Animation tools in Photoshop?

I am presently using Photoshop CS3 for animations and I must say that the tools are simple and easy to underatand. but I can't help noticing that most of the features pertaining to the animation aspect of Photoshop has not be improved since ImageReady.Now I have been trying to tween layer scale and rotate transformations but it doesn't work,if you scale a layer in a frame,it affects the others.
Pls,I am asking the developers to add the following features for Photoshop CS6:
Motion Tween presently has layer position,opacity and effects(It has been this way since Image Ready to CS5).Kindly add scale,rotate,and other transformations.I do not know why this has not been added.
-Also allow importation of audio files preferably wav,asf files.
I am begging you guys.This software is very popular around the world.If you add these,it will make animating so much easier.Right now,I have to make the frames into layers and resize each layer to animate scale transforms and it is time consuming.

Well..to some Photoshop might not appear like an ideal tool for animation but most people use Photoshop for drawing and painting and its better than most softwares in this respect though I hear corel painter is cool.So wouldn't it be cool for people who use Photoshop for drawing and painting and are familiar with it features to use it for animating.I do not know what you have against the software.
I enjoy animating the traditional way.Thats my own preference.It encourages creativity and I do not consider it tedious at all.Some people still make use of the lightbox for animating.I have tried Anime Studio and I hated the graphics and the whole drawing a character and sticking bones,painting skin weights that leads to bad deformation in certain areas.Keyframing with numbers and all that stuff.The animated movements look robotic.Animated shows like atomic betty and King Authur seem like softwares done with Anime Studio.I hate all those long process and key framing and whatever workflow.
With Photoshop,all I need to do is just draw.Thats all.To some people,drawing and colouring every frame may be work but I enjoy doing that.I even know of someone who used Flash and switched to Photoshop because of its graphics capablilities are far better than Flash.
I realize Photoshop might be lacking some features but because it does doesn't mean its not an ideal tool.Thats your opinion.If its not,why does the extended version have timeline animation(which I dislike).Simply put,Its not up to you to decide whether Photoshop gets these features or not.Adobe will decide.Stop discouraging them.Adobe might even make these features available as a plugin or patch that will be compatible with CS3 upwards.I enjoy using it for animation presently.
Here is something I did in Photoshop some time back.Took me two days:
Was real fun to animate.There are others far better than me.I hope I get better so Adobe,I will really appreciate it if these features are added.

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Flash as a Character Creation tool... After Effects as the Animating tool

I was watching a tutorial in Lynda.com in which an animation studio in California used Flash as their drawing and painting tool for the creation of Characters... not sure what they used for the subsequent animation of the characters, but their feeling was that Flash was a better intuitive freehand/variable width outline creation program than Illustrator or photoshop for this application... I'm not sure of their choice of Animating tools, but, its been my feeling that After Effects seems to be a more user friendly (organized) and robust, yet less confusing keyframing program than Flash... thus my question on the subject matter is....... does anyone out there have any experience with this scenario of using Flash for character creation then exporting the hopefully layered and vector artwork into After Effects for animation, and if so what is the proper workflow as far as exporting goes from Flash to get the character set up in After effects for animating. I know the rigging and Hierarchy workflow in After Effects... more specifically I'm asking about file type for exporting from Flash to possibly keep the vector characteristics once in After Effects. If I am off in my thoughts please clarify for me if possible the best programs for these applications!

My experiences back your theory.
I love Flash with a Passion for years Its great for low budget projects because it lets you pump out results fast. But it also has its faults as soon as you move into the medium budget realm, with more than 4-5 people working on the same project for more than a month. It will get messy, you will start to loose more and more work because of flashs rising crash tendencies. It may come in handy even in big budget productions, but solely as a Preproduction tool, that you use for developing storyboards or pitch ideas. After Effects has a steeper learning curve but in the end I would say its a much more reliable, solid tool for animators than Flash.
I felt actually inspired by your post to come up with a little comparison bewtween flash/AE concerning the character animation workflow
Character animation Celebrity Deatmatch : FLASH vs. AFTER EFFECTS
Flash
After Effects
Robustness
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Shared Assets across platforms
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Auto-Lipsynching options
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Drawing Capabilities
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0
Quick Results
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TargetFormats
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Animationlimit
1 min
>60 min
2nd Party frameworks especially for animators
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2,5 D/3D capabilities
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Audio workflow
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Interactive capabilities
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Programming language
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0
Particles
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I was astonished that the result was so clear.

Keyframe using the puppet warp tool in photoshop CS6?

Is there any extension or way that will allow me to keyframe using the puppet warp tool in photoshop CS6?
I'm doing 2d animation, and I need to draw lines that I can immediately animate using puppet warp (you can't draw in after effects).

I am removing a dust spot from video clips taken during an aerial shoot. I have discovered that the only effective way to remove these spots effectively is to use PS6 and go frame by frame using the paint brush, clone stamp, and spot healing brush. It is very time consuming and mind numbing but the only thing that works with all tha movement of the aircraft and the ground below.
My question:
Right now to advance the clip one frame at a time - I must magnify the time line so to see the frame by frame lables. To advance to the next frame I must remove my cursor from the work area and go down to the time line and click on the next frame.
How can I advance to the next frame with a keyboard stroke and not move my cursor out of the work area?
Thank you in advance for any help.
Tony

Animation Tool Bar help please and thank you!

In the old version of Photoshop that I am used to there was an Animated tool bar to make "flipping" photos, how do I access this in the newer version downloaded?

Don’t know what you mean by ""flipping" photos" exactly but have you checked out Window > Timeline yet?

Using Text Tool Freezes Photoshop CC 2014.2 x64 release

I have just updated Photoshop CC to 2014.2.0 -- 20140926.r.236 x64 release. Now I am experiencing an issue when I use the text tool to just type a few words on a new document or layer. The application seems to freeze up as soon as I start typing? I wait several minutes with nothing happening and have to resort to using the Windows task manger to kill the photoshop processes. This did not happen before I updated to this release?? Please advise how to fix this if possible to [email protected].
I'm using Windows 7 x64
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http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/using-text-tool-freezes-photoshop-cc -2014-2-0-20140926-r-236-x64-release/replies/14873829

Check out this other thread I started
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/using-text-tool-freezes-photoshop-cc -2014-2-0-20140926-r-236-x64-release?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign =new_reply&utm_content=reply_button&reply[id]=14914157#reply_14914157
There it's help there. I've not totally solved my problem but others seemed to have.
Richard

I am trying to create a simple animated gif in Photoshop. I've set up my frames and want to use the tween to make the transitions less jerky. When I tween between frame 1 and frame 2 the object in frame two goes out of position, appearing in a different p

I am trying to create a simple animated gif in Photoshop. I've set up my frames and want to use the tween to make the transitions less jerky. When I tween between frame 1 and frame 2 the object in frame two goes out of position, appearing in a different place than where it is on frame 2. Confused!

Hi Melissa - thanks for your interest. Here's the first frame, the second frame and the tween frame. I don't understand why the tween is changing the position of the object in frame 2, was expecting it to just fade from one frame to the next.

Can I create an animated gif in photoshop touch?

How can I save the various layers in a project into an animated gif? Photoshop Touch doesn't appear to have the same functioality, or is it just differently set up?

We are not the right people to ask. The Touch forum (for tablet) is at
Adobe Photoshop Touch for tablet
There's a long list f video tutorials here, but I can't see anything about animation
Learn Photoshop Touch | Adobe TV

Animated PNG in Photoshop?

I know how to creat animated GIF files in PS without issue. Is there anyway to create an Animated PNG in Photoshop? (including using 3rd party plugins)

Has support for video formats progressed to the point where you can have a small, high-quality animated element right inline on a page without a play button? And is there (partial) transparency in any video format?
One does see such things in Flash, and I've certainly still got to go educate myself better on what can be done with HTML5.
As far as having animated PNGs, it's not hard to think of applications where elements appear to hover over other elements on the page, perhaps drop shadows on the background, and move smoothly. As a primitive example, bring up this page with a PNG, resize it, and (assuming the movement animates quickly for you, as it does in IE9) note how it catches your interest because it's doing something uncommon... We've had GPUs that can easily facilitate real-time multilayer combinational rendering for a while now. Granted, it might not be good to have EVERYTHING moving around and jockeying for position in the Z-order all at once. That could end up as a good ol' fashioned mess. But imagine the above ball rolling onto the page, and the pieces animating to show the prospective buyer how the puzzle works.
With any data on the net, it's always a given that "less is better", but data size is not the only concern. The job is being done in the first place to create value -- if no one thought that actually putting rich, eye-catching elements on web pages was valuable then all we'd have is black text on gray backgrounds.
-Noel

Looking for a more suitable animation tool

I've been creating animations from sprites in After Effects, with mixed results. The input is a number of pixel art sprites (exported from elsewhere), and the output is a video, characters running around and interacting. I have AFX doing quite a lot, but it's very awkward and I'm pretty sure it's the wrong tool for the job. Can anyone either suggest better approaches, or more suitable software? I'll describe what I'm doing now:
- Many sprites are bodies or heads to combine, eg. a smiling or angry faces and walking or standing bodies. I set the head position for each body sprite, so any head fits in the right place on any body (trivial rigging), then apply it with a script, so I can change the body and the head moves to the right place automatically.
- Some sprites have multiple layers. For example, while heads are normally on top of bodies, a body may have an arm raised, which needs to be above the head instead of below it. I can create the extra layer for the body separately, and it works for any head.
- I can set the draw order per-layer. Usually, one character and all of its parts is drawn on top of another--body1, head1, body2, head2. But, if two characters collide, handshake, or interact in other complex ways, I may want to draw both bodies, and then both heads, even though the heads and bodies are still anchored normally. Some sprites may have multiple layers, eg. body, head, hands, legs. (Z position hack...)
- Individual layers can be adjusted separately, eg. to adjust the default head position downwards to give a nod.
- Some sprites are hue shifted (hair color, clothing color) or have more complex adjustments applied, so I can reuse more sprites.
(I'm only describing what I'm doing and not how. I wrote more detail about what I'm actually doing in AFX and the specific issues I'm having, but it was too long and people can probably already guess the practical issues of using AFX like this. I'll post more info if anybody asks.)
The result is functional, but a real hassle to actually work with. AFX is a compositing and effects tool and it's not really designed for animations, and only its scripting support has let me abuse it this much. I don't know of a better tool, though--searches for animation tools mostly come up with things like Spine (authoring individual models for importing into games), and nothing suitable for creating complex video animations from sprite sets.
There are probably many tools to do small pieces of this (sprite animation sequences, effects, scene animation, camera), but I'd really like to not split into a multi-tool workflow, since I want to experiment freely with a scene, not lay out an entire scene and then create it start to finish. Does anyone have any suggestions (or better places to ask)?

There are many other DTP applications:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=137&mforum=iworktips ntrick
You have to be more specific about what you are looking for.
Peter

Can't find 3d tool in photoshop cs6 extented?

We purchaseed adobe design and web premium cs6, which inclueded photoshop extended, in last week. When we try to use 3D tool in photoshop we can't find with enable. How can i enable the tool. the following images showing without 3d tool. I did deactivate and avtivate again. I have only system build graphic card. Is it need to fix additional graphic card? what graphic card is suitable for using 3D tool? below given my system information.give me the suggestion.
Kindly give me the solution to enable 3D tool for working.
with regards
Jaya

See also
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopextended/tech-specs.html
" * 3D features and some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP."
Time to upgrade your computer.

Using Clone tool in Photoshop CS causes F9 to randomly activate

I'm not sure if this is a Photoshop problem or an OSX problem. I have posted on the Adobe site, but there was only one response and that didn't tell me much. And then I thought: it might actually be an OSX problem.
When using the clone tool in Photoshop CS, after an hour or so, under circumstances that I have not been able to replicate, PS starts to activate F9 on a continuing basis. Sometimes only once (all open windows appear separated); sometimes twice in quick succession; sometimes three or four times. The effect is exactly the same as pressing F9 1, 2, 3 or 4 times every couple of minutes.
I get around the problem by shutting all other windows (then the PS window I'm working in doesn't get changed - I just click on it to bring it back if it has been F9ed); or if the F9s get too annoying I shut down PS and start again.
Is this activation of F9 likely to be:
* a PS bug (somehow it is activating F9)?; or
* an OSX bug (PS does something and OSX triggers F9)?
I have not had the problem occur anytime except cloning in PS. I doubt it has anything to do with Expose (as the PS poster thought) because I do not use Expose.
The problem appears to me to be almost random. It might be in my particular setup, but I suspect that PS and/or OSX are going slightly haywire in a very esoteric way under certain vague circumstances. How's that for a non-specific description of the behaviour

This is an issue seen from time to time with Photoshop. The Photoshop team has said they're going to take another look at it, over on the Photoshop bugfix / feature request forum (http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/_adobe_community_help_keeps_popping_ open).
Not everyone sees this, so take heart, it can work well.
One source of random corruption seen with Photoshop can be from buggy display drivers. OpenGL implementations in display drivers are changing to this very minute.
You can try disabling OpenGL Drawing for a while, do some editing and watch to see if it still happens. You'd do this via Edit - Preference - Performance, and remember to restart Photoshop after making the change and before testing.
Or you can visit the web site of the maker of your video card and download/install their latest drivers. I recommend this, no matter what else you do.
-Noel

About Using Magnetic Lasso Tool In Photoshop CS3 Extended

Hi All
I seem to be having a problem using the Magnetic Lasso Tool In Photoshop CS3 Extended as when I get half way around an egales beak zoomed in at 66.67% and start to single click around the tight corners the photo is covered over with a white background and the palettes to the right of the Photo e.g. layers, channels, paths becomes white to and all you can see is the paths that the Magnetic Lasso Tool has made around the beak until you click any key on the keyboard but the annoying thing about doing that is that the path automatically becomes selected there for I am unable to draw the paths around the rest of the beak does anyone know of a patch of some kind that will correct this error?
Many Thanks For Reading This And May Be Replying To it.
All The Best. Regards,
Oliver
P.S I have downloaded and installed all of the updates for all Adobe and Adobe CS3 Software.

Oliver,
We have the same exact issue here with the Polygonal Lasso tool. Get anywhere from 20-80% around an object and it hiccups once and then locks up for a moment causing you to loose whatever you've been selecting.
Symptoms include toolbars and palettes turning white and screen freezing for a moment.
Is there an official word on this from Adobe? Or better yet, a solution?
Thanks,
George

Problem combining selection tools in Photoshop CC 2014

When I make a selection using the Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop CC and then switch to the Lasso Tool to refine the selection, it just adds to what I already had selected. If I do the same thing in CC 2014, as soon as I click on the photo with the Lasso Tool the original selection disappears.

Look at your selection options in the tool options bar for the lasso tool.
Sounds like cc is set to Add and cc2014 is set to New
You could just keep the option on new and use the shift key to add to the selection.
more info:
Photoshop Help | Selecting with the lasso tools
Photoshop Help | Default keyboard shortcuts

All tools in Photoshop CS5 not moving smoothly (only making dots instead of lines)

All my tools in Photoshop CS5, including the brush, eraser, healing brush, etc. are only making dots, instead of drawing smooth lines. When using the brush tool, for example, if I click down and drag my mouse to draw something, only the initial dot for where I clicked down gets colored in. Does anyone have any ideas as to why?

Does anything jump out to you that could be causing this problem? Also, my lasso tool doesn't work properly as I can't drag anywhere. The move tool also doesn't work properly. I can click down and drag a layer, but after I release my click, the layer moves back to its previous position. The only way to move any layers is by free-transforming them.

Where can I find the equivalent tools in Photoshop that are in the develop module of Lightroom

Friends:
Where can I find the equivalent tools in Photoshop that are in the develop module of Lightroom? For example I would like to use the shadow, clarity, lens correction and such tools but cannot find them in Photoshop.
Thanks amigos
Migs

The obvious or not so obvious first. Depending on your knowledge. When you open a tiff, jpg, or camera' raw format they can be opened in Adobe Camera raw first which has identicle controls to lightroom's develop module.
Starting with I beleive CS5 maybe 4, some of the tools made their way into photoshop it self. Take a look at the camera lens filter, the Image>Adjustment menu or the adjustment layers which now support vibrance for example.

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