The following tutorial is on how to make your car rotate around. Here you will learn how to use Photoshop and ImageReady to accomplish your task.

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1) Open up the file of the car you want to rotate... we'll be using this BMW that I mess around with to test out new modification practices.




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2) Use the rectangular selection tool to select the side view of your vehicle (leave a little room to spare on each side)




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3) Copy using Edit -> Copy or CTRL+C

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4) Go to File -> New Document... PS should have already sized it to match what you just copied, so leave the size as it is unless you want to do something else.

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5) Paste in the side view of your car that you copied from step 3




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6) Paste in the side view of your car AGAIN. This will create a new layer, one idential to the first.




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7) select one of the layers window pictured above and go to Edit -> Transform -> Flip Horizontal




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8) Copy and paste in the front and back views into the picture as well. You now have all the layers you need to make this animation. Go ahead and use the fill tool to make all the background (gray and white checkered) area white. You might not be able to see the background from your current view, but it shows up in the layer thumbnails. If you don't remove the gray and white checkered area, your rotation picture will shrink and grow with each frame and look funny.




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9) Click the first layer you made (side view) , click the little ( > ) button in the right hand corner and select Merge Down so that that one frame moves down into the background layer




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10) In the layers box, select either the front or back view of your vehicle and drag it down between the two side views.




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11) At the bottom of your toolbar should be a button like the one pictured below. Click it. It will transfer your image into ImageReady.




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12) Once in imageready, go to the animation window, click the little ( > ) button in the upper right corner and select ' Make Frames from Layers '

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13) If you go and press play, you'll see the preview image goes WAAAY too fast. To fix this, below each frame you can set the delay between them.






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14) Once you're satisfied with what you've got, go to File -> Save Optimized As... and save your picture. THE REGULAR 'SAVE' WILL NOT WORK.

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15) And the end result...

IN image ready you should really change the timing.. Make it seem like it's truely on a showroom floor..

well that's up to the one havin it rotating actually