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Jockomo
10-14-2006, 05:05 PM
is it possible to do traditional cell style animation in photoshop?

So far it seems like I have to make a layer for each frame, and then make a coresponding frame in the animation pallet, then set the layer visibility for each frame manually.

It seems like alot of work just to get set up, is there an easier way?

I also could swear I remember seeing an onion skin option in the animation pallet but can't find it now.

-also... is it impossible to edit more than one layer at a time? I can select many layers at once, and I have a copy of the same image in all layers, I would like to erase the same part in all layers at the same time.

Basically I am trying to animate a graphic, similar to animating a signature. I want to copy the final frame to all frames and erase a bit of it at a time, thus rather than having to erase the same part over and over for each frame, if I could select all frames, and erase a bit, deselect a frame, erase a bit more, etc... it would be alot easier.

I'm using photoshop CS2 btw.

thanks.
nutjob
10-16-2006, 02:28 AM
I dunno about the onion skin feature. There is something they call "tween" it's on the bottom of the animation pop up, it should look like a bunch of boxes stacked on top of each other. Here's how it works, go over to your layer pop up, and set the opacity at say 50%, now go back to the animation pop up and click the tween button (to the right of Fast Forward), a window will come up, first with thing you see is a drop down that says "tween with: previous frame" (we'll keep that for now).

Set your frame number, and it will adjust the opacity for all the inbetween frames.

Mess around with it to get the hang of it, it isn't too difficult.

-J
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