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Animate layer styles

Animate layer styles - Photoshop Tutorial

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Animate layer styles

- [Instructor] Layer effects are useful for adding simple visual styling to graphic elements in your projects. With the keyframe animation capabilities in Photoshop, you can animate a layer effect so that it gradually appears or disappears over a specified duration of time. Let's check it out. So in this file we have the same Iceland river and waterfall clips that we worked on earlier, and let me just give you a quick tour so you know what's going on. We have the basic river clip. I have added an ellipse shape, and to that I have added some keyframe animation so it goes across the screen, and just as we saw in the earlier exercise where the waterfall showed up in the type, this time the waterfall is showing up inside that ellipse shape courtesy of the clipping group behavior that we explored earlier. So we still have that same curves layer that's lightening the water, and then a new element is here. A rasterized type layer that we're gonna place inside this ellipse in a little bit…

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