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Final countdown

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Create a new file. Fill the background with gray color.

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Create a vertical line using line tool.

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Create another horizontal line using line tool

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Using custom shape tool create a circle thin frame shape.

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Duplicate layer. Press Ctrl+T. Scale down.

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Using custom shape tool create a circle frame shape.

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Draw this circle shape big enough to exceed the file boundaries.

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Create a circle using elliptical shape tool. Apply stroke layer style.

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From layer menu select layer style>>create layers to separate the effect layer from the shape layer. Merge both layers.

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Select polygon lasso tool . Click on center, press Shift and drag towards one edge of the file. Keep clicking to create a triangular selection.

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Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut & paste the selection in a new layer.

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Similarly create more triangular selections to divide the circle in eight sectors.

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Select each sector layer and change the layer mode to vivid light.

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Using a bold font type numbers like 3,2,1 in separate layers.

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Open animation window. For the first frame keep 3 layer visible and hide other number layers.

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Duplicate layer. Hide on of the sector layers.

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Similarly create successive duplicate frames and keep hiding sector layers sequentially.

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In eight frames we are through with animating the circle. Now we'll animate the number countdown.

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Create more frames to repeat the circle animation and this time hide number 3 layer and unhide number 2 layer.

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Repeat the steps for layer number 1.

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3...2...1 and here we go:

Final Countdown