Working With Layers In Animations - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual

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Creating Animations (ImageReady)
7 Enter a value, or use the Up or Down Arrow
key to choose the number of frames to add.
(This option is not available if you selected more
than two frames. In this case, the tweening
operation alters the existing frames between the
first and last frames in the selection.)
Click OK.
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Specifying looping
You select a looping option to specify how
many times the animation sequence repeats
when played.
To specify looping:
Click the looping option selection box at the
1
lower left corner of the Animation palette.
Select a looping option: Once, Forever,
2
or Other.
If you selected Other, enter a value in the Set
3
Loop Count dialog box, and click OK.
Specifying delay for frames
You can specify a delay—the time that a frame is
displayed—for single frames or for multiple
frames in an animation. Delay time is displayed in
seconds. Fractions of a second are displayed as
decimal values. For example, one-quarter second
is specified as .25.
To specify a delay time:
1 Select one or more frames.
In the Animation palette, click on the Delay
2
value below the selected frame to view the Delay
pop-up menu.
3 Specify the delay:
Choose a value from the pop-up menu. (The last
•
value used appears at the bottom of the menu.)
Choose Other, enter a value in the Set Frame
•
Delay dialog box, and click OK.
If you selected multiple frames, specifying a delay
value for one frame applies the value to all frames.
Note: Delay time may not be accurate during an
animation preview in ImageReady. For an
accurate preview of delay time, preview animations
in a browser.
Working with layers in
animations
Working with layers is the key to creating anima-
tions in ImageReady. Each new frame starts out as
a duplicate of the preceding frame—you edit the
frame by adjusting its layers. You can apply layer
changes to a single frame, a group of frames, or the
entire animation.
Using layers to edit frames
The information in this section applies to rollover
states as well as to animation frames.
When you work with layers in a frame, you can
create or copy selections in the layer; adjust color
and tone; change the layer's opacity, blending
mode, or position; add layer effects; and perform
editing tasks as you would with layers in any
image. Using layer attributes to create animation
effects is very simple, and it allows you to save an
animation file in Photoshop format for later
reediting.