duplicate the group thrice. Reposition parts of each group as if the light is exploding. |
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| Select and duplicate the background layer. Press Ctrl+L to open level settings. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame keep the light dome in it's original position. Keep the darkened background layer visible. |
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| Duplicate frame. Enable the layer style of light dome layer. Unhide the original background layer. |
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| Select both frame and duplicate thrice. |
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| Duplicate last frame. Unhide the first group of exploding light dome. |
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| Duplicate last frame. Hide first group and unhide the second group of exploding light dome. Duplicate frame again and hide last group of light dome too. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF. |
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