Flipbooks Using Photoshop Actions

Many designers and crafts savvy creatives are now thinking about cool things they can design for the upcoming holiday season. xtine burrough, coauthor of Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite, interprets the Photoshop Actions panel to show you how to create very cool flipbooks!

Many designers and crafts savvy creatives are now thinking about cool things they can design for the upcoming holiday season. If you’re a designer in business, a creative “gift” for clients and friends will add further pizazz to your identity and illustrate your abilities.

One very cool project comes from the age-old world of movie making. At some point, someone discovered that if you saw a series of progressive images very rapidly, they would give the visual illustion of motion.

Take a look at this video “Squeeze Me” by Kraak & Smaak, and then read this article by xtine burrough, coauthor of Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite, showing how to set up Photoshop’s useful actions to automate a template for making a flipbook.


This free chapter is from Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite

Also see: Real World Digital Photography, 3rd Edition, by Katrin Eismann, Sean Duggan, and Tim Grey
Real World Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers by Conrad Chavez

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