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Animated Football Banner
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Sam Lee

The traveller who wants to see the world.

 
By Sam Lee
Published on February 12, 2008
 
Make a cool animated banner for a sports site.

Page 1
Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.



Insert an image of sport goods. Change the layer mode to "Luminosity".



Type the text details using a nice font.



Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.





Similarly type rest of the text details in separate layers.





Insert a cutout of football and place as shown.



Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.




 
Ctrl+Click the rectangle layer thumbnail to get the selection. Select football layer and click add layer mask button from the bottom of the layer palette.




Page 2
Open animation window. For the first frame hide all the text detail layers. Unlink the football mask from the layer content. Move the football layer towards left.



Duplicate frame. Move the football layer towards Right.



Click tween button from animation window. Apply settings as shown.





Select the last three frames and unhide the first text detail layer.



Similarly repeat the steps for the rest of the detail layers.





Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.