thread jacking my own post...Haven't been around in a while, bet noone missed me!
I have a question: I have recently 'acquired' a copy of photoshop 7 with image ready... and am trying to teach myself to do anims.... for some reason I can't get the background to stay the whole way through. I have the image layered in photoshop, then jump to image ready and make each layer a frame, I'm sure there is another way to do it?
I have also copied each frame and edited the layers on it, but I'm pretty sure that jacks up the file size.... anyone shed some light on this for me?
Thanking you
(I have a question: I have recently 'acquired' a copy of photoshop 7 with image ready... and am trying to teach myself to do anims.... for some reason I can't get the background to stay the whole way through. I have the image layered in photoshop, then jump to image ready and make each layer a frame, I'm sure there is another way to do it?
I have also copied each frame and edited the layers on it, but I'm pretty sure that jacks up the file size.... anyone shed some light on this for me?
Thanking you
@stephenshortt Jaysus it's been a while!,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:22,
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All you need to dois make sure the background layer is left on in all the frames.
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bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:23,
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but howis this accomplished?
( @stephenshortt Jaysus it's been a while!,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:32,
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Basically,you have to treat every new frame as a new picture (sort of).
You need to sort out the psd file first, for instance, if you had a penguin moving through a snowy landscape you make the landscape a separate layer and the penguin a separate layer. Have your penguin at the starting point, duplicate the layer then move the duplicated penguin layer to the next position you want it in, and so on and so on till you've completed the animation.
Then take the psd file into Imageready.
For the first frame, make sure the background layer and the first penguin is layer turned. Then go to the next frame, keep the background layer turned on, but turn off the first penguin layer and turn on the second layer, and go through the whole thing like that.
(You need to sort out the psd file first, for instance, if you had a penguin moving through a snowy landscape you make the landscape a separate layer and the penguin a separate layer. Have your penguin at the starting point, duplicate the layer then move the duplicated penguin layer to the next position you want it in, and so on and so on till you've completed the animation.
Then take the psd file into Imageready.
For the first frame, make sure the background layer and the first penguin is layer turned. Then go to the next frame, keep the background layer turned on, but turn off the first penguin layer and turn on the second layer, and go through the whole thing like that.
bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:39,
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Ok,,,,I think I got it.... have to go find something funny to animate and I shall return - hopefully triumphant but probably with some dirge that I got to move....
Cheers!
(Cheers!
@stephenshortt Jaysus it's been a while!,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:45,
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What's wrong with reading the manual?Or are you just showing off that you've got a copy?
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Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:23,
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not showing off...when I "acquired" the CD I didn't get a manual with it, and peoples in here have much more experience than I
( @stephenshortt Jaysus it's been a while!,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:29,
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Manual?You don't often get those with "aquired" versions of software.
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Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:34,
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i have used those methodsand never had a problem
i usually make the backgound a layer on its own which is visible for all the frames
then make the rest of the image in photoshop and copy each frame accross on top and only visible when appropriate
(i usually make the backgound a layer on its own which is visible for all the frames
then make the rest of the image in photoshop and copy each frame accross on top and only visible when appropriate
lemony,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:24,
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do you knowi wasn't aware imageready came with photoshop until this moment. i always used fireworks and fucking hated it.
i am such a twat.
(i am such a twat.
dipdapdop,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:25,
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hahathat amuses me for some reasn... didn't it put an icon for it into your start menu#?
(or are you a mac user)
((or are you a mac user)
lemony,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:27,
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aah no fucking way.yes. yes it did.
fucksake.
it put itself in the nasty XP used-a-lot bit and i never looked for it in my over bloated programs menu. and i wasn't expecting imageready anyway.
why's that not in the FAQ eh? because everyone else in the world knows.
(fucksake.
it put itself in the nasty XP used-a-lot bit and i never looked for it in my over bloated programs menu. and i wasn't expecting imageready anyway.
why's that not in the FAQ eh? because everyone else in the world knows.
dipdapdop,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:37,
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It shouldn't jack up the file size......the optomised gif is completely independent of the PSD file you are working from.
I tend to make each moving part in the animation a seperate layer and simply select which I want to show using the layer pallete in imageready - you can just make sure the background layer is visible in each frame.
Watch when you move things about though - moving something in the first frame tends to move it in all the other frames too.
(I tend to make each moving part in the animation a seperate layer and simply select which I want to show using the layer pallete in imageready - you can just make sure the background layer is visible in each frame.
Watch when you move things about though - moving something in the first frame tends to move it in all the other frames too.
Mystery_Bob,
Wed 19 Nov 2003, 16:33,
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