Havok Stan

I could just do the easy thing and go and read the boring bullshit "Help" documents, but I figure it'd just be better getting info from real people who can answer my basic questions...

First of all, how the HELL do I make animations?! This part is annoying me...

orange monkeyee

it takes time my friend, i still don't know how to do more than photoshop shit around . even then I still am a newbie.

MoNoXiDe_XXX

Photoshop does animations?
Who knew

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gallopingwanker

use imageready for .gif animations

enigmaticnull

imageready CS can also use vector layers to support little flash animations as well.

its under the file/export menu, very handy.

i love photoshop, and it just keeps getting better!

MexicanOnABike

yep... u can do some pretty cool shit with photoshop/imageready.
i'll post my last work in a few days if someone wants to see it.

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GoldenOuroboros

Wow.. I'm in agreeance with Monoxide.. and everyone else that said to use imageready..

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yakimushi

Yeah, Imageready.

But how to use Imageready...? LOL

You can start in Photoshop and create the frames for the animation in there. Use lots of layers, but its ok to have one layer for a background or something. If something moves, you're going to need more than one layer to show that movement.

Once you've got all the layers set up, import your work into Imageready (bottom button on the toolbar, looks like a couple boxes with an arrow).

Once in Imageready you should see the animation tab at the bottom. If not, just select it under the window menu.

There will be one frame displaying all your layers. Turn off the layers you don't want displayed in the first frame. Then click the new frame icon (it looks like the new layer icon) in the animation tab. Frame two will be a copy of frame one. Reselect all the layers you want for frame two... and so on and so forth.

If you click underneath each frame where it says "0 sec." it'll bring up a menu and you can choose the timing for each frame.

Thats about it, when you save it, make sure you choose "Save Optimized As" and fiddle with the settings until you find the best compromise between quality and size.

Have fun!

Havok Stan

Holy damn, sweet! Thanks for the help. That's amazingly helpful. Another question: I see that some people can do certain things such as: Edit out a person but keep the background so that it looks as though it was always there... Can someone help me out, here?

yakimushi

This is a short answer: Rubber stamp brush and healing brush.

Then all it takes is a lot of practice. When in school I had an exercise that was to take an old photograph (scratched, ripped, bent, discolored, dust spots, etc) and digitally restore it back to new.

Another technique involving layers would be to take a section of the image that resembles what you're trying to remove, put it on a new layer, move/transform/mirror/etc and then use layer blending properties like overlay or soft light to blend it back onto the layer underneath it. This technique is used in conjuction with the rubber stamp.

If you look here: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~aarp/portf...al/2d_023.html at the grafitti on the wall, those were two pictures I had taken. Then using the above technique I put the grafitti on the wall with layer blending and some stamping.

Have fun!

Havok Stan

Thank you sooo much! That's amazing... Thank you thank you thank you thank you!