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Creating animated GIFs

Creating animated GIFs - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating animated GIFs

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- [Instructor] In the next few minutes, we're going to see how easy it is to rotate this bee around the flower and then export it as an animated GIF. We can see that this document has three different layers. We've got the background, as well as the flower and the bee. There are also some guides in this document, so I'll choose View, and then Show, and then Guides. Now, this document is 4,000 by 4,000 pixels, so the center point is 2,000 by 2,000 pixels, and we're just going to keep that in mind. In just a moment, we'll use that number. But in order to make a duplicate of the bee, I'll use Command + J. That will duplicate that layer. And then I need to transform this, so I'll use Command + T on Mac, Control + T on Windows. But we need to move the reference point, because otherwise, the bee is just going to rotate around itself. I'll use Command + Z to undo that. And then if the reference point isn't showing, be sure to…

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