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Designing & Animating Banner for a Realtor Site


Start by creating a new file in standard top banner size i.e. 468 x 60 (px). Fill the background with blue color.

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Open image of a man looking for something . Create a cutout and insert in the banner. Create two duplicates of this layer. Displace the three layers from each other as if the man is coming into banner from left side.

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Select one of the layers. From filter menu apply blur>>motion blur. Apply settings as shown.

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Select another duplicate layer. Apply same filter with following settings.

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Create a cloud 1 shape using custom shape tool.

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Create another such shape but a little bigger in a new layer.

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Create another such shape much bigger in a new layer. This shape will serve as a place holder for the text.

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Type first line of the text over this big cloud.

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Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

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Type second line of the text over this big cloud. Apply same layer style.

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Hide both text layers and in a new layer insert site logo.

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Create a thin black border over all layers

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Open animation window. For the first frame hide all layers except the more blurred man layer.

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Duplicate the frame. Hide the this blurred man layer. Unhide the lesser blurred layer.

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Keep duplicating the frames and follow along the images below to hide/unhide the layers.

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Set the duration of all the frames as shown in the image below.

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Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.

Designing & Animating Banner for a Realtor Site Tutorial: Final Result



Author's URL: Mr. Smarty
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