If you are interested in how animated pictures are created, which are available in abundance on various Internet portals, know that the simplest gif-animation can be created even with the help of Adobe Photoshop.
It is necessary
Adobe Photoshop
Instructions
Step 1
Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new document in it: press the hot keys Ctrl + N, in a new window in the fields "Width" and "Height" set 500 pixels each and click "New".
Step 2
Animation in Adobe Photoshop is created by manipulating layers that are in one single document. Therefore, further you need to provide this document, i.e. the one that you created in the first step of the instruction, with everything you need. Load two pictures into Photoshop: someone else's photo (it will appear in a frame) and a nice picture for the background, for example, a few close-up flowers, like in the title picture. To load an image into Photoshop press Ctrl + O, select the file and click "Open".
Step 3
Compare the sizes of the uploaded images and the document created in the first step of the instruction (its size, as you know, is 500 by 500). To find out the dimensions of a picture, select it and press Alt + Ctrl + I. The values in the "Width" and "Height" fields, which in turn are in the "Dimension" area of the open window, are the dimensions of the picture. If the photo is too large for the frame, reduce it, taking into account that it should be adequately displayed in the future frame. The same is with the picture for the background, changing its size, try so that, on the one hand, it is not too blurry, and on the other hand, it would fit in sizes 500 by 500. To do this, enter the necessary parameters in the "Width" fields and Height and click OK.
Step 4
Using the "Move" tool, drag the pictures onto the document that you created in the first step of the instruction. Thus, you have created new layers on this document. Make the layer with the photo invisible: find it in the list of layers (it is in the "Layers" window, and if this window is not there, press F7), select and set the "Opacity" item to 0%.
Step 5
Select the background image layer and "Move" align it properly. Create a new layer: press Ctrl + Shift + N and in the new window immediately click OK. Make sure that you have the newly created layer selected and activate the Oval Marquee tool, and in its settings, click on the Subtract from selection item. Create two ovals, which according to your idea will be the outer and inner sides of the frame. Select the Brush tool and paint over the area between the ovals with red.
Step 6
Press Ctrl + D to deselect. Select "Magic Wand" and click anywhere in the center of the frame. The area inside the frame will be highlighted. Click on this area with the right mouse button, select "Invert Selection" and press Ctrl + J. Another layer will appear - a duplicate of the background image with a hole for the frame. In the list of layers, place the photo with the person between this duplicate and the background image itself. If you are a little confused, then recall the order of the layers from top to bottom: frame, background with a hole, photo, background, background (so far you have not performed any manipulations with it). Make the border layer invisible: select it and set the "Opacity" to 0%. The preparations are over, now start, in fact, to create a gif-animation.
Step 7
Click Window> Animation. In the window that appears, there is currently only one frame. Click on the bottom of the frame and in the list that opens, select "0, 1 sec" - this is the time of appearance of this (and subsequent) frame on the screen. Click on "Create a copy of the selected frames" (another frame will appear). In the list of layers, select the layer with the frame and set its "Opacity" to 100%.
Step 8
Click on "Create intermediate frames" in the animation window. In the new window, in the "Add frames" field, enter "5" and click OK. An additional 5 frames will appear showing the animation of the frame appearance. Select the last frame and then set the Opacity of the photo layer to 100% too. Click on "Create intermediate frames" again and add 5 frames. Now you have the animation for the photo to appear. Click on Play to view the entire animation.
Step 9
To save the result, press Alt + Ctrl + Shift + S, in a new window, set "Permanent" in the "View options" field and click "Save". In the new window, specify the path for the file, its name and also click "Save".
