How to Make Your Own Animated Twilight Icons
Twilight is one the all time best sellers. Along with the book, the movie is equally popular in most parts of the world. If you are one of Twilight fans, you may want to make your very own animated twilight icons. The task may sound difficult but in reality it is very simple. You just need to have a computer with Adobe Photoshop installed on it along with a few Twilight images from the movie or from the internet. Here is how you can easily make animated Twilight icons yourself.
Instructions
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Gather all the images from Twilight that you want to convert into animated icons in a single folder on your computer’s hard drive. Start a new Photoshop session and upload all the desired images. Make sure that you upload the images in individual layers. You can accomplish this by simply opening the first image in Photoshop, then click ‘Add Layer’ and upload the next image to this layer. Continue in the manner until all the images have been uploaded.
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Click ‘Edit’ and then choose ‘Image Ready’ from the drop down menu. It will show on the Photoshop screen in the form of a small icon on the screen’s bottom left corner in the shape of an arrow. Alternatively, you can press ‘Shift’, ‘Ctrl’ and ‘M’ keys on your keyboard simultaneously to choose the ‘Image Ready’ option.
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A small animated window will pop up on the Photoshop screen. From this window, select the option labelled ‘Create a New Layer’. Modify the visibility setting of the new layer according to your choice. These setting determine the way your images change into each other. Create new layers for all the images that you initially uploaded.
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You can modify the speed of the animated icon by right clicking on each of the animated layers and choosing to change the speed. Additionally, you can increase or decrease the time each image takes to transition into another image according to your personal preference.
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Finally, save the animated icon on your computer’s hard drive. You can now upload the animated Twilight icon on your website or use it as the display picture on a social media website.
