This is a great little tutorial that will show you how to create your very own animated beating heart. There is still a lot of time until Valentines Day but you can always make it and save it for later.
We always want to give presents to loved ones. These presents may be material or non-material. But Birthday Cards, Christmas Cards or Valentine’s Cards that can be sent to friends and family are always popular. Now you can create your own Cards! To begin a card you will create an animated heart.
So, open Photoshop. Create a New Document, size 300×300 px. Then, choose Shape tool with the Shape Layers parameter, then choose Heart Shape. Set out the Foreground Color #FD7FA3. Now draw a heart that should take up most of the space in the window. Choose Shape1 and Background together. Select Move tool and center the heart in the window.
Now go to Blending Options and set out the next Drop Shadow:
Inner Shadow:
Inner Glow:
Gradient Overlay:
Outer Glow:
Satin:
This is what you should get.
Now duplicate the layer three times with the heart. Using Free Transform tool, resize one heart to 95% of the original. The second heart to 90% of the original, and the third to 85% of the original, leave the fourth heart unchanged.
Now proceed to Image Ready (Ctrl+Shift+M).
Open the animation panel, then press the little triangle in the right upper corner of the panel. Press the Make Frame from Layers . Shift the layer with the background in the trash.
You should get 4 frames with 4 hearts having different sizes.
Choose the second frame and press Duplicate current frame. Then drag over the layer created at the end of the animation tape. Repeat the same procedure for the third heart.
You should get 6 frames. Now set delay time to 0.05 seconds for the first frame, and to 0.1 seconds for the fourth. Save your work and enjoy the result .
Thank you! I am rather new to Photoshop and am self-teaching myself as I go. this was a wonderful tutorial (although I got caught up on duplicating frames to make 4 into 6) – needless to say, it was very easy to follow and i will use to help me try new things from. Thanks again!
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Thank you for etellent suggestion for creation heart? !!!!!!!
The animation I performed in Flash- created movie clip from shape of heart, then edition of symbol – frame by frame- increase size, decrese size and than twin “shape”
P.S. Soory for grammatic errors, my maternal language is russian)))
very nice……..
thank you for this example but i am new with photoshop can you please guide me to a simpler example
than you
Love your tutorial! Want to use this as my avatar picture!
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well said, finally a good report on this stuff
hey i love this thing i use it all the time and i just showed my friend graham and he loved it so i got another person onto it it is awesome and i cant wait to use it again
That’S great! i like that
I really love this . very simple. The problem is I don’t know how to save . Can I ask How?
Sorry man but which is the shape tool i can’t find it i am noob at photoshop so i don’t kmow much
thanks in advance
hi …. i have made a animation on photoshop but it wont let me save it as a ” gif ” i tried saving as a web device then gif and that didnt work either … any ideas ?
TY so very much Tutorial Park! This was my first animation ever. I used a picture of a giant strawberry instead of heart . So easy to follow the steps and your instructions are clear and up to the point.
What else have got? :D
whoa! thanks so much. it helped me in decoration my page :)
Hi, I love the little pink heart it’s gorgeous and i’m thinking of using it on a website of mine.
The website isn’t launched yet.
Is it possible to do this technique with an image as the heart. like an animated pattern in a heart shape.
That is what I’d like to create.
I’d really appreciate a reply, I’m new to this internet design thing and I’m not that familiar with photoshop software at the moment, just a beginner…
:)
its very nice tutorial i like it
Great tutorial, i am beginner and i learn alot of this tutorial.
Many many thanks to this tutorial.
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hi! I am also new to photoshop. And I am running a website, but I would like to be able to make blends. Do you know how to blend pictures together?? if so it would make my life way easier! Thankyou!
This is gr8. LOVE IT !!!!!! IT WAS SO HELPFUL!!!!!
I dont understand, where is the free transform tool? and how do I resize it to 95%?
The problem is I don’t know how to save as animation, any ideas?
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Tnx
It is wounderful to lear the different ideas of other people around the world
keep up the good work – its real beautiful
thanks
thank you!
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Thank you for sharing your idea!..
I really love it!..
Thanks!..
how can i save the image ready??
i am just a beginner…
Hi …….. Myself Tarsem I want to learn a photoshop when i find this web site than its very easy for me learn a photoshop..
Mine didn’t come out like yours, It was animated though . . .I’m using CS4. I’m not sure what I did wrong.
Thank you for this! I am learning PSD and this really helped me figure out animation.
how can to correctly save this? i tried saving it, but the outcome wasn’t moving at all.
thanks, it very nice
A neat Tut but, I cannot find a shape tool in CS3 or CS4.What Photoshop are you using?
wow this is so cool.
thanks very much..
how can i save this in my computer, with the animation still playing?
i mean what should i do? plsss.
How do you save a GIF file?
because when I save it, it doesn’t animate
V’y nice. Wish u all the best.
many thanxx!! this is so HELPFULL!!! :)
Hi!
You save it by pressing the “Save to webb…” instead of just “Save as”. It is a little under the save as button.
Thank You Sooooooo Much. It was Very Nice.I Just LOVED It……..
this tutorial was awesome:D
It’s a fantastic tutorial but my stuff did not play!!!!!!!
Please, can anyone go step by step so as to cathc up?.
Much appreciations!!
super cool
hey i wnt a sparkly one so what i ave to do ta get one AYE!?
amazing tut! i did get stuck on the re-size of the 95% etc. but i was able to figure it out. and i almost forgot that it should be saved as “save for web & devices” instead of, “save as”. it’s been a while since i’ve made my last gifs lol. well here are my in results! ^_^
http://blakkenshin.deviantart.com/art/Animated-Heart-144941790
[...] Drawing Animated Heart [...]
ummmm i cant figure out how to open the animation panel……. :( control shift m didnt do anything for me either…..
Please Post PSD FIle.
HEY BABES THIS HEART ROCKS…………………………..
very coooooooooooooooooooool&nice&
So sad that a beginner new to using Photoshop cannot get a decent tutorial anywhere, where the teacher assumes that everyone is an expert and knows where everything is and all the terminology involved with Photoshop. How about some step by step instructions for those of us who are beginners.
it was very helpful! thanks! keep uploading lots like this!
Wonderful job………
Thanks,it’s really helpful, that really fantastic job.
hey,
so thanks and give other creative ideas of gif animation i like it thanks so much man u r greatttttttttttttttttttttttt
MY heart is also beating looking this post :)
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You are doing good job
I was so happy
Thanku
That’s Too nice, when it comes in india hope it can make a Rocking place for youngster.. hope that come true.
yeahh i made animated friendship heart it..n send my all frnds ….i
thankss
I would like to say “wow” what a inspiring post. This is really great. Keep doing what you’re doing!!
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heart love to very very muchSo sad that a beginner new to using Photoshop cannot get a decent tutorial anywhere, where the teacher assumes that everyone is an expert and knows where everything is and all the terminology involved with
So sad that a beginner new to using.Photoshop cannot get a decent tutorial anywhere, where the teacher assumes that everyone is an expert and knows where everything is and all the terminology involved with.
nice tutorial, thanks a lot dear!
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i knew that i can make it…….
it was so interesting………….
i like your heart design
Nice ..and ..Helpful…!
Thanks.
have sex in it
well something kissing but i like it
Nice tips for photoshop animation
umm, something isn’t working on this page
i think it is amazing i could possiblely nit that for u if u like but not moving
Could I ask what the BEST PotoShop for animating is?
I will be making an animation movie and i wanted to get Photoshop.
I’m using Gimp right now. XD
Thanks!
(Please Reply before christmas!)
its really very intersting to draw hearts
i like it very much
thank you for posting
hearts are signs of love
it is nice an thanks for a show .
Got to learn a lot haa…………..
awesome i used it for my background
thank you for the awesome tut. i have been using Photoshop for about 5 1/2 years, and in all that time, it never once dawned on my to use more than one effect in blending options on the same element. you have opened my eyes to something new, and i cannot wait to give it a try!!! thanks again!!
I dont get it!!!!!!????
y would u say have sex in it???? ur gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
This is just like the wild wild west here its great!
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OMg, it came out like urs waz, it was amazin
Hi. I liked the tutorial. I followed the instructions using text, to create an animated “new” icon for my web page at work. I’m really pleased with it. Unfortunately, we use a program/system that only accepts jpg or png images and animated gifs dont work. Life is so unfair.
Still for anyone else, you can use the same blending options and steps to create animated text. I shall see if I can upload the icon to my blog if anyone is interested in seeing how it works with text.
Kat
CAN YOU DRAW ME A PUPPY WHITH SAD EYES
HEART WHITH HEARTS IN IT
Love this pretty heart but was kind of hard 4 me :)
are you serious this sucked doesnt even tell you which colors to pick during the blending options step
it looks cooll!!!!!!!!
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To begin a card you will create an animated heart.
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