creating more backgrounds

In this lesson I focused on creating my spaceship background. To start with I experimented with filters, each creating a nice effect but not quite looking how I imagined. I decided I wanted the sky to look different and change colour the same way I made the sky background earlier. To separate the sky from the ground I rubbed it out using the rubber tool. I made the sky look more alien using the neon filter then pasted it onto the copy I had prepared. This gave a really nice effect which when the hue was changed looked very 'other worldly'. I next prepared my spaceship on photoshop, this was just a simple drawing coloured with bright colours. I pasted this onto my image of the space scene many times so I could later animate it. I positioned every new layer slightly above the other to make it look like it was taking off. To animate the sky I moved the hue by 5% and created a new layer with each different coloured sky. I opened the animate window and created enough slides to allow the rocket ship to fly out of sight. This was extremely difficult. It seemed after I positioned them perfectly and started to choose which layers should go in each frame they had moved so the animation didn't work. I discovered this was due to 'snap' which needed to be turned off. After I had arranged the layers and frames how I wanted I set the time to 0.2 of a second and the spaceship flew off as I had first wanted to. I liked the way it wasn't perfect so I decided to not use 'tweening' to keep that effect. I am very happy with this animation it was the most difficult so far and took me almost five hours but it works. To export I needed to reduce the Pixels per inch to 100 and the image size by almost half to make a smaller document which was easier to export.