Preserved Topic: ImageReady, need to start and can't

I have to tell a student how to start creating an animated Gif.....BUT every time i make a change to a frame it changes all of the frames in the thing......have to hurry I'm on play ground duity........ I know that I should have the book, but I don't ....so can you please help me. Any other tips would also be great, I have never done this before. Am very OK with Photoshop.
Tanks.

MAyb

Not sure I understand the question. You don`t want successive frames updated ?

Why would that be ?

I do NOT want them Updated, we are creating an animation of a students character, we were thinking that we could make the changes to individual frames....is there another way?

Actually we want to create an animation propper......is this the right program, we also have Premier 6 imagemaker 9, and photoshop 6.

uhhh....i also had the same problem.....i didn't really fix it. what you should do is to create a new layer on the frames...and just view the layers you need on the frames...

Yah, when you move from frame to frame in the animation, ImageReady will respect things like whether you moved the contents of the layers, and also the visibility, but if you change the content of the layers (like adjusting brightness, doing a filter, etc...) then it's changed for good, for all the frames of the animation. If you need to do this for your effect, just do as was recommended, and make copies of those layers before you do filter-type things to them. (Don't eliminate the old ones! You need them for the earlier frames, I assume.) I'll frequently do a PSD file with all of the layers of the animation, each to it's own layer, and then just use ImageReady to turn them on and off at the right times, leaving only the background the same on all of them.

Oh, and welcome, BTW! Told you you'd like this place.
Your pal, -doc-



[This message has been edited by DocOzone (edited 02-22-2002).]

THaNKS HEAPS!!!!!!!

I've got it all happening now, great fun. Thanks again.

mayb

PS....very groovy technology guys/gals

Some one else but me said groovy! Weeha!



[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 02-23-2002).]