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

Every layer in the layers menu has its own “layer” in Timeline menu.

I will start with Background layer (Layer 1). So click on this Layer 1 in Timeline menu and click on the little triangle to expand more options ( i.e. Position, Opacity, Style). Click on the Position option from expanded options. Then move the video slider to your start point  and click on the white “diamond” – this will add start point of your video.

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After that move slider to end point – in my case to the end of timeline and again click on the white diamond -  this will add end point.

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After these steps click with right mouse button on the Layer 1 on Timeline and Motion menu will appear. Choose Pan and Zoom and set it:

Zoom option set to Zoom Out and change Pan direction to -60.

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Do exactly same steps with Layer 2 only settings will be different:

Zoom set to Zoom In and Pan direction to -143.

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And you are done. The last final step is just to produce your video so go to File – Export – Render Video.

  • 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!