Fade Picture in and out

1. Open up an image in imageready or photoshop CS3 (I used the picture from the orange gelly text effect).

2. Duplicate the image and lower the opacity to 40% like this and be sure that you have a colored background.

3. Now open up the animation window in photoshop CS3 (window - animation) or if you use imageready it should already be opened. The next step is to insert a 2nd animation frame where you hide the 100% opacity layer!

4. Select the first animation frame again and add a tween with the following settings!

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5. In the last step, select the last frame and add a tween again but with other settings of course!

6. After all this save it as a .gif file and enjoy your result (click on the image to see the animation)!