Chapter 18

Working with Animation, Video, & Photography

Chapter Lessons

• Create and play basic animation• Add tweening and frame delay• Modify video in Photoshop• Use Camera Raw features

Create and Play Basic Animation

• Animation is a series of still images displayed rapidly

• Animation panel displays a thumbnail of the animation image in each frame

• Frame:– Individual image used in animation

Creating an Animation

• Place images on layers in the image• Hide all but one layer• Duplicate the frame• Turn off the displayed layer• Turn on the layer you want to see

Animation Example

When frame 2 is selected the

woman appearsWhen frame 1 is selected the man

appears

Animation Tools

Add Tweening and Frame Delay

• Tweening adds frames that change action in an animation in slight increments from one frame to the next

• To add tweening to a frame:– Click the Tween… button– Enter the number of in-between frames required

Tweening Example

• Man morphing into woman

Two-frame animation after

tween frames are added

Setting Frame Delays

• Length of time the frame appears• Click the Selects frame delay time list arrow to

set the delay time in whole or partial seconds• Set the frame delay for:

– Each frame– Several frames at once

Add Tweening and Frame Delay

• Tweening adds frames that change action in an animation in slight increments from one frame to the next

• To add tweening to a frame:– Click the Tween… button– Enter the number of in-between frames required

Modify Video in Photoshop

• Modify video• Apply adjustment layer(s)• Play video using timeline in Timeline panel

Modify Video in Photoshop

Camera Raw Dialog Box

Edits to Raw File

• Icon indicates edits to Raw file