Adobe Creative Suite 2 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.

Select the last two frames (frames 11 and 12), in the Animation palette, and then choose Tween from the palette menu, or click the Tween button at the bottom of the palette.

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Note

The tween command can only be invoked if either a single frame, or multiple contiguous (i.e. immediately adjacent) frames are selected. If you select non-contiguous frames, the tween command will be disabled. If you select a single frame, there is the choice in the Tween dialog box whether to tween with the previous or next frame. With two contiguous frames selected, you can specify the number of frames to be added between the two. If more than two contiguous frames are selected, you cannot choose the number of frames to be tweened. Instead, tweening will alter the frames between the first and last selected frames. The last frame of an animation is considered contiguous to the first frame (assuming the animation is meant to loop), and if you tween them, new frames will added at the end of the animation.

2.

In the Tween dialog box, enter 4 as Frames to Add. Select All Layers, and make sure Opacity is selected under Parameters (the settings for Position and Effects are irrelevant in this specific exercise). Click OK.

ImageReady will add four frames to the animation after frame 11. The previous frame number 12 is now frame number 16.

3.

In the Layers palette, select the text layer of the Layer 8 layer set. In the Animation palette, select frame 12. Note that the type layer is now visible (it was invisible in frame 11), with an opacity of 20%. In frame 13, the opacity increases to 40%, and so on, until it reaches 100% in frame 16.

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4.

Preview the animation in your browser to see the effect in real time.

The image width and height were defined by the artwork in the Illustrator document. Since we used a clipping mask to contain the animation within the blue rectangle, the width and height are larger than necessary. The Crop tool lets you resize the image to the area of interest.

5.

Select the Crop tool from the toolbox. Drag over the image to select just the blue rectangle, and then choose Image > Crop.

6.

The animation is now complete. Save the changes made to your flower_frames.psd document by choosing File > Save.

7.

To export the animation in a format a Web browser can understand (e.g. an animated GIF file), choose File > Save Optimized As. In the Save Optimized As dialog box, select Images Only (*.gif) from the Save as type / Images Only from the Format pop-up menu. Leave Default Settings selected under Settings. Navigate to the Lesson06 folder, and click Save to save the file under the name flower_frames.gif.