Animation window in Photoshop

First of all adjust your images in Photoshop so that they are ready to put onto a timeline.  

Open a new file size 720 x 576 dpi

Open your pictures (that you are going to use) and copy them into the file and save.  Do this repeatedly until all your pictures are saved in the new file size.  You want to end up with a minimum of 10 pictures.


Put them in a Folder with the title something like: ‘JULIAN Adjusted Moving stills’.  You can keep this folder on a memory stick.  When it comes to editing them on to a timeline drag the folder onto the desktop.

To edit:

-Open Photoshop

(if the icon is not on the bottom bar then go to – GO – Applications –find Adobe Photoshop CS5 and click on it)

Check that ‘Layers’ window is open.  If it isn’t then go to –

- Window and tick ‘Layers’.

Then Go To:

-file

-scripts

-load files into stack

-choose and open

Now your images are all stacked in a pile (like a pile of photographs stacked on top of each other) and you can see them in the ‘Layers’ window.

Now Go to:

Window

- tick ‘Animation’

On the timeline the first (top in the pile) photograph will appear.

Make a new frame on the time line.

To make the next frame go to the little boxes icon at the bottom of the timeline ‘Duplicates selected frame’.  This will repeat the same frame so go to the ‘Layers’ window and click on the eye icon to reveal the next in the stack.  Keep going until all the pictures you want are on the timeline.

Change timing

Change the timing of each image by clicking on the arrow at the bottom of the image in the timeline and choosing the amount of seconds you want.

When you have finished go to

- File

– Export

– Render Video

PAL DI/DV  720 x 576

name and put folder on desktop

Quicktime Movie

settings 24 (standard) frames per second

Compression type DV-PAL

16:9

render

Now it is on desktop and rendered

Now open iMovie