Glass Surface Water Drop Animation
Glass Surface Water Drop Animation |
| Start by opening an image of a glass. |
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| Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Reduce the opacity to 20%. |
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| Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail to get the selection. From select menu apply modify>>contract. Contract the selection by 1 pixels. Create a new layer and apply a black to white gradient in linear mode. |
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| Change the layer mode to screen. |
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| Merge both the layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown. |
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| Change the layer mode to screen and reduce the opacity to 51%. |
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| Create several duplicates of the drop. Press Ctrl+T and distort. Place as shown in the image below. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame hide all the drop layers except the top drop layer. |
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| Duplicate frame and hide the first drop layer. Unhide the next drop layer. Similarly hide unhide the layers to create a falling drop effect. |
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| For the last frame hide all the drop layers. Adjust delay durations as shown in the image below. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF. |
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April 13th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
This animation is really, really great.
I just wanna thank you.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
You make it look so easy. Thanks.
February 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Hi, thank you, this animation is very superb.