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Create an easy animated AIM Buddy Icon using Photoshop and ImageReady

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Tutorial Volume 9: Animated AIM Buddy Icon

This tutorial will attempt to show you how easy it is to create an animated image which can be used for multiple graphics such as AIM's buddy icon. This Tutorial uses adobe photoshop and adobe imageready.

Open up a new canvas 50x50 by pressing the ctrl+N keys on your keyboard, or just go to FILE>new.

Under the LAYER tab you see right now we have only one layer and it is called BACKGROUND. double click that layer and rename it to layer 0.

Now come up with a theme you want your buddy icon to have. Since it is now 2006, i will make a simple animation in which 2005 will be erased and 2006 redrawn in. (this tutorial is only to show you have to go about designing a custom buddy icon for AOL Instant Messenger. it is not to show you how to design a complicated piece of work! the creative design is left up to you, the graphic designer!)

I will begin by selecting an interesting font to use for 2005. select the "T" icon button on the left toolbar, this is the tool to input text into our canvas. after you select the T icon, look at the top toolbar, and select your font face, font color, and font size.

Press shift+ctrl+N to create a new layer, "Layer 1". on Layer 1, we will once again enter in some text, this time instead of 2005, we will put 2006 in a different font style to make it stand out. also i will make the 2006 text larger too, so when we input this image over to imageready, we can make it scroll.

We should turn off the layer visibility for both the 2005 and 2006 layers so it will be easier for us to work on other features of the icon without the text getting in the way. to do this, just click on the "eyeball" next to each layer so it disappears which inturn will make the layer disappear.

I want to have an eraser rub out the old 2005 text which will make way for the new 2006 scrolling text. to do this i will create a very simple pencil with an eraser tip. select the line tool on the toolbar on the left. make sure to give it a yellow (ffff00) coloring and a thickness of 10. draw out a vertical line and then a smaller line on top of the yellow line but in the color grey (696969) that will be the eraser tip.


 

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