Shiny pictures are quite often found as avatars of users of Internet resources or greeting cards. Using Photoshop, you can create a similar animation and superimpose it on your own photo.
It is necessary
- - Photoshop program;
- - the photo.
Instructions
Step 1
Open the photo to which you will add animated sparkles in Photoshop using the Ctrl + O combination or the Open command found in the File menu.
Step 2
Select the areas of the photo where the sparkles will be located. This can be done using any of the selection tools, but the easiest way to select multiple areas in an image is to use the quick mask mode. Press the Q key to enable this mode.
Step 3
Paint over the fragments in the photo where the sparkles will be placed using the Brush Tool. Regardless of what color you have as the main, the brush in quick mask mode will paint over the image with red.
Step 4
Exit quick mask mode using the same Q key. Invert the created selection with the Inverse option from the Select menu.
Step 5
Choose a glitter brush. To do this, go to the Brushes palette and click on the Brush Tip Shape tab. In the window that opens, select one of the Star brushes by clicking on the image.
Step 6
Customize your brush. To do this, click on the Scattering tab and adjust the Scatter parameter value in this tab, depending on how wide the spread of sparkles you need. The more you adjust the value of this parameter, the greater the spread will be. Check the Both axes checkbox.
Step 7
Prepare one of the frames of the future animation. To do this, create a new layer using the Layer option from the New group of the Layer menu. On this layer, lightly paint over the selected areas with sparkles by dragging your mouse over them. If it turns out that the glitter is too small, undo the last action with the Ctrl + Z combination and increase the size of the brush in the Brush Tip Shape tab of the Brushes palette by changing the Diameter parameter.
Step 8
In order for the glitter to really shine, you need to make several layers of brush prints. Create two more layers, and on each of them lightly paint over the selected areas with randomly scattered asterisks.
Step 9
To create animation, open the Animation palette. This can be done with the Animation option from the Window menu. In the layers palette, turn off all layers except for the photo and the bottommost row of sparkles by clicking on the picture in the form of an eye to the left of the layer. When you open the animation palette, the first frame is automatically created containing images from all visible layers.
Step 10
Create another frame of animation. To do this, click on the folded leaf button at the bottom of the animation palette. Make the second glitter layer visible. You will be able to notice that after that the content of the second frame has changed.
Step 11
Add another frame in the same way. When creating it, turn on the top-most glitter layer in the layers palette and turn off the sparkles that are closest to the photo.
Step 12
Adjust the duration of the frames. To do this, select all frames in the animation palette by clicking on the first and last frames while holding down the Shift key. Click on the triangle at the bottom of any frame and select a value from the list.
Step 13
Check the result by turning on playback with the Play button, which is located under the animation palette. If necessary, reduce the duration of the frames or correct the color of the sparkles. To change the color, click on the layer you want to change the glitter color on. Use the Hue / Saturation option from the Adjustment group of the Image menu to open the filter window and adjust the desired hue.
Step 14
Save the shiny picture as a.gif"
