Once you have your sketch ready, you're going to transfer it into Photoshop. The first step is to open Photoshop and create a new document, you can come up here to file and click on new. This will open a window of options for your set for your documents size. The key to gifts is to make them light, they don't need to be huge, and they don't need a high resolution because they'll only be seen on screens. So let's create a document that's a good size for Instagram can make it a square image. So the first thing we can do is make sure we're in pixels over here.

And then set your width to 1080 and your height to 1080 as well. For the resolution, we can first make sure that you're in pixels per inch. That's important, not centimeters, and then you can set it to 150. That's a medium resolution. If you'd like to go smaller, you can use 72 For this purpose, we'll use 150. And the last thing you need to make sure is that you're in RGB color mode.

This is important because this is the color mode that's used for screens. So once you've set all of these options to what I have here, you can click on Create, and you'll open up your new document. Now that you have your document, you can import your sketch, I just took a picture of my sketch with my phone, and since it's on my computer, so import your picture into Photoshop, you open up the folder where you saved it. If you're on a Mac, you can go to finder, find your sketch, and then you can drag it into your Photoshop window. So I'm going to click on it and just drag it in. You'll see that your sketch has this x in the middle.

That means you're using the Transform tool and you can drag the corners of your image to resize it. Make sure you hold down the shift button Drag one of the corners to resize your sketch. If you don't hold Shift down, you'll lose the proportion of your sketch and you don't want that. So make sure you click shift. Then you can resize your sketch to whatever size you want and drag it to the middle. Then you can press enter, you'll see you have a new layer, which is your sketch.

What you want to do is change the opacity of this layer so that it's transparent. First, you click on the layer, make sure it's selected. Then you come up here to opacity and drag it down to around 30%. You'll see this makes the layer transparent. If you can't see this Layers panel, or if your workspace does not look similar to mine. You can come up here to Window workspace and click on essentials default.

This will give you a workspace that's a little similar to mine. Now you can create a new one By clicking this button down here in the Layers panel called Create New Layer. Once you click it, you'll see you get a new layer above your sketch layer. In this layer, you can use your tablet to draw all of the parts of your illustration that will not be animated. In my case, since my hair is in a different color, and that's the part I want to animate. I'm going to draw everything else that isn't the hair.

You can use your tablet and the brush tool in order to draw these parts of your illustration. The brush tool you can get to over here on the left or right clicking. I have a lot of brushes downloaded, you can find a lot of free web brushes online. If you search for Photoshop brushes, you can download them in Photoshop, making sure you're in this new layer. You can draw all of these parts of your illustrator I like to be very organized with my layers. So I'm going to rename this layer it is true as static frame.

This way, I know that it's never going to when you want to rename a layer, you just click twice over the text and it'll let you make changes to it. If you're using procreate, the process is the same. Make sure you use different layers and rename your layers because once you send your appropriate file into Photoshop, it'll open up exactly the same. I also like to color on a different layer. So I'm going to create a new layer called static color. And that's where we're going to put the color into my illustration.

So at some point during your process, you want to make sure to save your file in coughed, so File, Save As, and you can save it anywhere you like. I'm going to save it as gift Skillshare and you can save it as a regular Photoshop file. Your illustration should look something like this. In the next video, I'll show you how to illustrate the parts of your animation that will be moving by using different layers.