You can also create simple animations in Photoshop by using the associated program Image Ready.

1. Start Photoshop and make a new document of 100×100 px.

2. Now we make the picture so that our animation to begin with. It may be a text, a picture or just one color.

3. Once you’ve made the first image, click Create a new layer the bottom of the Layers palette and then make your final image so you have two images on top of each other. You may click the eye next to your first layer so that it becomes invisible.

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4. Now we are finished in Photoshop and should be in Image Ready. Click Edit in Image Ready (Shift + Ctrl + M) at the bottom of the tools.

5. In Image Ready, we need Animations panel. If this is not open click Window ->; Animation.

6. As you can see in the animation panel is an image. Then click the eye of the Layers palette so that only the layer you want to start your animation to be visible.

7. Then click the Duplicate current frame Animations bottom of the panel, and click again on the eyes in the Layers palette so that only the layer you want to connect with your animation is visible.

Now you have as your starting image and your final image in Animations panel.

8. Now click on the final image in Animations panel and click the Tween bottom of the panel.

9. Put the settings to Previuos Frame and 5 Frames to Add, and click ok.

10. Put the first image to run in 2 seconds, click just below the picture. Put the middle 0.1 seconds and the last 2 sec.

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11. Then select File ->; Save Optimized AS.

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Then we finished.

NB.You can always make several frames in your tween to make the transition smoother.