| How to animate a banner using Adobe ImageReady? | This article covers step by step guide to animate a banner which has been created in Adobe Photoshop. Note: To make the tutorial practical & easy to understand we have created a banner in Photoshop & Animated in ImageReady Click here to download the Banner. After downloading the banner follow the steps given below : Standard Banner Sizes
There are different banner sizes. Some of the sizes are given below for your reference.
| Dimension (in Pixel) | Type | | 468 x 60 | Full Banner | | 392 x 72 | Vertical Navigation Bar Banner | | 234 x 60 | Full Banner | | 125 x 125 | Half Banner Square | | 120 x 90 | Button Banner | | 120 x 60 | Button Banner | | 88 x 31 | Micro Button Banner | | 120 x 240 | Vertical Banner |
| In this example we will learn to & animate 468x60 Pixel Banner. Download and open a banner in the Photoshop. (The banner is created using Photoshop & available for downloading with the Article) |
| Note: In this example we have created a banner with different objects and text in separate layers. Colour of the Layer Property has been changed for each frames, i.e., first frame in grey, second in light red and so on. |
| Make all the objects & texts of the first frame visible keeping the rest as invisible. |
Banner in Adobe ImageReady After opening the banner in Photoshop Jump to Adobe ImageReady. Choose File > Jump to > Adobe Image ready or click on Tools Palette Icon. If the Animation palette is not visible, choose Window > Show Animation. Select the first frame in the Animation Palette by clicking on it. Make all the layers visible which are to be shown in this first frame keeping the rest as invisible.
| Click on the Duplicate Current Frame button in the Animation palette to create next frame. |
Select the second frame in the animation palette. Make the layers visible which are to be shown in the second frame keeping the rest as invisible. Similarly, for creating the other frames click on the Duplicate current frame button in the animation palette. Just go through the animation frame by frame, making different layers visible and invisible on each frame. Imageready will keep check on what's visible / invisible on each frame. Note: In this example 13 different frames are created.
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