[align=center][color=red]How to make animating/floating bubble effect on your siggy[/color][/align] Requirements: 1.)Photoshop Imageready 2.)Chosen picture 3.)Creativity 4.)Common Sense Step 1: Open your Imageready Step 2: Open/Create a file In this tutorial, I'm gonna use one of my premade siggies: [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen1.jpg[/img] Step 3: Making bubbles To make bubbles on your picture: a.) choose/set the foreground color to any color that fits best to your picture.(I'm gonna use blue.) [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen13.jpg[/img] [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen2.jpg[/img] b.) then click the ellipse tool, and make a circle/bubble, like this.. [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen13.jpg[/img] [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen4.jpg[/img] c.) go to the layers window, and change the opacity of your bubbles, (I'm setting it to 40) [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen6.jpg[/img] [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen5.jpg[/img] d.)now let's proceed to animation, yipee! Step 4: Animating bubbles To animate bubbles: a.) go to Window > and select Animation [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen7.jpg[/img] b.) in the Animation window, set the frame delay time to 0.1 seconds and then click the duplicating frame button. [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen14.jpg[/img] c.) click the move tool, and move the circle to the location you have desired. [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen10.jpg[/img] [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen11.jpg[/img] d.) click the tween tool, and set it to 5-7frames [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Screen14.jpg[/img] e.) repeat steps b to d again and again until the bubble goes back to it's original/starting place. f.) then click the play button in the animation window to check if it's working. ..and voila! a floating bubble effect [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee273/Pikastar19/Bubbles%20Tut/Leafy-Green.gif[/img] ..you can also experiment with two or more bubbles like this [img]http://i28.tinypic.com/zj6t8n.jpg[/img] [align=center][color=red] Have fun with your photoshop! Repu will be highly appreciated![/color][/align]

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