: Rotate moving object in Photoshop cc I'm trying to rotate the spokes of a motorcycle wheel that is also moving across the screen. ... I'm having a hard time keeping the orientation of the

@Shakeerah625

Group each of the three Spoke objects into one Spokes object. This will make selecting and re-positioning the spokes within the wheel component much easier

Alt + Click/Drag Center Point to re position rotational center point on an object)

Combine your spokes object with the Axels + Rims + Tyres objects to create your Final wheels Object in the right layer order.

clone the wheels object

Motorbike Object > Quick Select bike and wheels Alt + Click Objects

Duplicate the Motorbike object for each frame and adjust the components as required on each frame. (1 sec footage at 25 fps = you should have 25 separate frames) create enough duplicates to rotate the wheel smoothly. You can increase to 30fps etc.

right click layer > New smart object via copy

You should then be able to re position the Motorbike object and the two wheels objects and adjust the rotations as required along your path, easily animating the wheels at different speeds relative to the bikes distance with minimal work. And have the ability to adjust each frame as needed.

However, all that said, I would advise using a program such as After Effects to create such an effect as its very easy to import your Photoshop / Illustrator smart objects and animate them along complex paths in 3D and export in various formats.

You could animate a wheel object to speed up over time, offset them in the comp and animate the bike to move in the main comp having the wheels animated automatically relative to time / frame.

You would also have options for your frame rates / playback speeds.

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