Start by opening
an image of a tennis player.
Create an circular selection around the
ball using elliptical marquee tool.

Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection into
new layer. Hide the layer.

Select
clone stamp tool and clone the hollow portion.

Create selection of the hand using polygon lasso
tool. Press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut paste the selection in a new layer.
Hide this layer.
Similarly select the clone stamp tool and
clone the hand area.
Unhide the hand layer. Duplicate and rotate
slightly.

Similarly
create one more duplicate and adjust hand positions and rotations
as shown in the image below.

Unhide
the ball layer and create some duplicates as shown in the image
below.

Create an elliptical selection
using elliptical marquee tool. Create a new layer and fill it
with gray color. Move this layer below all the ball layers in
layer order in layer palette. This will create the shadow of the
ball.

Open animation window. For the first frame hide all
the ball layers except the top one and hide two hand layers

Duplicate frame. Hide the first hand layer and unhide the second
one. Similarly hide the first ball layer and unhide the second.

Similarly create more duplicate frames and keep hiding and unhiding
sequential layers.



Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated
GIF.


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