Colour animation, Filtered animation, motion animation and re-sizing animation. To begin with we will create a re-sizing animation.

Create a new file, 150 X 150 pixels on a transparent background.

Select the Elliptical Marquee tool.

In the options bar, go to the Style pull down at the top and select Fixed size.

Again, in the options bar, enter 150 px for Width and Height.

Click on your canvas to execute Marquee and drag until centered. Fill now with your choice of colour, then click outside the circle with the marquee tool in normal mode to deselect it.

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Frame based animation is what is used to create animated gifs. These are an image format that is used for really basic graphics that can have a transparent element. And also multiple frames, with each frame lasting along as you decide.

There is also Timeline based animation, but we will come on to that later.

Countdown Animation

We are going to be creating a basic animation of a countdown from 5 to 1. Each frame will last 1second long, and it will have a white background. The numbers will appear in the centre of a red circle as below.

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Below is a tutorial delivered on my Interactive Graphics shortcourse. I have decided to post some of the course content on here, to give people a taste of what is involved.

One of the best ways to advertise online is to make banner ads. I’m going to show you how to create animated banner ads using Adobe Photoshop CS3. I have made a banner ad to advertise the Photoshop Enhanced shortcourse that I run at the university that I work at. http://data.bolton.ac.uk/dan/banner this banner advert uses animation to get the message across. In this tutorial we will create a static advert and [...] Continue Reading…

The guys over at U2Star.com have created an online TV channel dedicated to U2, it has rotating content all day, and is in its infancy so are developing new content all the time.

Hopefully you can see it above. I imagine my wife will be very happy about this, as she can now watch Bono on demand!

Just wanted to raise this post I was reading this morning on Graphic Design Blog. It reminds us that when designing stuff, the initial stages when you are developing your ideas should be done the old fashioned way. Pen and paper. Its been along time since I actually did pick up a pen and paper, I tend to go straight into Illustrator if its a logo I’m designing.

Having read this article, on my next project I will pencil some ideas down first and see if it takes me down a different route.

http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk/logo-design-from-sketch-to-final-design/