0 Beating Heart Tutorial

This is a great little tutorial that will show you how to create your very own animated beating heart. Open Photoshop, create a New Document, size 300×300 px. Then, choose Shape tool with the Shape Layers parameter, then choose Heart Shape. Set out the Foreground Color #FD7FA3. Now draw a heart that should take up most of the space in the window. Choose Shape1 and Background together. Select Move tool and center the heart in the window.




Now go to Blending Options and set out the next Drop Shadow:

Inner Shadow:

Inner Glow:

Gradient Overlay:

Outer Glow:

Satin:

This is what you should get.

Now duplicate the layer three times with the heart. Using Free Transform tool, resize one heart to 95% of the original. The second heart to 90% of the original, and the third to 85% of the original, leave the fourth heart unchanged.

Now proceed to Image Ready (Ctrl+Shift+M).
Open the animation panel, then press the little triangle in the right upper corner of the panel. Press the Make Frame from Layers . Shift the layer with the background in the trash.

You should get 4 frames with 4 hearts having different sizes.
Choose the second frame and press Duplicate current frame. Then drag over the layer created at the end of the animation tape. Repeat the same procedure for the third heart.
You should get 6 frames. Now set delay time to 0.05 seconds for the first frame, and to 0.1 seconds for the fourth. Save your work and enjoy the result .

0 Glowing effect on text Tutorial

Glowing effect on text

Step 1: Open Photoshop click on File > New

Create size width 400xHeight 200, example image given below

Step 2: After new file opened choose color as you like to fill on the page, i choose here #f4950d (color code) the window will look like this

Add text on the page click text tool and type welcome, i chose bubble 1 font and 75 pt size of the font. See the example image

Step 3: Add effects on text click fx button and choose blending option

then click on color over lay and choose the color as you like, i chose the navy blue color and click on drop shadow. Then click on outer glow and set 0% spread, 5% size and add change the glow color as you like.

Step 4: Then press ctrl+J in windows and command + J in mac to create two duplicate layers. After that you will find 3 layers on the Photoshop page.I named the layers welcome1, welcome2 and welcome3. Double click on outer glow in welcome2 layer to increase the glow effect than welcome1. As its same do again in welcome3 layer to increase glow effect than welcome2.

Step 5: Click on the eye symbol to hide layers welcome2 & welcome3. Then click on window menu to create animation window > Animation, a small vertical window will open at bottom of the page. Then click new layer twice.

Step 6: This is the final step to finish this animation. Click on the 2nd layer in animation frame and unhidden the welcome2 layer by clicking the eye symbol. Do it same thing to 3rd layer with welcome3 layer. Then click on the play button to see the animation and the time as you like. I selected time is 0.2 seconds.

Then go to file menu and click save for web&devices to save this animation. The simple animation text is finish. The visitors can create like this simple animation and share or send to their friends, its good than sending simple text message.