Making A Perfect Circle And Other Photoshop Tricks.

Did you ever wanted to make a perfect circle using photoshop? It does take quite a bit of time, so what to do?  Simple, cheat just type circles in your browser, choose images and download the circles that already have been created.

Once in photoshop you can erase the white or other color background by using photoshop's magic eraser tool, then use its marque tool to select ,then go to "edit" then  "copy" .go to a different background and then click "edit" and "paste" which then can be resized and/or  moved by using photoshop's move tool.

Now for animation: 

Notice the picture below it has one background and 26 layers. The eye icon means that the layers are visible. 

In the picture above we see all 26 layers ,to get to one layer  visible we can uncheck the layers one by one ,but that takes up too much time, but we can use "alt and left click" to choose one layer, let's say layer one and the other layers will become invisible and the eye icons will also disappear except of course for layer 1.

However the background will also become invisible, so we have to recheck the background ,then we can save the first  frame as a1. Once that is done we uncheck layer 1, and then check layer 2 and we can save the second frame as a2  and so on.

Frames saved as: 

       a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a7,a8,a9,     

b1,b2,b3,b4,b5,b6,b7,b8,b9,

c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6,c7,c8

What happen to "a10" or "b10" well, if you save a frame as "a10" it will go in front of "a1"  which will make the frames go out of sequence.Same with "b10"  it'll go in front of "b1".

Now all these frames will be saved in the photoshop (*PSD *PDD) picture format which unfortunately windows movie maker cannot use. However, we can convert those images into another picture format automatically using Photoshop Elements 2.0.

If you have Photoshop Elements 2.0 you can go to "file", "batch processing" as you see in the picture below all the images will be converted to the jpeg format in which windows movie maker can use and of course the "rename" box is left unchecked. A "source folder" and a "destination folder" must be chosen.

Then it is just a simple matter of adding all these "frames" in windows movie maker, set the time for each frame and then add music.See my finished animation below:

Note: If you open your frames folder and the icons are not in ascending order: Right click on a blank space inside of your folder, click on "sort by name"  if you want the images in descending order just click on "sort by name" again. 

In some operating systems there may be ascending and descending check boxes, so once you choose "sort by name"  check one of those boxes as well. (finis)