Animation in Adobe Photoshop: Create a Social Video to Promote Your Brand

Learn how to easily create an animated video in Photoshop!

Have you ever wanted to create a video to promote your personal brand or business on social? It’s actually pretty simple! In this class, you’ll learn the basics of video concepting and animating in Photoshop. This class will be a great first step for anyone who is experienced with photoshop and wants to start learning motion graphics. 

By the end, you’ll know all the techniques to create fun videos to showcase your work or business.

What you'll learn:

• Concepting video ideas
• Finding inspiration for motion graphics
• Fundamentals of using the timeline tool and creating animation
• Prepping assets for animation
• Techniques for animating logos
• How to create fun video transitions
• Icon animation
• Exporting work as a video or animated gif

What you'll make:

At the end of the class, you will have created a custom video that will impress others, as well as some useful skills to create additional fun and unique videos. 

What you'll need:

• Adobe Photoshop (free trial of the software program at Adobe.com)
• Any assets you would like to use in your project such as a logo, images of your work or product, and any other brand elements

If you need a beginner's course in Photoshop: Learn Adobe Photoshop: Fundamentals for Getting Started

My expertise:

I’m a senior art director and motion designer with several years of experience working for agencies that created video projects ranging from animated explainer videos to social content and broadcast commercials. And I have worked in every phase of the process from concepting and storyboarding video ideas to art directing motion designers/animators and even animating content myself. And I structure my classes to be helpful for designers, artists and anyone else who is new to animation.

Additional Resources:

This class briefly walks through storyboarding but if you would like to dive deeper into the full process then check out my class, Storyboarding in Procreate: Beginner's Guide to Drawing Storyboards

You can also check out my other Photoshop classes, Hand Drawn Animation in Photoshop and Audio Editing for Beginners in Adobe Photoshop.

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