Bring your photos to life – animate them! | Photoshop tutorial

Have you ever met with animation in Photoshop? Do you know that you can create really impressing animations or videos using only Photoshop? No? Then check my tutorial and learn how to do it. You can do this fantastic effect under 5 minutes.

For video tutorial go to Page 3

I will create my animations using Adobe Photoshop CC.

First at all you need to cut object from the picture which will be moving. Use some selection tool, I will use Quick selection tool.

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If you are done with selecting cut this object with shortcut Ctrl + j. Then hide layer with cut object and go back to original layer.

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Use i.e. Lasso tool and select area around the object. You do not need to be very precise, just select it roughly.

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After this step click with right mouse button on the selection and choose Fill option. Use Content-aware option to fill this area. Result:

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When you are not satisfied use Clone stamp tool to retouch it a bit more.

Now turn on your timeline. Go to Window in menu panel and click on Timeline. After that video timeline appears, then click on Create Video Timeline.

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  • Алексей

    Thank you for the tutorial!

  • Tani Adams

    A great article. Thanks for your generosity in this sharing with us all. For me it was always difficult to repeat this. I work with photo editing services – lavalu and fixthephoto if I need something like this. Unfortunately, my hands cant’s do it. But I have to observe all photo editing websites like this and study Photoshop in all the aspects ASAP. Thank you again for a great help!