Bouncing Ball Animation Project

SUMMARIZE
The quarter for school ended and now I am in the animation part of e-comm. The bouncing ball project was the first project in photo shop, that I did over the coarse of  the week. First, I  colored the first layer blue for the sky using the fill tool. Then I clicked new layer then used the selection tool to draw a box at the bottom of the page. This was colored green with the filler tool. After that I made a new layer and made a circle using the circle tool.  I was assigned to make a circle using the circle tool on photo shop. I used the gradient tool to make the circle look like a ball and copied that layer 8 more times. I moved each ball down with a farther distends from the previous layers ball and each one got longer as they went down. The second to last layer is pulled up then the last layer is horizontal. Lastly I animated the ball by clicking the timeline tool. I then added the slides and for each slide I clicked the previous ball layer to not be seen and the next too be seen. Finally I copied the slides and reversed them. I deleted the duplicates and set the play time on forever.            

WHAT YOU LEARNED?
 I was introduced to photo shop. In photo shop I learned how to make and add layers. I also learned many different key combinations. I also learned how to make a sun spot on the circle to make it look like a round 3D ball. I did this by using the gradient. I also learned how to use the filler tool, which I used on the blue sky and the green ground.    

WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENT OR SAME NEXT TIME?
If I were to do this project again I would try to make the ball bounce in different places. I could have also made the ball smaller. I think a moving sun would look cool too. Also, I think moving clouds would add a to the back drop.