Recent Additions:

Creating a Simple Web Advertisement

Toon Site Navigation Header

Creating Cool Celebrity Wallpapers

Shopping Site Animated Banner

Designing a Cake Shop Logo

Creating a Girlie Smiley

Drawing a Cartoon Horse

Colorful Beads Text Effect

XP Style Wind Mill Icon

Water Ripples Navigation Header

Shopping Mall Logo

Creating a Lovefool Smiley

Animated No Smoking Sign

Creating and Animating Incense Sticks

Creating a Futuristic Logo

3D Leather Text Effect

Changing Calendar Dates

Logo with Iconic Headphones

Animating a Dolphin Diving Into the Water

Creating Diamond Earrings

Animated Night to Day Effect With Rising Sun

 



Creating and Animating Incense Sticks

Start by applying a gradient to the background.

Create a 2 pixels tilted line using line tool.

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

Create several duplicates of the line, rotate at different angles and place as shown.

Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool.

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

Duplicate the layer several times and place below each other.

Select and merge all the ellipse layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select perspective. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.

Select a 4 pixels feathered brush and create a smoke shape.

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

Reduce the opacity to 50%.

Open animation window. For the first frame keep the layers as shown in the image below.

Duplicate frame. Select the smoke layer. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Open the pattern overlay panel. With this panel open drag the mouse on the smoke shape itself. This will move the pattern with in the smoke shape.

Duplicate frame and keep moving the pattern as explained above for these frames.

Similarly create smoke coming g out from the other sticks.

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