From Photoshop 2 Motion

Could someone tell my the correct aspct ratio from still pictures being cropped from Adobe PSCS2 to Apple Motion 2.
I had heard 720X480 and 720X554, i want the best picture on my TV, no pixeling just smooth picture. In Motion i am making a slideshow and the best picture is very important. Is saving from PS as .tiff or something else. Thanks again Charles

I have not had much luck with slideshows created in DSP4, they just looked bad. so i was gonna try PS and then Motion. Starting with my digital pictures from Digital camera different sizes but good quality. Now what i had heard is that you have to crop the pictures first in PS to 720X554 and then resize the picture at 720X480, (what does that do anyway?) . At the end of the day Im looking at a basic scrapbook feel. A nice background and some text, music most likely, some animation of some sort and a picture frame where the photos from PS will be in some sort of slide show form. How would a slideshow work exported from iphoto as far as quality, that would save some steps but if i'd get better quality the other way i'd do that. After scrapbook is done in Motion i was gonna export using the animation, millions of colors and set to best. This scrapbook slideshow will be then added to a DVD through DSP4 and encoded and burned to disc with the rest of my regular video already in DSP4. Sorry about the long drown out explaination.

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So far, I've worked out how to apply motion to a symbol through basic tweens, and then I can draw out a line using the pencil tool and apply that to the tween so it follows the pencil line instead of just going from point A to point B. The problem is, this looks awful...I'm not good enough with a mouse to create absolutely perfect shapes freehand, so I just want to be able to use the Photoshop path as my motion guide instead of having to make another one from scratch.
I've looked around for various importing methods, the most success I've had is exporting the paths to an Illustrator file, and then importing the Illustrator file into Flash directly. However, I have NO idea where these paths go when they're imported, or how to access them. If I import them to the stage, they seemingly disappear before I've even seen them, and if I import them to the library they just aren't there.
I could also do with a brief description of how paths work in Flash - I'm familiar with the Photoshop layout, what with the paths appearing in a panel next to the layers one (makes perfect sense to me, as you can just switch between the two panels to view whatever you want). I just don't understand how they work in Flash and what I should be looking for....
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I had a play around with some variations of this. What I can't grasp is why Flash won't recognise my shape layer as a motion path. I've tried breaking it down, that doesn't work... I traced it narrowly in Photoshop and imported it as a thin line with a gap (so essentially a line with two ends), and it comes into Flash as a bitmap or something of that sort. I found an option that traces the bitmap, and appears to convert it into a shape layer...I've managed to find the optimal settings so the line is joined all the way through apart from the start and end points. The only thing is, Flash seems to not even notice this as a guide layer when I apply it to the symbol I'm trying to animate. It just doesn't even notice it's there. The object moves straight from point A to point B in a straight line, the guide layer does nothing to adjust the motion... Is it not possible for the traced line to act as a motion guide? It's a shape, it is a single line with a start point and an end point, and there are no other instances of anything else in the layer - just the line and nothing else.
This seems way more difficult than it should be...I'm sure Adobe could have integrated a MUCH easier system for importing paths from Photoshop that actually exist in Flash rather than disappearing into some abyss instead!
Here is a screenshot of what I'm working with: http://gyazo.com/4c1046767e1ee8bf99f65751b9ba81b8
The long black oval is the shape I'm trying to animate. I've tried applying tweens to it while it's in shape form and while it's in every different symbol form, all to no avail.
The black line is what I'm trying to use as the guide. Having looked online, people seem to be able to just use the "paste in place" option and it somehow knows exactly what they mean and animates around the line perfectly. I tried that and it didn't work (no surprise there), and then I tried the motion guide layer setup and it also didn't work. I'm not sure if tracing a bitmap into a shape layer somehow removes any possibility of the line being recognisable as a line or something...could that be the case?
Is there a simple way to turn a shape layer (in this case the black line) into a motion guide that I'm missing? I thought just turning the layer into a guide layer would do the trick, but obviously not :/

Problems printing from photoshop CS4 with epson R2880

I just purchased an epson stylus photo R2880, I thought it was broken due to the fact that I could
not make prints from photoshopCS4.... it goes through all the motions and when its time to print, the soft ware just stops and nothing happens, no warning window, nothing, just no print, I have been three days with epson support by telephone and we have gone through every possible scenario. I have repaired permissions, I have repaired the disks, I have reinstalled all drivers and I can print
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Is it possible to import an image w/ transparent background from photoshop?

Hello,
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Thanks for your time.

hi again,
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I have the same issue when trying to Browse in Bridge from Photoshop CC 2014. When I click "Browse in Bridge" in Photoshop CC 2014, the Creative Cloud desktop client window opens up and asks "Are you sure you want to install this version of Bridge"?
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I'm on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
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Hey community! I found a few similar posts, but couldn't find much of a resolution.
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> via the gif animation import
There is no such feature in DW. DW knows nothing about GIF
images other than
the fact that they are images. I'm guessing that you did not
properly
export the animated GIF from Photoshop. When you open that
image in the
browser, does it animate?
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