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Animating a Buzzing Telephone

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Start by creating a new file. Create telephone shape using custom shape tool.

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Right click the layer in layer palette and select rasterize.

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Create selection of receiver using polygon lasso tool.

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Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in new layer. Enable lock transparency pixels form the layer palette. Change the color of the telephone and receiver.

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Duplicate both the layers. Select each layer and press Ctrl+T. Rotate the layer slightly.

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Duplicate both the layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select flip horizontal.

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Create some random lines using line tool. This will create an illusion of the buzzing phone.

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Duplicate the layer and adjust the lines according to the next position of phone.

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Open animation window. For the first frame keep the normal position of the telephone visible and hide rest of the layers.

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Duplicate frame. Unhide the buzzing position of the phone along with the random lines.

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Duplicate frame. Unhide the next buzzing position of the phone along with the next layer of the random lines.

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Select the three frames and duplicate them.

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Swap the last two frames with each other.

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Duplicate the frame containing normal non-buzzing phone. move this frame to the end of the sequence.

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

Animating a Buzzing Telephone