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Adobe Photoshop Help
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Saving animations as QuickTime movies
You can save an animation as a QuickTime movie. The resulting file is viewable in the
QuickTime player and can be opened in other applications that support QuickTime movie
format.
To save an animation as a QuickTime movie:
1 Choose File > Export Original.
2 Select QuickTime Movie from the format pop-up menu.
Note: On Windows, QuickTime Movie format is only available when QuickTime is installed
on your computer.
3 Type a filename, and choose a location for the file.
4 Click Save.
5 If desired, adjust the compression settings, and click OK.
Opening and importing files as animations
You can use the animation features in ImageReady to edit animated GIFs, multilayered
Photoshop files, and QuickTime movies.
Opening animated GIFs
You can open an existing animated GIF in ImageReady using the File > Open command.
The file is opened 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 in ImageReady is useful primarily for applying optimi-
zation 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.
Opening Photoshop files as animations
You can easily create animated GIFs from existing one-layer-per-frame images in Adobe
Photoshop file format or from a group of single-layer images.
You can make each layer in a multilayer Photoshop file a separate 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.
You can also import a folder of files and use each file as a frame in ImageReady. Files can
be in any format that ImageReady supports. Each file becomes a frame in the Animation
palette. The files are placed in the Animation palette in alphabetical order by image
filename.
To open a multilayer Photoshop file as frames:
1 Choose File > Open, and select the Photoshop file to open.
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.
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