Photoshop Session 2

In the second Photoshop lesson, we scanned our flip book sketches into Photoshop and actually turned them into a frame by frame animation. Though it was a tedious and time consuming process to scan all images individually into the computer, it was worth it to turn them into gifs and see them come to life! I have never done anything like this before, so I was pretty amazed to see such a simple thing be turned into a digital animation.

Attempt at making a watermelon split.

Once they were all scanned, we were taught how to change the levels to reduce the pencil marks and 15% greyness of the white background. I love the levels option on Photoshop, i've used it to enhance colours on my photos before but I also thought it was pretty clever in instantaneously making pencil drawings look like digital paintings. Though again, it got pretty tedious in cleaning up image after image, and by the end I was just ready to see them move.

Second attempt.

We then also were taught how to use the crop tool to change the ratio of the image, and also change the resolution for web. I remembered briefly going over this last lesson, but actually applying it to something helped me remember it more clearly. However, the cropping tool came in extremely handy, because it made ALL of my images the same size, so that was actually pretty quick and straightforward. 

That was when Bridge was introduced. I'd never heard of this programme, but it seemed efficient enough in what we were using it for. Basically, we opened up all our retouched images from our flip books into Bridge and then with a click of a button put them all into a new Photoshop document with all the images as separate layers. This saved heaps amount of time of copying and pasting, and was done in literally 5 seconds. I don't actually know what else this programme is used for, but it definitely was useful for making a gif.

First attempt at making a gif.

To conclude I feel like I learnt a heap load in this session. It seems really simple now that i've done a few of my own after the induction and even though it is really quite time consuming, I am excited to add some more colour and try out some other animations from flip books!

Note: Also posted this on the wrong area of my blog so reposting it here!