Creating frame animations

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why can't you keep to one topic per page? I've gone to three or four pages trying to find out where the animation panel even is, and now I've lost track of what I'm doing. Adobe sucks at teaching

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Missing Create Frame Animation option

I want to create an animation, but have always been missing the "create frame animation" option from the timeline panel .
Would appreciate any help. Please note that I am not a pro at photoshop!

When I play the animation it just shows the same image throughout the entire sequence eventhough there is a different image on each layer.

How do i create an animation with one frame for each layer?

I have 76 sequential images that i've loaded as layers using bridge, then aligned using photoshop.
I would now like to create a 76 frame animation with one animation frame for each layer
(the layers are in sequential order).
is there an easy way to do this
or do i have to create 76 frames (can duplicate multiple to speed it up)
then set layer visibility for each frame?
thanks
bill w
astro.whwiii.net

thanks for all the replies
got it
here's a rough draft of 2 hours of sunshine
http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/big/31-05-2014-prom-animation.gif
-bill w
astro.whwiii.net

In the Animation Timeline panel menu "create frames from layers" is not showing.

I am watching a tutorial on basic animation and when it gets to the point where they say to open the "Animation Timeline Panel Menu" the panel that opens for me is not the same one in the tutorial. I am supposed to click on "create frames from layers" but that is not an option. I'm confused as to why my panel is not the same as the one in the tutorial.

It could be that you are using a different version of photoshop. Some of the older versions were split into two versions a standard version and an extended version, in most of those versions, it was required to have the extended version to use video editing features.
Perhaps you could tell us what version of photoshop you have and what operating system.

How to create an animated gif with CS4?

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Just trying to create simple animated gif as temporary portfolio. Would also like to click on a different link for each image as it rotates if that's possible but main thing is just to create the gif.
Thanks so much in advance!

For the first part of your question
File > Open, then at the bottom of the dialog Tick the open to Open As Animation.
Then browse/select multiple images, then Open.
This will automatically add each image to a State (Window > State, previously called Frames).
Then adjust the Frame Rate of each State. The default is 7th/100 (a sec). You should see the number 7 to the right of each State. Double click to adjust as desired. 100 = 1 second, 200 = 2 seconds and so on.
Once the animation is configured, go File > Save As > Animated Gif.
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Newbie trying to create an Animated GIF

I'm a newbie working with FW-CS3 on a Vista environment.
I have two images (equal size) from which I want to create an
animated gif,
whereby they rotate intermittently in an endless loop (i.e.
image A displays
and then fades into image B, which after a while fades back
to image A)
What is the easiest way to create this in FW-CS3? Is there
any kind of a
wizard (or tutorial) to accomplish this?

ClueLess wrote:
> What is the easiest way to create this in FW-CS3? Is
there any kind of a
> wizard (or tutorial) to accomplish this?
It's better to do this kind of animation in Flash because the
resulting
file size will be much smaller. If you have to do it in
Fireworks,
then use the animation wizard to fade image one out in ten
frames. Place
copies of the second image on frames 5 through 10 so that it
is fully
revealed by the time image 1 finishes fading out. On frame
11, begin
fading image two out, and on frame 5 of the second image
fade, place a
copy of the first image and repeat. It sounds complicated,
but if you
try it a couple of times, you'll get it.
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Flash app that allows users to create mini animations

Hi,
I am fairly new to flash, and was wondering if the community could point me in the right direction for my current project.
I am looking to build an app that allows end users to draw and save mini animations (simple predetermined shapes that move in 2D). So far I have a written a app that allows the user to draw a single frame using simple shapes and lines, but I am having some small troubles at this stage, and have not attempted to allow the user to animate or save the drawing.
If anyone knows of a tutorial or some other resource to put me on the right path I would be very grateful. I can also share what I have if anyone would be willing to give me some pointers (I am going to assume that as a newbie, my code could use a lot of improvement).
Regards,
Robbie Vos

Hi Andei1,
Thanks for the input. I figured that the save functionality would be a little difficult.
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Robbie Vos

Can't create frames from layers CS6

I have looked at multiple tutorials saying that to create an animated gif in Photoshop CS6, you just open the Timeline palette and select "Create Frames from Layers" from the dropdown. I don't see this option, not even grayed out. What is the problem?

Thanks - didn't realize it was even a button. Thought picking it from the dropdown was enough. O_o

I need to create an animation sequence in photoshop cs6 longer than 5 seconds

I need to create an animation sequence in photoshop cs6 longer than 5 seconds. please help.

What problem are you having that should be easy just create the layer to make frames with. Create a frame animation in the timeline panel. Create the frames and set their display time. Save an animated gif for the web ie "Save For Web"
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In the Edit workspace, place the images you want to appear in each frame of the animation on separate layers of the Layers panel. For example, to create an animation of an eye blinking, you would place an image of the open eye on one layer, and an image of the closed eye on another layer.
Choose File > Save for Web.Note: If your image has multiple layers, you can also open the Save For Web dialog box from the Save As dialog box by choosing CompuServe GIF Format and selecting Layers As Frames.
Optimize the image in GIF format.
Select Animate.
Set additional options in the Animation section of the dialog box:
Loop Continuously repeats the animation in a web browser.
Frame Delay Specifies the number of seconds that each frame is displayed in a web browser. Use a decimal value to specify fractions of a second. For example, use .5 to specify half a second.

Motion Tweening in Frame Animation (photoshop cs6)?

Hello, adobe community. I am new to the program Photoshop cs6 and just started using it this week. I have an animation project due tomorrow and noticed something while I was working. Is it possible to tween your drawings between frames in frame animation? I have seen it demonstrated a few times in the video timeline, but not in the frame animation option. I am using a video layer to create my project, so it is not separated into individual frames. If there is an option to do so, can someone please tell me how it's done? Thank you.

Yes you can. Create two frames, select both then choose tweening icon at the bottom of the animation panel. Left of the new icon looks like several sphere's. The more frames created, the smoother the tweening and the longer the animation.

Frame-by-frame animation by adobe

I am trying to do the tutorial about learning flash by Jen
deHaan:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/flash/articles/flacs3it_firstflash_pt1.html)
I am not sure how to go further when I reach step 4 in
Creating a frame-by-frame animation since I cannot press F8 on my
Mac to convert it into another new movie clip symbol.
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/flash/articles/flacs3it_firstflash_pt2_04.html
What do I click to make the changes in steps 4 -14.

There's also the drop down menu.
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Trouble creating an animated gif in Photoshop

Hello. I am having trouble creating a gif in Photoshop (using still images). I get as far as the step where you click the dropdown menu on the top right of the timeline screen (following multiple online tutorials) and don't see the option to "create new layer for each new frame". I get completely different options and none of them seem to be right. I am using Photoshop CC 2014 and am completely udated. Can anyone HELP?
Here is an example of a tutorial I followed (many say the same thing)
I get stuck at step 5:
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-create-animated-gif-quick-tip-ht
Here is a screenshot of what I see, Argh!!!
Can anyone help? Thank you in advance!

With a document open in Photoshop CC 2014 use menu Window>Timeline to display the Timeline palette. In it you will see a button with a pull-down menu in the center. The button can create a Frame Animation timeline or a Video Timeline. You want to create an Frame animation. The Palette also has a fly-out menu opened by clicking the little down pointing triangle in its upper right corner. There are some useful options in it. For example you can create two frames from some layers you have then have Photoshop create frames between them using the tween option. Then save out a PSD, a Animated Gif and render a MP4.
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Creating psd animation

I imported "Image Sequence" inPS then created the sequence and adjusted the layers and timeline.
Two questions:
1) How do I revert all the frames (the are in the wrong order)
2) from the file in Photoshop format but I can't figure out how to save as Animated Gif ? which is the end result I am going for...

npqster wrote:
I imported "Image Sequence" inPS then created the sequence and adjusted the layers and timeline.
Two questions:
1) How do I revert all the frames (the are in the wrong order)
2) from the file in Photoshop format but I can't figure out how to save as Animated Gif ? which is the end result I am going for...
1. You change the order in the layers palette. Gifs are played layer by layer so you'll be reversing the order of your layers. (Assuming layer 1 is your bottom layer, layer 1 is the first frame of your gif.)
2. You use Save For Web. See this tutorial:
http://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-Animated-Gif-in-Adobe-Photoshop-Elements
There should also be a check box for look if you want the gif to loop forever.
Note: In Elements you can't set the timing between frames. You have to use layers to do that. (Adding a duplicate of a layer makes it slower...another duplicate slower still.)
Edit: If I recall correctly, you can set a delay between animation cycles...just not frame by frame delays.

Can't convert timeline to frame animation

Whenever I try to upload a video clip, it only shows in timeline format and when I try to convert it to frame animation, it says "The video will not play back in frame animation." Help, please

I do not do video but have an idea if the video segments you want to make a frame animation is less then 500 frames. If larger split it into 500 frame segments and render the segments to video files. Then use menu File>Import>Video Frames to Layers.
That way you can get the frames. Converting video to frame animation seems to create a single frame for each video segment...

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