Final Project Proposal

Tutorial: How to create animated gifs/graphics with Photoshop 
Week 5
I'm deciding on to just take screencaps of the program and discuss about it step by step on a page. If that does not work, I will use Captivate and make a video with audio instead.  I am just going to make a tutorial using screencaps and text. No Captivate. 

Content:
Making animated pictures through frames with Photoshop and turn them into gifs. Instead of creating animation with single images like a slideshow, we can make animated pictures with video files. When the animated graphic is made, it looks just like scenes from a video. We can turn the animated gif into looking just like straight from a video.

Media needed:
Photoshop, video file, browser, screen captures. audio? Adobe Captivate? 

Target Audience:
teenagers, young adults, ages 14+, anyone who wants to make animated gifs 

Flowchart pages: 
introduction, instruction step by step, conclusion of summary 

Optional add-ins (still in deciding):
How to create animated gif to post on Tumblr

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[EDIT UPDATE 8/19/11]: added more for the tutorial

Tutorial: (divided into steps of these categories)

1. How to download and convert the video file
2. How to use Photoshop (basic) (unconfirmed)
3. How to create animated graphics/gifs with Photoshop (main focus)
4. How to add/edit special effects on the animation (advanced level)
5. How to use Tumblr (?) 
6. How to post to animated graphic to Tumblr blog

TO-DO List for tutorial:
- numbered steps
- headers in large font size
- bullet points for keys
- highlight important areas in red border, red arrows to point
- bold text for important words
- crop off unwanted screencap areas
- introduction of what to expect from tutorial
- conclusion with a summary of whole tutorial