How to make the animated banner

How to make the animated banner

Bright and attractive visual advertizing on the Internet – pledge of the fact that your goods or your service will be noticed and appreciated. The qualitative and beautiful banner is necessary if you want to advance effectively the services and the websites in network – you will be able to place a banner on any resource, both for a fee, and is free, and is not difficult to make such banner at all if you have Adobe Photoshop. The animated banner looks much more interestingly static, and for animation of the ready image you can use the simple Ulead Gif Animator program. Instruction 1. Open Adobe Photoshop and determine the size of future banner – for example, you can make a banner of a standard format of 468х60 pixels. Pick up suitable images or logos which you include in a banner, colors and fonts. 2. Define that you will write on a banner and what its elements will be animated. Create the new document of the necessary size with transparent or white filling, and then place the images and illustrations selected by you on a surface of the new file, placing each graphic element on a new layer. Surround a banner with a thin frame. Thus create one of frames of future animation. 3. Now make layers of the first shot invisible, having clicked on each of layers on an icon with an eye and start creation of the second shot. Make the necessary number of photos, on each of which the location of graphic elements and also the text will change. For example, in the first shot you can include the first part of the advertizing text, and in the second – the second part. 4. Include the address of the website and contact information in the last shot. Distribute personnel on layers, and then, hiding unnecessary layers for each specific shot, save them in turn in the GIF format in the separate folder. For example, as the first shot save a banner background, as the second – a background with a logo, as the third – a logo with the signature and so on. At you five or more frames can turn out – from all these images in the GIF format you should collect simple animation. 5. For this purpose open the Ulead GIF Animator program and select the option "Master of Animation". Specify the size of your banner and in the following step load all personnel created by you into the program, having clicked "Add the Image". 6. Set the suitable speed of change of personnel and delay time of each of them, and then install an order of emergence of personnel in animation. If necessary duplicate some personnel, having created copies. 7. Click a preview to look how ready animation will look in network. If everything suits you, save a banner in the GIF format and publish it in network.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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