FUR = "Follow | Upvote | Resteem" Graphic-making Tutorial!

[reiban]

I will show you the steps on how you can make a moving graphic that says "Follow | Upvote | Resteem". I call that the "FUR" (go figure, hehe).

Here are the steps:

• Open Photoshop and create a plain white elongated rectangle like this:

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• Then use the text tool to start adding the words in it, we will do "Follow" first:

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• Then we add "Upvote" using the same process:

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• Then we add "Resteem":

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• After adding the texts, let's add a divider too:

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Animating Your Graphic!

• Start by using the "Motion" set of tools in Photoshop:

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• The Timeline panel will show up at the bottom, I like using the frame per frame option, so just click that:

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• You'll have your first frame, like this:

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• Just adjust it by changing the timeframe to No Delay and hiding all the layers:

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• Now, copy the frame using the duplicate tool:

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• Then make the "Follow" layer visible:

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• After that you need to 'Tween' the layers (it's like adding transitions to it):

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• I chose "9" layers for this one:

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• It will give you something like this:

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• It looks like this when animated:

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• After that, duplicate the layer again and make the "Upvote" layer visible:

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• Tween it with 9 layers and it looks like this when animated:

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• Do the exact same thing for "Resteem" (Duplicate, make visible, tween with 9 layers) and it will look like this:

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• Again, do the exact same thing with the dividers (except for tweening I only chose 5 layers):

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• Lastly, duplicate the frame again but this time hide all of the layers (Follow, Upvote, Resteem, & the dividers):

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• Same thing, add tweening with 5 layers and you're almost done. Just save it by choosing File > Save for Web:

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• If the file is too large play with the settings you see here, the important thing is make sure the width and height is sufficient and that it's looped to Forever:

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• Name it and Save it:

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• There you have it! Just add it to your blog posts:

Thanks!

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