{"id":56928,"date":"2021-02-04T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=56928"},"modified":"2024-04-22T04:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:12:34","slug":"animated-stories-without-video-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/animated-stories-without-video-apps","title":{"rendered":"5 Quick Ways to Make Animated Stories Without Video Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More and more social platforms are relying on the use of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcstories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as a quick way of consuming content on the go. The idea was most made popular on apps such as Instagram and Snapchat, and what made \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcstories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 unique (at least at the time) was the fact that the stories themselves would disappear after they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been seen and then expire after some time. Short-form videos, photo galleries, or animations would show up in a user’s feed for a limited time. This format is ideal for account owners to engage or share a quick update with their followers without committing to a post that might last forever.
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Image featured: ANIMATED Stories Templates<\/a> by Sparrow & Snow.
People seemed to engage well with stories and the different content types that it encouraged, so unsurprisingly, many other apps and websites have introduced a similar feature somewhere in their feeds since then. For example, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook all have something resembling \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcstories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 baked into their platforms now, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe to say that the idea of consuming and creating content via \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is here to stay.
Like any other piece of content online, many people like to get creative with stories. Instead of posting raw photos or videos, there is a trend of people editing and composing engaging videos or animations for their stories ahead of time by making use of video editing software.
Thankfully you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always need to have access to video software when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to achieve engaging animated content for your stories. There are plenty of free or affordable methods that you can use to quickly make animated stories without using video apps \u00e2\u20ac\u201d here are 5 fantastic ways of doing just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Adobe Photoshop<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Photoshop is such a well-known design tool that it needs no introduction. Even those outside of the design world are familiar with what \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPhotoshopping\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is. Undoubtedly, many people feel like they know the key features of Photoshop and how effective it can be for photo editing and graphic design. Still, even today, people sometimes forget that Photoshop actually has several video editing tools built into it, which are accessible via the timeline option.
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Now, this is by no means a replacement for a fully featured video editing suite. Still, Photoshop has just enough animation features built-in to make it an effective way to quickly animate individual text or graphic elements once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finished composing your design.
Here are the basic steps involved in animating your story designs in Photoshop.
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1. Open your completed design.
2. Go to Window > Timeline.
3. Click \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Create Video Timeline\u00e2\u20ac from the new panel that should appear.
4. Expand the layer you wish to animate from inside the Timeline panel.
5. Click the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Enable Keyframes\u00e2\u20ac Icon (the one that looks like a stopwatch) on the attribute you wish to animate. For example, moving your text around would require you to enable keyframes for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transform.\u00e2\u20ac
6. You should see a yellow diamond appear on the timeline of the layer you are on. This signals that the parameters you set at this frame have been recorded. So for transform, for example, it means the position at this frame has been defined.
7. Move the playhead or scrubber forward in time, and then make your adjustments to the layer as required. For example, you could move your text to a new position.
8. With your adjustments made to the layer, click on the diamond on the left-hand side of the timeline window to add a new keyframe.
9. Photoshop will now \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcanimate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 i.e., fill in the frames between your first keyframe and your last with the appropriate motion.
10. Once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made adjustments to all layers you wish to animate, hit File > Export > Render Video\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to begin saving your video file.
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Animated Stories Templates for Photoshop <\/strong>
If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not comfortable designing stories from scratch and you wish to make use of some pre-made templates built in Photoshop, there are a huge number of high-quality Animated Story Templates for Photoshop<\/a> available on Creative Market. Each specific template may have its own process for editing the animations, but the basic steps from above will usually apply. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a selection of animated stories templates that we love\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n

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<\/span>Keynote<\/span><\/h2>\n

One surprisingly quick way of creating stories for Instagram is by using an app that many Apple computer users have access to for free already, Keynote. For those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, Keynote is essentially a presentation design app, similar to Powerpoint. I was surprised to find out that it can actually be used to create beautifully simple animations using any kind of images, illustrations, fonts, or graphics you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like.<\/p>\n