Problem with .gif frames not disappearing
Hi-
I'm pretty new to photoshop. Lately I've been messing around with editing and gifs and have been sporadic success achieving what I set out to do. I'm looking for help with a fairly specific problem that seems to pop up again and again. The problem is that when I attempt to make gifs. with a transparent background, the gif frames do not disappear properly once the file is moved out of photoshop.
For example: I came across the following .gif yesterday and decided that I want to try to edit for a surreal effect.
http://imgur.com/NJlpA.gif (I hope that link works)
I wanted to cut out the beginning of the animation where the man is on the motorcycle and make it so that the man just rolls back and forth on the ground (weird I know).
I successfully deleted the frames that I no longer wanted and duplicated the frames of animation that I wanted to play again so that the image would loop seamlessly. I then went through frame by frame, and corresponding layer by layer, to remove the white background. I used the quickwand tool. It took a long time but the gif was playing in photoshop as I wanted i to, a man writhing back and forth on the ground for no apparent reason. Siiiiiiick.
So I did the whole save for web and devices thing, saved it as a .gif and then I put it on the interwebs and it turned out I had created this monstrosity:
http://imgur.com/60CHc.gif
Please, please, please, someone tell what I'm doing wrong. I feel like I've done the exact same proceedure to other gifs and have had them turn out perfectly. What am I missing??? Please note that the problem isn't that I accidentally made layers active for frames I didn't want them active for. I checked.
Okay, thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to offer some advice.
Sean
Hello, and thanks for the timely response-
Unfortunately, I only had a save of the "finished" version of the gif which now includes the unwanted frames. However, I went back and followed the same process, made a shorter version of the gif (which suffers from the same problem), and took a screenshot of that.
http://imgur.com/8e8g1.png
Also included is the preview screen which shows some of the settings that were in use (could be helpful?).
http://imgur.com/8e8g1&bOThel
And, finally, the shorter, still defective, gif.
http://imgur.com/Ggnw7
Thanks,
Sean
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