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Creating animated GIFs

Creating animated GIFs

- In the next few minutes, we're going to see how easy it is to rotate this bee around the flower and then export it as an animated gif file. In the layers panel, I will select the bee and I need to make a duplicate of it. So I'll use the keyboard shortcut Command + J on mac or Control + J on windows. And then I need to transform it 15 degrees so that it's going to eventually fly all the way around here. But when I go to Command + T and I try to transform this, well it's just going to transform it around the center point. So I'm going to undo that. And if your reference point or that center point isn't showing, be sure to enable that in the options bar. There are also some guides in this document, so you'll want to choose view, and then show, and then guides. So I want to position this reference point right down at the middle of the document, which is 4,000 by 4,000 pixels. So I need to place that right at the…

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