Opening And Importing Files As Animations; To Open Animated Gifs (Imageready); To Open A Multilayer Photoshop File As Frames; To Import A Folder Of Files As Frames (Imageready) - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

Opening and importing files as animations

To open animated GIFs (ImageReady)

You can open an existing animated GIF in ImageReady. After you open the file, you can switch to Photoshop to edit
the file.
Choose File > Open.
The file opens as a stack of layers. Each layer corresponds to one frame. In each frame, the layer for that frame is
visible, and the layers for the other frames are hidden.
Opening existing animated GIF files is useful primarily for applying optimization settings to the files. The one-layer-
per-frame structure of imported animated GIF files may make it impractical to edit animation frames in other ways.

To open a multilayer Photoshop file as frames

You can easily create animated GIFs from existing multilayer Photoshop files. The content of each layer becomes a
frame in the Animation palette. The layers are placed in the Animation palette in their stacking order, with the
bottom layer becoming the first frame.
Choose File > Open, and select the Photoshop file to open.
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2 Choose Make Frames From Layers from the Animation palette menu.
Each layer in the image appears as a frame in the Animation palette. The bottom layer in the Photoshop image is
Frame 1 in the Animation palette.
Choose Reverse Frames from the Animation palette menu to reverse the order of frames.

To import a folder of files as frames (ImageReady)

You can import a folder of files and use each file as a frame. Files can be in any format that Photoshop supports. Each
file becomes a frame in the Animation palette. The files are placed in the Animation palette in alphabetical order by
image file name.
Place the files to be used as frames into a folder. Make sure that the folder contains only those images that are to
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be used as frames. The resulting animation will be more successful if all files have the same pixel dimensions.
To have frames appear in the correct order in the animation, name the files in alphabetical or numeric order, with
the file to be used as Frame 1 the first in order. (You can also change the order of the frames in the Animation palette
after you import the files.)
Choose File > Import > Folder As Frames, and choose the folder to be imported.
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The files appear in the Animation palette as frames and in the Layers palette as layers, with each layer assigned to a
separate frame. The image that is first alphabetically or numerically by file name is Frame 1 in the Animation palette
and the bottom layer in the Layers palette.
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