Avatars

Creating nice animated border around your avatar in Photoshop CS4

Might do more detailed if ya’ll neebs can’t figure it out.

Created for FPSB, by FallDown

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***This video contains a tutorial included in the closed captioning track***

I made this as a self imposed task geared towards helping out all people of the world in need of animated *.gif avatars.
Not just any avatar however, these are the type with those motion blur effects that all the trend in the online world.
This was originally requested by a buddy from deviantArt, but I’ve also seen many people out there who need help attaining the so-called, coveted “blur effect”. So if you know any of them, point them to this video. This tutorial can be summarized into seven steps:

1.) Choose/create your picture
2.) Separate elements from picture from the background on a different layer
3.) Clone layers as necessary prior to blur.
4.) Create a stamp(s) if you plan to make a frame(s) with everything blurred
5.) Blur layers and elements as necessary. (I recommend using motion blurs or other directional blurs such as the radial blur for a “moving” effect)
6.) Create frames and apply times for each to be displayed
7.) Save as a *.gif using the “Save for Web and Devices” option in the file menu.

*Note*
Animated avatars are not compatible with Youtube
Common sizes are 50×50 & 80×80 with limits on total image size

The 4 frame structure I followed for the making of this image was:
1st Frame:Everything Clear
2nd Frame: Motion Blur Vertical
3rd Frame: Motion Blur Horizontal
4th Frame: Blur All

Questions concerning this video? Don’t know how something was done? Ask me! Post your question on the comments section of this vid and I’ll try to answer your question or solve your problem to the best of my ability.
On a different note, I’m glad to say that my video quality keeps improving

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Want to see more of my work? Visit my DeviantArt profile at:
http://megadud20.deviantart.com/
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This video is intended for educational purposes.
Hope this helped and that you liked this video either way!

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How to Make Animation for Youtube in Photoshop. I show you how to use Photoshop to make an animation that you can put on your youtube icon/avatar.

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