Animating the Colour Slide

• Open your GA 5 and open your colour slide UFO file. At this stage because we closed off the eye to hide all the layers you will only have one frame layer in GA with the base background showing. (saves all that un-clicking :-))

Your Object Manager should look like this

• Ok because we have 8 name layers, so we need to add 7 frames to make a total of 8 frames in all. Click on the Duplicate Frames icon at the bottom and click it 7 times

• Highlight your fist frame and open the eye of the top name layer

• Goto your next frame and open the eye of the next layer down (2)

• Goto your next frame and open the eye of the next layer down (3)

• etc.....................until all 8 layers have a name layer in the frame.

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 Animating the Door

• OK, now the big test..............................run that baby, does it look good!! :-))))

• if not then click on each frame to see if you have opened the right eye for that layer. make your adjustments. You can also change your shadow at this stage if you don't like it.

• Preview, if you are happy with it run the Optimization Wizard and save!!

This one was made by having 16 layers. first 8 layers as the tutorial above and gradient 058 for the second colour and the 1st directional arrow on the left, which will make your gradient scroll downward.

The colour change on each layer makes it look like it is doing a breathing movement as well..............

KEWL!!

NOTE: Each gradient has their own Hue number so never change that unless you want different hue colours on each layer.................Hmmmmmmmmmmmm now there is another idea!!!!

Well I thought it and this is the result.

Had another thought and came up with this, but that is another story for another time.

So you see there is no telling what your imagination will come up with.

Hope I have opened your mind a little on the possibilities of this effect.

Thank you for trying my tutorial, which was conceived  by me wondering if it was possible to do it the same way as you do it in PSP in one image instead of saving every layer as a jpg and having 8 separate images instead of one.

Please feel free to  print this tutorial out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way  to put on-line, pass out, or re-write and claim as your own.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this, is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written on the 1st January 2007 and is therefore

© to Edna Munn

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