How To Animate Layers In Photoshop

hi! this is ever. i make stick figure illustrationand animation for minuteearth and i have realized the most people don't have a clue of how digitaldrawing is made. so, when presented with things like this [mushroom clouds wallpaper] or this[lionfish wallpaper], they will believe it’s done with magic. but that’s not true. notentirely, at least. these drawings and all the digital illustrationsfor minuteearth are made in adobe photoshop,

How To Animate Layers In Photoshop, which is a software, in principle, similarto microsoft paint. if you are familiar with paint, you know that you can draw freestyle,change the pencil's thickness and color, fill closed regions, erase, zoom in, zoom out,and if your hand shakes too much, add perfect shapes!with enough time and patience, you can make

pixel art!, which is the digital version ofcross stitching (which is also very fun!) and while you could certainly paint pixelby pixel to make your drawings, it could take way too much time. also, pixel art will havethis, well, "pixelated" feeling and even if they don't have this feeling at first sight,if you zoom enough you're going clearly to see those pixels. images made up of pixelsare known as raster graphics. in contrast, we have vector graphics whichwon't get pixelated no matter how much you zoom in. you can make vector graphics in adobeillustrator, corel draw, inkscape and even in powerpoint. i mean, powerpoint allows youto make basic vector illustrations, given that you get rid of those horrible defaultcolors.

with vector graphics you can scale withoutlosing quality, change the shapes you already drew, rotate them, add gradients, make polygons,edit them and even make fancy curves. of course, powerpoint is not the best tool if you'reinto vector graphics, but you get the point. vector drawings, in general, have a clean,flat, minimalistic look. and while you could certainly make paintings with vectors, itis not going to be an efficient process, because vectors are not meant for complex gradients,textures or realism and because digital painting requires a graphics tablet. you can stillpaint with a mouse, but using a graphics tablet is faster and more comfortable.digital artists use a wide variety of software for painting, like corel painter or krita,however the most popular is adobe photoshop..

for starters, photoshop, can use pen pressureto adjust brush size, opacity, scattering, color and even shape! i mean, how cool isthis? this is still raster graphics, but you won’t get those jaggies [anti-aliasing].you can add gradients, vectors, text, edit photos, fix photos, fake photos and way morethings than you list in a video. one of the coolest things in photoshop isthat you can draw in different layers, which means you can make a sketch in one layer,and use it as a guide to draw the lineart in another layer, then hide the sketch, andadd color in another layer. this is a pretty cute drawing already, but let’s make itcooler! add shadows by making a new layer and turningit into a clipping mask which will allow you

to draw only on top of the color. change thelayer’s blending mode to multiply and turn opacity down. erase this stuff. pick blackand make shadows. create a new layer for the background, pickthe gradient tool and personalize it by adding a bunch of beautiful blues. select circulargradient and you get a nice background finally make a new layer and then using alight blue make the rain. change its blending mode to overlay. fix and add some extra stuffand there you go! a cool, simple and great thumbnail for a minuteearth video!see you next time! ;)