Photoshop User - USA (2019-10)

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Bartek Wojtas from Pexels.com

HALLOWEEN ANIMATED GIF

In this issue’s tutorial, because it’s October, we’re going to create a cool Halloween animated GIF

using a photo, some text, and some simple brushes. You can do this using a mouse but a Wacom

and stylus would make it easier. We’re going to do some very loose painting around some text, and

piece the strokes together to make an animation. If you’d like to preview the final animations before

you get started, click here.

where you want it in the animation. (For this example,

I’ve placed it at the right of the canvas.) Press Enter to

commit the transformation.

Step Three: Next we’ll add some text, which we’ll be trac-

ing around for our effect. Choose a suitable font. We’re

using Battery Park from Adobe Fonts. If you’d like to load

this font, go to Type>Add Fonts from Typekit, and when the

webpage opens, type “Battery Park” into the search field.

Once you find the font, click the Activate Font switch.

Back in Photoshop, use the Type tool (T) to type out

“HALLOWEEN” in an orange color. Resize the type until

it fits in most of the document but be sure to leave

enough room to add the paint outline effect. Tip: To quickly

Step One: Set up a new document (File>New). For this

tutorial, it doesn’t really matter what size it is but, if it’s

something you’re going to put on a website, then consider

the dimensions of where it will be placed on the page. For

now, we’ll set it up at 2400x600 px at 300 dpi—I like to

work large!

Step Two: Next, grab an image for the background.

I went to Pexels.com for an image of a carved Halloween

pumpkin. When choosing your image, think about place-

ment and where the key parts of the image will sit in

the document for the best effect. Once you’ve decided

on your image, just go to File>Place Embedded and then

use the bounding box to scale and place the subject

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