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# TJ: How the fuck do I stop imageready from deciding where it wants to position my frames?
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:40, archived)
# What you mean Mu, what you mean?
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:42, archived)
# I have some layers I want something to move behind, but imageready says no, and moves them out the way.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:44, archived)
# I have got no idea what you mean.
But good luck, and godspeed.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:47, archived)
# Which photoshop do you have?
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:44, archived)
# CS2
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:44, archived)
# Yeah just go to Window > Animation and use that instead. :]
You can optimise your gifs in the Save for Web window, it's much easier than pissing about in imageready.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:44, archived)
# That's not what I want to do, I want to prepare my frames beforehand. In the DECENT image editor.
Not the daft one that comes in imageready.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:47, archived)
# I'm saying you don't need to use imageready for anything at all.
You can open gifs in Imageready, move them over to Photoshop and sort out the layers the way you want them in photoshop, open the Animation panel (through the 'Window' drop down list) and make frames from layers that way - it saves you pissing about in imageready at all, outside opening the gif.
You can make animations using only photoshop, and save them with the save for web panel in photoshop without having to do anything at all in imageready.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:48, archived)
# Oh you meant the animation window in PS, yeah that moves my shit around too.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:48, archived)
# Yes, you need to make the layers the way you want them before opening them in frames.
If you need to edit the frames, you delete all of them (except one - IN THE ANIMATION WINDOW, not Layers!) then change the layers.
Then you click the arrow at the top right of the animation panel (assuming you're in windows, I don't use a mac) and select "Make frames from layers" to reimport the frames.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:50, archived)
# Rebuilding the animation from scratch seems to work.
I don't know about "make frames from layers" as I need to reuse and overlay the text frames.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 14:02, archived)
# have you tried making a single pixel width frame around each layer
then cropping the finnished thing by one pixel when its where you want it?
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 18:09, archived)
# The first frame shifts the relative position of the objects on the other frames
so move the object in the first frame and then on each frame there after.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 13:56, archived)
# Oh yeah, and there's some "propagate frame 1 changes" box you can untick to stop that happening.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 14:02, archived)
# That was the sort of thing I was looking for.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 14:03, archived)
# Really?
I wish I'd known about this!
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 14:04, archived)
# Yep
in my early attempts at ImageReady it was a continuing frustration- luckily I'm am now the master Mmmuuurururhahahaha... cough...haha
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 14:05, archived)
# yep that setting is a bitch
you'd think they'd make it more obvious. Even when you know what to look for it's easy to forget where it is.
(gtfomh, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 15:18, archived)