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Using Photoshop, I want to animate lines I have drawn and applied a glow effect to. The Warp effect will give the look I want, but how can I animate it? Can I set keystones to move it?
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I think you mean »keyframes«.
And you seem to be confusing Photoshop with actual animation-oriented software like After Effects.
In Photoshop I suppose you would need to create Smart Object instances and warp them individually.
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Yes, working from home has got me scatterbrained. I knew when I typed it, there was something not right.
Doing the Smart Object solution was what I came up with also. It's OK, but not great. Not sure I want to jump into AE for this project. I am looking to replicate "electrified" lines: sharp movement, jiggly lines, etc. Thanks for the help!
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I am not an After Effects user myself but I am convinced the task could be done more easily there.
That nonewithstanding: Have you tried SO instances (again) on Frame Animation but with random Displacement Masks (see gif below)?
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Yes, that is what I had in mind...I will try that! Thank you.
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The Displacement Maps have Filter > Render > Clouds (with reset Back- and Foreground Color) applied separately to the R- amd G-Channel.
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Thanks, but it is apparent to me that I need more simplified steps to get to this point.
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• create several Displacement Maps
• create the corresponding number of copies of the Smart Object
• apply the Displace Filter with a different one of the DMs to each SO-instance
• Make Frames From Layers
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Thank you for taking the time to spell this out for me!
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You’re welcome.
If the lines need to be the same width over the whole length you could use Blend if-settings, and Layer Style Stroke on a Group with 0% Fill.
Or maybe try Illustrator.
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Just use smart objects, then a timeline and set your keyframes and that should work out fine.