| Open a new image with a black background 315 x 236. Go to
Photo/Enhance/Moon. Use the settings in the screenshot below.
You should have a moon
with a halo effect as shown in the screenshot below.
Using the Path Tool,
create a black circle approximately 47 x 47 or just enough so that it covers the moon,
leaving the halo effect around it. See screenshot below.
Do not merge. Save
this image as a ufo as you will be animating this in Gif Animator 5.
Open Gif Animator 5 and
open the ufo image you just created. In the Object Manager Panel you'll see your
base white moon image as well as the black path moon image you created. Click on the
black moon path. Now click on the first frame. Position the black moon to the
lower left hand corner of the base image as shown below.
Duplicate Frame 1.
With the moon path still highlighted, click on Center Both.
Duplicate this frame.
Now position the black moon path to the upper right hand corner as shown below.
Return to Frame 1 and
click on Tween. Make sure the black moon path is selected in the Object Manager.
Use the settings below, inserting 60 frames as we want the movement to be very
slow. Use a frame delay of 10.
You now have a total of 63
frames. To complete the second part of the tweening, highlight Frame 62. Click
on Frame 62 and make sure the black moon path is selected in the Object Manager.
Change "Start from frame" to 62 and "End in frame" to 63. Keep
the other settings as you did in the first part of your tweening.
You now have a total of
123 frames. This seems like a lot but you want the animation to move slowly.
Optimize your image and you'll see that this animation is not as huge as you would think
for so many frames.
Here is another example
using a star background. The animation was also cropped.
I hope you've enjoyed this
tutorial.
March 19, 2006
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