used as a Motion Graphics Tool,
[00:00:03.46] you will find that Photoshop offers a
Timeline that gives you some rudimentary
[00:00:07.70] animation abilities.
[00:00:09.34] This can be used for a simple logo
animation and I like to do the rubber banding
[00:00:14.13] approach, where we set Keyframes for
the landing positions, then stretch the
[00:00:18.28] pieces out and have them land
into their final landing spot.
[00:00:21.55] Here's how it works.
[00:00:22.85] I'm going to go ahead and make a new
Timeline and that up pops up, and what's
[00:00:29.59] needed here is I'm going
to want a video Timeline.
[00:00:32.91] So I'll Convert this to video
and that gives me each layer.
[00:00:38.44] Now, I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+- (
minus) to shrink that window down a bit and
[00:00:42.55] just make it easier to see all
my layers. Looks pretty good!
[00:00:49.32] If I need to, I could change the
Timeline Frame Rate to assign a true video
[00:00:54.20] Frame Rate, and if necessary I could
choose the Panel Options to make it a bit
[00:01:00.07] easier to see all my thumbnails.
[00:01:02.38] All right, that looks pretty good.
[00:01:05.23] I left a copy of the logo on the
bottom there just for reference.
[00:01:09.11] Let's merge the Box and Stroke together,
select both layers and press Ctrl+E or
[00:01:13.97] Command+E, to makes it a
bit simpler and I like that.
[00:01:19.03] And what we're going to do is make
each of these a Smart Object by right
[00:01:23.36] clicking and Converting to Smart Objects.
[00:01:27.05] What this does is it will embed a full
resolution copy inside the layer and it
[00:01:33.24] opens up the ability to use the
Transform command with Keyframes. There we go!
[00:01:38.92] Twirling each one down, we can start to animate.
[00:01:44.31] Let's take the word Raster first, I'll
come to the 3 second mark, twirl it down
[00:01:56.68] and you'll see the Keyframe for transform.
[00:01:59.98] I'll turn that on to enable the
Keyframe and then come up to the beginning here
[00:02:05.12] and press Ctrl+T. This allows me to
adjust as well as rotate and move.
[00:02:17.96] Pressing Return, you'll see
that the object lands in to place.
[00:02:24.73] Now that worked nicely for a simple
animation, let's keep going with another layer.
[00:02:30.10] We'll grab Vector here, turn on the
stopwatch and the visibility, and we'll jump
[00:02:38.83] back to the same starting point.
[00:02:41.34] Ctrl+T, there it is. If I want to
adjust where it rotates around, I could drag
[00:02:49.47] the rotation point there and what I'll
do is rotate this and pull it off screen.
[00:03:06.42] And they both land at the same time.
[00:03:08.12] That's looking pretty good!
[00:03:10.97] I'll just scale this first one up and pull
that off a bit, and they tumble in to place.
[00:03:25.22] Now, if you want to change the
stacking order, just adjust the heights in the
[00:03:29.42] layers panel and you'll see that
one will sit on top of the other now.
[00:03:33.53] All right, that's looking nice.
[00:03:38.03]
[00:03:38.28] Right about in the middle, I'm going to
bring on the other two boxes, so there's
[00:03:44.16] my Red Square and my Black Square and
I'll just use the Opacity Controls here
[00:03:50.02] and we will set those to 0, and then
go a little bit forward to about 310 and
[00:04:04.74] take them back up to 100.
[00:04:13.24] So, if we play that back, you'll notice
that they animate by fading into place
[00:04:20.04] as things go passed.
[00:04:22.88] Remember, if you'd like you can uncheck
Linear Interpolation and we will have a
[00:04:28.68] little bit more smoothing into place.
[00:04:30.60] All right, that's looking good,
let's just round that out.
[00:04:35.19] We've got our line and I want that to
build right as those come in, so we'll do
[00:04:44.57] Transformation, there we go, and
coming to the top here, we'll simply press
[00:04:54.98] Ctrl+T and we'll uncheck the
width up here and set that to 0.
[00:05:02.38] What that will do is scale it from the middle.
[00:05:07.55] Now what's important is you want to
check your Keyframes, making sure that as
[00:05:12.10] you select them, that looks pretty good,
there's the first one, make sure it's
[00:05:19.52] selected, Ctrl+T and I'm going to ungang
those and just adjust the width down to zero.
[00:05:27.12] Okay, click Commit, and
you'll see that the line builds on.
[00:05:37.14] Now, if it doesn't appear that it
goes all the way off the screen, you might
[00:05:41.46] need to make a few tweaks there.
[00:05:43.21] Well, let's go ahead and press Ctrl+T there
and just adjust the width until we truly hit 0%.
[00:05:50.68] I'll turn on Opacity there and just
set that to start at 0 and very quickly
[00:05:57.94] fade back up to 100%.
[00:05:59.01] All right, so there's the line and it
wipes on and we could finish that out by
[00:06:07.24] simply fading in the back box, there it
is, and as that wipes, we want the back
[00:06:16.06] box to come on, so we'll just twirl
that down and Keyframe the Opacity going up
[00:06:22.85] to 100%, but starting at 0.
[00:06:29.53] All right, let's play that from the
beginning, logo pieces build on, boxes fade
[00:06:41.61] in, and it's completed.
[00:06:44.23] So a very simple logo animation, if
I'd like to spit that out for use in my
[00:06:48.83] Video Editing Tool, I can do so.
[00:06:50.39] Let's go ahead and save that out by
choosing File>Export>Render Video and if
[00:06:55.88] you'd like Embedded Transparency, just
choose the Adobe Media Encoder, go to
[00:07:00.47] QuickTime and you can go
with the Animation Codec.
[00:07:04.82] That will allow you to choose to embed
an Alpha Channel if you'd like by just
[00:07:09.42] coming down here and I recommend
that you do a Straight Alpha Channel and