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Which product to use to build a "flip book" type of effect?

Oct 10, 2011 12:26 PM

I have 67 digital photos of the same view with slight differences between them. I wish to build one file that I can export to create what looks like one of those old-fashioned "flip books"  or old moving picture (jittery motion).

 

I used to be able to do this in Adobe ImageReady by importing the photos as frames and tweening them.

 

I'm new to CS5 and have been looking all over the place for the right application to use with no luck.

 

Which one do I use???

 

Please be specific as I've looked into Fireworks and Flash but neither or those seems to allow me to import a folder of files and put them on layers.

 

Thanks in advance for any help offered.

1193 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: Jacob Bugge, Oct 11, 2011 9:28 AM
 
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  • Jacob Bugge
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    1. Jacob Bugge,
    Oct 10, 2011 2:43 PM   in reply to tis_herself
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    yourself,

     

    You may have a look at Animation in Photoshop, starting with the Index of the Helpfile (formerly known as The Fine Manual). That should bring you through the basis and further on to the use.

     

    There may be something in Dreamweaver, too; I am still with GoLive which does have animation options.

     
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    2. Nancy O.,
    Oct 10, 2011 2:44 PM   in reply to tis_herself
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    I think what you want is an animated.gif.  And you can do that in Photoshop.

    http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Animated-GIFs-Using-Photoshop-CS3

     

     

     

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    3. Nancy O.,
    Oct 10, 2011 2:53 PM   in reply to Jacob Bugge
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    There may be something in Dreamweaver, too...    

    Older versions of DW had Timelines with which you could animate Layers but it wasn't very web friendly.  Adobe saw fit to remove Timelines starting with CS3, I think. 

     

     

     

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    4. tis_herself,
    Oct 10, 2011 3:44 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Nancy O: Thanks for the good suggestion. In this case, however, the image is large (900 pixels wide) and color is important so a gif wouldn't work. I'll keep it in mind for smaller files, however!

     
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    5. tis_herself,
    Oct 10, 2011 3:45 PM   in reply to Jacob Bugge
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    Thank you Jacob! I hadn't realized that PShop can now do this. The process if what I was used to in ImageReady so it would appear that this function was integrated directly into PShop, which is great!!

     
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    Oct 11, 2011 9:28 AM   in reply to tis_herself
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    You are welcome, yourself.

     
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