I want to do a very simple animation in photoshop. I have the animation panel up, but how do I make it so that every frame is not exactly the same? Like, if I draw a star in one frame the same star immediately appears on every other frame. How can I make it so that each frame stands alone?
Hi Anon.
Photoshop is not the best software to start trying animation out on. There is an animation thread on /ic/ that is your best bet.
>>16901920
God fucking dammit kate leth
>>16901920
got to kat . cr
download a crack (xforce usually)
get flash
it's still pretty complicated, but more accessible. and theres tons of video tutorials.
you're welcome
>>16901920
If the image is on a layer(not nested), you only need to drag the outpoint in the timeline to lengthen/shorten the duration.
Photoshop is acceptable for basic animation, but you should consider better alternatives for doing animation in the future.
>>16901920
Hide the layer the previous star was on.
I use Gimp (because I'm not that kind of artist). But I'd suspect photoshop follows similar principles to Gimp for gif animation. Every layer is a frame. Every frame can have a display time (in ms, not sure there's an upper bound of frame time but there's a lower bound at 50fps I believe) and display mode assigned to it (combine or replace). Usually the easiest way to animate something new would be to make a frame, duplicate it and make that the next frame. Then if you want it to be smaller (filesize) you use some of the optimization filters. They replicate the same result but use combine for everything (only has the changes for each frame).
You probably want some kind of time line/animation player. It helps you understand the result better.
