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Creating animated GIFs

- In the next few minutes, we're going to see how easy it is to rotate this bee around the flower and then export it as an animated gif file. In the layers panel, I will select the bee and I need to make a duplicate of it. So I'll use the keyboard shortcut Command + J on mac or Control + J on windows. And then I need to transform it 15 degrees so that it's going to eventually fly all the way around here. But when I go to Command + T and I try to transform this, well it's just going to transform it around the center point. So I'm going to undo that. And if your reference point or that center point isn't showing, be sure to enable that in the options bar. There are also some guides in this document, so you'll want to choose view, and then show, and then guides. So I want to position this reference point right down at the middle of the document, which is 4,000 by 4,000 pixels. So I need to place that right at the…

Contents

    • Welcome to Photoshop Essential Training 1m 24s
    • Opening files in Photoshop 4m 41s
    • (Locked) Opening files from Adobe Bridge 6m 9s
    • (Locked) Opening files from Lightroom Classic 2m 56s
    • (Locked) Opening files from Lightroom 4m 35s
    • (Locked) Editing in Camera Raw or Lightroom vs. Photoshop 5m 5s
    • A tour of the Photoshop interface 4m 52s
    • (Locked) Working with multiple documents 3m 9s
    • (Locked) Panning and zooming documents 7m 30s
    • Arranging the panels you use most often 4m 40s
    • (Locked) Switching and saving workspaces 4m 47s
    • (Locked) Customizing the Toolbar 4m 57s
    • (Locked) Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity 3m 40s
    • Understanding file formats 7m 40s
    • (Locked) Mastering bit depth and color mode 9m 7s
    • (Locked) Choosing a color space 6m 55s
    • (Locked) Making sense of document size 7m 53s
    • (Locked) Using Image Size to change document dimensions 5m 47s
    • (Locked) Discover flexible editing using the History panel 4m 4s
    • (Locked) Saving and exporting documents 7m 50s
    • A tour of the Camera Raw interface 6m 27s
    • (Locked) Removing distortions and cropping photos 6m 34s
    • (Locked) Working with profiles and presets 7m 21s
    • (Locked) Enhancing contrast, color, and tone 9m 20s
    • (Locked) Removing distracting elements 9m 20s
    • (Locked) Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image 15m 53s
    • (Locked) Using masking to retouch portraits 5m 42s
    • (Locked) Black-and-white vintage color toning effects 7m 34s
    • (Locked) Saving and opening files in Photoshop 5m 46s
    • Using the Crop tool in Photoshop 6m 21s
    • (Locked) Straightening a crooked image 3m 22s
    • (Locked) Crop and change image size in one step 4m 43s
    • (Locked) Increasing canvas size 4m 22s
    • (Locked) Auto-fill with Content-Aware Crop 3m 4s
    • Exploring layer basics 7m 13s
    • (Locked) Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers 6m 16s
    • (Locked) Working with layer groups and the Frame tool 9m 6s
    • (Locked) Merging and flattening layers 3m 56s
    • (Locked) Quickly exporting layers and groups 3m 7s
    • Color basics 6m 19s
    • (Locked) Brush basics 9m 54s
    • (Locked) The Brushes and Brush Settings panels 9m 1s
    • (Locked) Creating and saving custom brushes 7m 2s
    • Layer mask essentials 13m 1s
    • (Locked) Using gradients in masks to blend images 4m 11s
    • Using the Marquee and Lasso tools 12m 35s
    • (Locked) Making soft-edged selections 6m 21s
    • (Locked) Using the Object Select tool 4m 10s
    • (Locked) Making selections based on color 6m 27s
    • (Locked) Transforming selections and removing halos 6m 42s
    • (Locked) Selecting and replacing skies 5m 6s
    • Removing distracting elements with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools 11m 59s
    • (Locked) The magic of Content-Aware Fill 12m 3s
    • (Locked) Transform without distorting using Content-Aware Scale and Move 5m
    • (Locked) Removing larger elements from an image 4m 10s
    • (Locked) Introducing adjustment layers 3m 32s
    • (Locked) Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves 9m 59s
    • (Locked) Changing colors using Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, and Color Balance 5m 30s
    • (Locked) Converting to black and white and color toning with Gradient Maps 4m 52s
    • (Locked) Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers 4m 15s
    • (Locked) Blend Mode basics 6m 14s
    • (Locked) Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light 4m 34s
    • (Locked) Applying Blend Modes to Adjustment Layers 3m 32s
    • (Locked) Applying Blend Modes to multiple layers and groups 2m 4s
    • (Locked) Creating and editing Smart Objects 6m
    • (Locked) Opening raw images as Smart Objects 6m 18s
    • (Locked) Replacing the contents of a Smart Object 4m 18s
    • (Locked) Linked vs. embedded Smart Object 6m
    • (Locked) Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform 5m 41s
    • (Locked) Correcting the perspective of an image 4m 41s
    • (Locked) Warping images 6m 23s
    • (Locked) Using Liquify to reshape an image 6m 55s
    • (Locked) Using Vanishing point to paste in perspective 5m 27s
    • (Locked) Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers as one 4m 2s
    • (Locked) Using Fill Layers to create a hand-painted look 7m 45s
    • (Locked) Using gradients to add color effects 6m 31s
    • (Locked) Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers 5m 34s
    • (Locked) Filter essentials 1m 54s
    • (Locked) Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters 5m 1s
    • (Locked) Sharpening images 8m 53s
    • (Locked) Creative blurring effects 11m 6s
    • (Locked) AI-assisted (neural) filters 6m 30s
    • (Locked) Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery 4m 50s
    • (Locked) Applying Camera Raw as a filter 4m 4s
    • (Locked) Using the Shape tools 10m 45s
    • (Locked) Modifying, duplicating, and using custom shapes 6m 40s
    • (Locked) Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes 7m 34s
    • (Locked) Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects 7m 11s
    • (Locked) The Curvature Pen tool 3m 58s
    • (Locked) Pen tool basics 6m 11s
    • (Locked) Drawing curves with the Pen tool 3m 4s
    • (Locked) Drawing complex paths 4m 53s
    • (Locked) Pen skills in practice 3m 30s
    • (Locked) Applying layer effects and styles 6m 47s
    • (Locked) Creative layer effects 4m 34s
    • (Locked) Exploring headline (point) type 6m 42s
    • (Locked) Using leading, kerning, and tracking 3m 46s
    • (Locked) Working with paragraph (area) type 5m 57s
    • (Locked) Library panel essentials 9m 30s
    • (Locked) Capturing patterns, colors, gradients, and shapes from an image 7m 18s
    • (Locked) Sharing libraries 3m 46s
    • (Locked) Working with Adobe Stock 3m 37s
    • (Locked) Creating artboards 4m 20s
    • (Locked) Adding content to artboards 4m 51s
    • (Locked) Five tips for working with artboards 2m 16s
    • (Locked) Saving and exporting artboards 4m 1s
    • (Locked) Creating animated GIFs 9m 7s
    • (Locked) Creating cinemagraphs 8m 42s
    • (Locked) Saving and sharing cloud documents 2m
    • (Locked) Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files 2m 59s
    • (Locked) Exporting multiple images to a single document 5m 5s
    • (Locked) Next steps 24s
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