animation

[danfitchie]

Hi i am using CS2 and have just started to look into little animated GIFs, and i have to admit i cannot figure out the animation tool in photoshop. I have an incredibly basic stick man to start with, with one of his arms on another layer. I duplicate the first frame and then in frame 2 transform the arm so that it would make it look like a wave. But whatever i do in the second frame happens in the first frame aswell. So there is no animation. I use other animation programs like flash and 3Dstudio and when you change something in the second frame there is no altering of a previous frame. Does photoshops animation work differently?

[rAyVoLvEz]

Photoshop animations basically work upon the layer visibility principle.

If you want a change to the stickman's arm in 2nd frame, duplicate the arm on another layer (ctrl-j), then turn off visibility for the original arm layer in this 2nd frame, turn on visibility of duplicate arm and rotate it.

Hope this is helpful.

[danfitchie]

ahh right thankyou, not the usual animation techinque im used to. is this the only way photoshop can animate or are there other ways?

[orb of light]

Hi danfitchie


Check out this link for some tutorials on using Photoshop for animation: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial...op/Animation/1

Hope they help

ORB