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Pendulum Photoshop Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to draw a pendulum in Photoshop and then animate it swinging in Image Ready. You can see the result of this tutorial in the image below.

Step 1.

Start off by making a new photoshop document with a dark blue background and dimensions of 215 width and 24 height. Make a small light brown circle at the top, pushing it slightly out of the screen. In a new layer set make a rectangular selection. Make the foreground to light yellow (F1E438) and the background to a darker yellow (797309). Then, by dragging from the center of the selection, make a reflected gradient. Scale the gradients width, using the transform tool (edit > free transform), as shown in image c).

a)   b)   c)
Step 3.

Move the rectangle to the position shown in the image below and then go to Part 2 of this Photoshop tutorial.

   
   
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