#Batman begins bat signal gif how to#
#Batman begins bat signal gif 720p#

You cannot do any movement of objects in layer (unless you flip the animation palette to the timeline mode, but those become harder to work across frames).

#Batman begins bat signal gif how to#

The keys to this approach are to recognize what you need as a background layer across all frames (and this typically takes some clone brushing to full in regions) and how to separate all of the other items you may want to have appear or disappear. But I hope you get the idea of wat I am doing here. It’s not the best, the freezing motion of the cape in that last frame bothers me. But look at the layers- only one layer is completely full the others only have small pieces- working in this matter can reduce the file size dramatically – this GIF only weights 125k. This cuts down the final file size quite a bit. I’ve cropped a big chunk of plain sky on the left, and resized the entire image to be 500px wide (the width of the publishing space on my blog). I change the last one to be 1 second, so that lovely signal lingers. For the next frames, I select them all, and set the menu of one to 0.1, which sets them all to that frame. I want it to sit on the first frame longer, so I set its rate to 2sec. The last thing is to set the frame rates. But its a bit bright, so the first frame it appears at 15% opacity, then 30%, then 60%. Now I don’t want this to appear until frame 4, which I can do with the visibility toggle in the layers palette. We are getting close! The next thing is to add an element, I import a PNG file with our signal content, and place it over te layer with te signal beam. I will modify this selection on each frame because Batman is movine, but the idea is to remove all of the sky from the 6 other animation layers, so the only sky we see is on that base layer we made by clone brushing out the bat signal.īy toggling the visibility on the frame with the signal, I can make it appear in the last 5 frames, as if it turns on in frame 3. I then invert te selection.Īnd I can delete all of the sky in upper frame.

I use the magnetic selector to make a selection of just the caped crusader and the platform he is standing on. Now to deal with the ugly hole left behind. It does leave an ugly hole, but I have a plan.īut I first dress up the signal, filling it in as a solid (bye bat signal!) I make sure this layer is above all the others. I do bit of magnetic lasso, feathered edge to select what I want to move to its own layer: I want to get this to its own layer (above all other layers) so I can control its appearance by turning it on and off as a visible layer. Now I want to go to another frame, and cut out the beam and signal. Getting rid of the beams in the signal was a bit trickier, I ended up paint brushing in and using the smudge tool to cover the beams. You option click on one area as the source, and paint over another area, starting with the bat signal Here is where the detailed effort with the clone brush pays off. By default it ends up visible across all other frames each freme usually has only one layer visible, but we can switch them on and off in individual frames.įor the background, I will want to wipe out the signal and its beams. I do this by making a copy of the first or lowest layer. To do this I need to make a background layer that will be consistent across all frames. Now I know I want to do some effects in layers and add some elements. Frames where little changes is wasted space in the final file. The whole point is to reduce it to a minimal amount. Also, the signal in the sky kind of warbles, but I have plans to change that. IN this clip there is only minor movement of the Bat Dude. I start stepping through the frames, trying to delete ones where there is not significant motion from the previous. But make sure the “fram animation” box is checked.īring up the Animation palette (under Window). You dont want too many because the point is to reduce it to a handful. I chose to save every 6 frames because the segment is so short, on a longer clip I might go every 10 or 12 frames. The settings here may take some fiddling. To bring the clip into Photoshop we use File -> Import -> Video Frames to Layers. This is because PhotoShop CS5.5 can only open. MOV from the small drop down menu at the bottom. I then saved the clip – but rather than keeping the. I went to Edit -> Trim to get just the segment. Ti get my trim, I opened in MPEG StreamClip and marked the in and out pounts of the section I needed.

#Batman begins bat signal gif 720p#

I used the pwnyoutube bookmarklet tool to download a 720p HD clip, always better when you get a higher quality source video.