Question on making animated photos on Adobe photoshop...?

Best Answer - Chosen by VotersYou've got part of the idea. What you need to do is to make all those individual photos into one photo, with each one on its own layer. So you can do this several different ways. Probably the easiest is if all your images are the same size, start with a new file, set to the same size and resolution as the ones you've created (I'm suggesting this so you will still have all your originals when done). Now once you have done that, you can open all the images you want to use. For each image, make sure that you've merged the layers (you may want to merge/flatten the layers and do a save as and call it something like "[image name] flat"). Once you do that, hit CTRL+A if you are on a PC or Command +A (Apple key +A) to do a Select All. Now with the move tool, drag the image onto the new document you created. Do this with each one. You will now have 10 layers (plus the background you started with when you created the new document). You can rearrange the layers by dragging in the layers palette if you want to.
To animate your images, go to Window>Animation. This will bring up the Animation palette. This is actually an updated version of what use to be ImageReady, which was a separate application that came with Photoshop in CS and CS2. Now it's all part of Photoshop.
In the Animation palette are options to add frames. You create the frames from your layers in the Photoshop file, by turning on and off the different layers that you want (I'm not looking at CS3 right now so I can't tell you all the details, but check the Help menu for more info). You can rearrange the frames in the Animation Palette, change the timing for each one (how long it is visible) and you can Tween, which is adding transitional frames between each frame if you want, within the Animation Palette.
When you are done setting these up, you save out for Web, decide the .gif color range (you will be simplifying the number of colors), and a few other options (a window opens when you save for web). What you have done is to create an animated .gif file from the Photoshop file. You can test it by opening your browser and then dragging the .gif file onto it and watch how it plays. If you need to make adjustments you can reopen the file and change the timing, the number of Tween frames and so on.
I know this information isn't quite complete, but hopefully it will give you enough to get going with what you want to do.1 month ago
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