Animate your text in Image Ready using moving gradient

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, January 2006
Your 24hour wait is now rewarded with the ultimate horror film play out. Turn the virtual TV screen into an terrible image of the genres icon!

When you drop colour into the water, it makes astonishing movements. Now you can Photoshop one movement too! This tutorial always provides unique and different effects. You can even use it to make cool signatures but the file size will be quite big.

Let's create a animated movie avatar from a movie file.

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, December 2005
Is your virtual Christmas tree already shining brightly with glimmering lights? Learn how to light it up!

Follow these simple steps to create the following animated liquid screen saver effect.

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, November 2005
Having opened your site, the time has come to promote it in the Net. Two fairly common means of self-promotion are link exchange and floating banner ads. The most commonly seen look for a banner ad is the small, 88x31 .gif banner.....

Here's a few simple steps to create a gravity ball animation effect. Open ImageReady, start a new document. I started with a preset of 297 x 300. Next, select the 'Rectangle Tool (U)' from the Toolbar, with a foreground color of your choice...

Here's a few simple steps to simulate an animated panel effect. Below is base image I will apply the animated effect to. (Use any image of your choice, its the steps thereafter that matter.)...

To begin open your image in ImageReady, select/activate the layer. (highlighted in blue). Next, go 'Select/Load Selection/' and because the background is transparent, from the list choose '(LayerName) Transparency', as I have captured below...