After creating my latest weird cat signature, Deb25 asked me if I could assemble a little tutorial to show the rest of you "How To" make your fur babies wink. So! Here I am—This is the first time I have ever created a tutorial, so I hope this will make sense. If it doesn't—well, heck! I gave it my best shot.
All you need is a photo editing program and an animation program. I use Photoshop7 and ImageReady7, but you can accomplish the same task using software other than what I use. I'll try to cover the basics and that should give us a foundation—at least you can see how it's done.
A picture of a cute furbaby will be needed. Open this picture in your photo editing program. This will be your first layer. Start off by making a copy of your original picture. We will need both later.
Select the Lasso tool or the Pen Tool and TRACE around the cat's eyes.
When both eyes are TRACED, create a new layer and fill it with a color. I used white. We need to be able to see our tracing for the next step.
Using the magic wand tool, click on the left white traced eye. You'll see a dotted marquee around the area we selected.
At this point using the selection tool drag the selected dotted marquee to an area on the cats face that has fur. COPY and PASTE this area. Now you have a shape of the eye, that has the cat's coloring—REPEAT steps to do the right eye.
When you are done with each eye...your poor cat will look like this. POSSESSED. Line up the new eyelids directly over the top of the cats eye as accurately as you can. Just eyeball it...LOL!
MERGE your newly created eyelids with the original copy of the cat picture. MERGING means we have created a flattened image of your cat picture—one object.
Remember the COPY we MADE earlier of your furbaby? OK...We need it now. You should have a One Normal Picture of your cat and One picture with the eyes shut. We are only using two layers now.
Eyes Closed:
Eyes Opened:
Final Step: Launch your animation program and tell it to make frames from your layers. Click Play - Hooray! Your cat should be blinking.
All you need is a photo editing program and an animation program. I use Photoshop7 and ImageReady7, but you can accomplish the same task using software other than what I use. I'll try to cover the basics and that should give us a foundation—at least you can see how it's done.
A picture of a cute furbaby will be needed. Open this picture in your photo editing program. This will be your first layer. Start off by making a copy of your original picture. We will need both later.
Select the Lasso tool or the Pen Tool and TRACE around the cat's eyes.
When both eyes are TRACED, create a new layer and fill it with a color. I used white. We need to be able to see our tracing for the next step.
Using the magic wand tool, click on the left white traced eye. You'll see a dotted marquee around the area we selected.
At this point using the selection tool drag the selected dotted marquee to an area on the cats face that has fur. COPY and PASTE this area. Now you have a shape of the eye, that has the cat's coloring—REPEAT steps to do the right eye.
When you are done with each eye...your poor cat will look like this. POSSESSED. Line up the new eyelids directly over the top of the cats eye as accurately as you can. Just eyeball it...LOL!
MERGE your newly created eyelids with the original copy of the cat picture. MERGING means we have created a flattened image of your cat picture—one object.
Remember the COPY we MADE earlier of your furbaby? OK...We need it now. You should have a One Normal Picture of your cat and One picture with the eyes shut. We are only using two layers now.
Eyes Closed:
Eyes Opened:
Final Step: Launch your animation program and tell it to make frames from your layers. Click Play - Hooray! Your cat should be blinking.
