Creative Tank

Launch your Adobe Photoshop and make a new document

Choose "Custom Shape Tool" on the left tools bar. It is mostly hidden click and hold on the "Rectangle Tool" and you'll see it at the bottom of the list.

From the top panel choose the custom shapes

Then, draw a shape.

Open a picture and use "Move Tool" to pull it to the file which has the shape.

Go to the layer panel, between shape layer and picture layer line move your mouse then hold Alt key and click your mouse. While you are holding Alt key the mouse turns to be like as the symbol underwater cycle like in the following picture

Then you'll see the change as below:

Use "Move Tool" to adjust the picture layer's location.

The last effect of this class is as below. So now you know use clipping mask in a photograph is so easy, isn't it?

Open your image in Photoshop; we'll make a frame-by-frame animation, so you have to put the contents in different layers.

Open the Animation panel. (Window-Animation).

In Animation panel, press copy frames button to copy frames. Here we copy to five frames.

Select the frame in Animation panel, and hide the layer which you do not need to display in this frame. As an example, I set Layer six invisible to cover Layer six in frame four.

You can press play button to check the animation at any moment. If you are feeling the velocity of animation is too quickly or too low, you can decide on the frames and click the price of time to adjust their appear time.

Then we will be able to make a tween to make the animation more naturally. Decide on the opposite frames and click tween animation frames button to form a tween.

We can set the amount of tween frame in Tween dialog box. Click OK to make the tween frame.

The 2 tween frames have been made. Now we are able to use the same way to form other tweens.

After making the animation GIF, we must reserve it. Click File- Save for Web & Devices to save the animation GIF.

The basic frame-by-frame animation GIF has been made. You may use this way to make many fascinating picture to improve your page or send them to your chums when talking on the web.