13 Replies Latest reply: Apr 17, 2010 9:57 PM by Terri_F RSS

    Help with image ready on ps3 extended

    tan7281 Community Member

      I am pretty new to photo shop and have cs3 extended.

      I have a Yorkie website where I cut out my Yorkies and paste them to differnet backgrounds.... a lady that does the ANIMATED pictures  HAS DID A COUPLE FOR ME ....BUT I NEED TO LEARN TO DO THIS MYSELF.  She will not tell folks how to do:)

      The problem is once you work with a pic that is animated already then try to  add a dog.....by pasting....it removes the animation in the background pic.... and the picture no longer moves once the dog is added ?....She said she puts thru IMAGE READY...which I do not see anywhere on CS3 extended.  I will try to insert a pic she did for me and any help would be greatly appreciated....as I can do but then the picture is no longer animated once altered in my photoshop but she is doing somehow.....so has to be poss ?  If I were to do this pic it would stop moving once the dogs were added....plus not as good as her but practicing........could it be the fact she is doing in layers and I am doing copy and paste...I do know she puts thru Image ready and I do not know where this is located on cs3 extended or how to do?

       

       

       

       

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        • 2. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
          Terri_F Community Member

          You can't find Image Ready because it has been incorporated into Photoshop.  Photoshop CS2 was the last version that included Image Ready. In CS3 Extended, look under Window<Animation. You can either use the new timeline or the older Image Ready frame sequence style.

           

          http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/10.0/help.html?content=WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41 001031ab64-746e.html

           

          Google video search on the subject:

           

          http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&hs=3Ke&tbo=p&rls=en&tbs=vid%3A1&q=CS3+exte nded+animation&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g-m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

           

           

          http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-cs3/video-tutorials/cs3-frame-timeline-animation .html

          • 3. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
            tan7281 Community Member

            Thank you for your answer....but a bit confused?....as I am not trying to animate the picture.  I am chosing a picture that is already animated, then adding the dog to the picture.  Then saving as web device...but it does distory any animaiton with the orig background picture.  There was another post I read that did say from a Tech...that cs3 will not let you open and save a pic that is already animated?...that you have to have Adobe fireworks?...

            Just really confused as are you saying I have to put the picture back thru the animation after I have added the dogs?...as honstly do not know the orig animation of the pic or how to set back?....but again new to photoshop and any help would be greatly appreciated.

            Thank you~

            • 4. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
              Zeno Bokor CommunityMVP

              To open an animated GIF you have to use File->Import->Video Frames to Layers, in the File Name field add a * and press enter to see all the files

              • 5. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
                tan7281 Community Member

                Hello,

                Thank you for the link...If I read correctly...a response from a tech with photoshopcs3 extended....YOU CANNOT OPEN A PICTURE THAT IS ALREADY ANIMATED ( WHICH I AM CHOSING FROM PHOTO BUCKET ETC)......then I am adding the dogs...in doing this I am losing the animation of the background picture that I pasted the dogs to>...other replys were to go to animation...but I am not trying to animated a picture ..I am working with a picture that is already animated then losing that after working with?...so am I reading correctly in that link that you need adobe Fireworks?....just really confused and just want my picutes to still move and be animated afer working with them when that was to start with?...any help with Image Ready for with cs3 extended would be great.  Do not know why cs2 would have built in and sounds sooooooooo much eaiser...is this the case with cs2 that I could just run the picture back thru image ready?.....and done?...if that is the case can that version still be purchased as this is mainly what I use photoshop for is my Yorkie website and pictures?...ANy advise would be greatly appreciated at this point have spent tons of time and cannot figure out?       

                • 6. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
                  tan7281 Community Member

                  ok got that part and thank you soooooooooo much...but once I cut out the dogs and paste them to the picture...will it not distory the orig animation?...or what do I put back thru ect..to have my picture animate after finished with dogs pasted?...

                  The lady that does the pictures must have cs2...as she is always talking about putting back thru image ready to make move after adding dogs :)...and will not share with others how she is doing:)

                   

                  I am soooooooooooooooo novice...would the old version cs2 be easier when working with what I am trying to do?...and if so can it still be purchased as this is mainly what I use photoshop for in my Yorkie website and alot is over my head:)...even though do do my own website...again thank you for reply....but driving me nuts and have worked on forever!...when all I am doing is pasting dogs to an animated pic then losing the animation?.. 

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                  To open an animated GIF you have to use File->Import->Video Frames to Layers, in the File Name field add a * and press enter to see all the files

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                  • 7. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
                    Zeno Bokor CommunityMVP

                    You might want to check out some tutorials about making animations using Photoshop, it should make modifying existing animations much easier. Here's one: http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/build-animated-gifs-in-photoshop/

                    • 8. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
                      Terri_F Community Member

                      Once the animation is imported using File<Import<Video Frames as Layers, open your layers palette if it isn't already. Paste (drop) your dog onto the top layer. Use free transform to resize dog if needed.  If you run the animation at this point, the dog is in each frame. (Window<Animation) If you don't want the dog in each frame, you toggle off the dog layer(s) in the layers palette for each frame you don't want it in. To do this, click on each animated frame and toggle off dog layer(s). Do this for each frame you don't want the dog.

                       

                      Edit: I'm under the assumption that the dog has been selected off it's background.

                       

                      To export, you have two choices. For a .gif, go to File<Save for Web and Devices. Select GIF...adjust any other settings how you'd like. Set the looping option as your preference Once,Forever, or Other. Before doing this, you might hit the play button to double check what you have made.

                       

                      To export as a .mov, avi, etc, File<Export<Render Video

                      • 9. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
                        tan7281 Community Member

                        You are so helpful as this can drive you nuts:) as new to this,,,,and not fully comfortable with working with the layers yet....cant seen to open the layers palette?....I know simple...but when I open a new pic the other pic disappears over in the layers palette?.. I even tried opening file-then script to open  all the pictures I was working with...and did open over in the layers palette and show each picture but would not allow me to click on one to open in the workspace....had to go back to file and reopen the single pic, then minimize it....go back to file, open...then open the dog,,,erase the background, then copy it,,,then maximize from bottom of workspace my original picture and , then freeform , then paste,,,,,so very new and having problems working with the layers and keeping them over to the right....then not sure how to drag or drop the pic into the other?.....if could get that think I could def do the advise you gave me in last email and put the dog on the top layer?...thank you in advance:)  I will keep working with ....:)

                         

                        Tanoe     

                         

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                        Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:16:38 -0600

                        From: forums@adobe.com

                        To: tanoozie@msn.com

                        Subject: Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended

                         

                         

                        Once the animation is imported using File<Import<Video Frames as Layers, open your layers palette if it isn't already. Paste (drop) your dog onto the top layer. Use free transform to resize dog if needed.  If you run the animation at this point, the dog is in each frame. If you don't want the dog in each frame, you toggle off the dog layer(s) in the layers palette for each frame you don't want it in. To do this, click on each animated frame and toggle off dog layer(s). Do this for each frame you don't want the dog.

                         

                        To export, you have two choices. For a .gif, go to File<Save for Web and Devices. Select GIF...adjust any other settings how you'd like. Set the looping option as your preference Once,Forever, or Other. Before doing this, you might hit the play button to double check what you have made.

                         

                        To export as a .mov, avi, etc, File<Export<Render Video

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                        • 10. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
                          Terri_F Community Member

                          I'm not sure anyone mentioned this but if not to open GIFs using the import you have to enter the GIF name as GIF isn't listed as one of the options.

                           

                          It sounds like you are viewing the images in a maximized screen mode. To view more than one document, press F to cycle through the screen modes. FYI, only the contents of the currently selected document can be viewed in the layers palette.

                           

                          I'll just talk about copy/paste so as not to confuse...

                           

                          If you are going to copy/paste, click the frame around the dog document to target it. Your layers palette will now contain the contents of the dog document. Click on the layer in the layers palette with the selected dog over transparency. With that layer highlighted in your layers palette, press Ctrl A; then Ctrl C. (Select<Select All; Edit<copy if you prefer using the menu.) This will copy that layer into your clipboard.

                           

                          Next, click the frame of the document containing the animation. Click the topmost layer in the layers palette because we want you dog to be in the top layer. Press Ctrl + V. (Edit<Paste if you prefer using the menu).

                           

                          Your dog is most likely going to be too big. Use Edit<Free Transform to size and move the dog to the desired location.

                           

                          At this point, your dog should be showing in each frame in the animation palette.

                           

                          Example:

                           

                           

                          with-palettes-open.jpg

                           

                          I'm using the older Image Ready me method. The highlighted place in the palette is where you switch methods between the old method and the new timeline. Notice, I have the layers and animation palette both in the workspace...and I'm not in a maximized mode. The red arrow shows the correlation between the frame and the layer represented by it in the layers palette.

                           

                           

                          second-image.jpg

                          Here I have a second image to slip into my animation. I have the creature selected and on it's own layer with transparency around it. Notice that the the layer with the isolated creature is highlighted. At this stage, I'll press Ctrl + A; then Ctrl + C to select and save this image to my clipboard.

                           

                           

                          creature-added.jpg

                           

                          Here, I've pasted (Ctrl + V or Edit<Paste) in my creature and resized it (Ctrl + T or Edit<free transform) so he can be jumped. I also added a shadow under my creature which I added to a layer under my creature. Notice that when Frame one is selected in the animation palette that the eye is on for  both the layer with the creature and the layer with the creature's shadow. If I click the eye to turn them (creature and shadow layers) off with frame one selected in the animation palette, they disappear from the entire animation. I can make them appear at any frame by clicking the desired frame in the animation then turning on the eye icon for the creature and shadow layer in the layers palette. I can also adjust opacity if desired.

                           

                          You could even more than the one image if you want the dog to appear to move or even transform<warp to the dog on a duplicate layer of the dog to make it appear to move. Use the eyeball visibility to determine which pose will be used for that frame.

                           

                          Gif's don't seem to display in this forum but here's an example of using transform<warp to give the appearance of motion.

                           

                          http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1hymrPIWtTyCwWFFs29uKHprfrN5bD0

                          • 11. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
                            tan7281 Community Member

                            well...........l when I try to open Gif with the import and chose the video frames to layers...am getting a message saying I need Quicktime 7.1 to be able to do??? and when selecting import that is the only option I have to open my animated picture?...YOU HAVE BEEN SO MUCH HELP!   THANK YOU SO MUCH...! 

                             

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                            Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:23:27 -0600

                            From: forums@adobe.com

                            To: tanoozie@msn.com

                            Subject: Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended

                             

                             

                            I'm not sure anyone mentioned this but if not to open GIFs using the import you have to enter the GIF name as GIF isn't listed as one of the options.

                             

                            It sounds like you are viewing the images in a maximized screen mode. To view more than one document, press F to cycle through the screen modes. FYI, only the contents of the currently selected document can be viewed in the layers palette.

                             

                            I'll just talk about copy/paste so as not to confuse...

                             

                            If you are going to copy/paste, click the frame around the dog document to target it. Your layers palette will now contain the contents of the dog document. Click on the layer in the layers palette with the selected dog over transparency. With that layer highlighted in your layers palette, press Ctrl A; then Ctrl C. (Select<Select All; Edit<copy if you prefer using the menu.) This will copy that layer into your clipboard.

                             

                            Next, click the frame of the document containing the animation. Click the topmost layer in the layers palette because we want you dog to be in the top layer. Press Ctrl + V. (Edit<Paste if you prefer using the menu).

                             

                            Your dog is most likely going to be too big. Use Edit<Free Transform to size and move the dog to the desired location.

                             

                            At this point, your dog should be showing in each frame in the animation palette.

                             

                            Example:

                             

                             

                            http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/25315/with-palettes-open.jpg

                             

                            I'm using the older Image Ready me method. The highlighted place in the palette is where you switch methods between the old method and the new timeline. Notice, I have the layers and animation palette both in the workspace...and I'm not in a maximized mode. The red arrow shows the correlation between the frame and the layer represented by it in the layers palette.

                             

                             

                            Image:second-image.jpg

                            Here I have a second image to slip into my animation. I have the creature selected and on it's own layer with transparency around it. Notice that the the layer with the isolated creature is highlighted. At this stage, I'll press Ctrl + A; then Ctrl + C to select and save this image to my clipboard.

                             

                             

                            Image:creature-added.jpg

                             

                            Here, I've pasted (Ctrl + V or Edit<Paste) in my creature and resized it (Ctrl + T or Edit<free transform) so he can be jumped. I also added a shadow under my creature which I added to a layer under my creature. Notice that when Frame on is selected in the animation palette that the eye is on both the creature and the shadow. If I click the eye to turn them (creature and shadow layer) off, they disappear from the entire animation. I can make them appear at any frame by clicking the desired frame in the animation then turning on the eye icon for the creature and shadow layer in the layers palette. I can also adjust opacity if desired.

                             

                            You could even more than the one image if you want the dog to appear to move. Use the eyeball visibility to determine which pose will be used for that frame.

                             

                            Example:

                             

                            Image:jump-creature-gif.gif

                            Here, I used transform warp to adjust the pose of the creature for a few frames as he's jumping the creature...just for fun.

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                            • 12. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
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                              • 13. Re: Help with image ready on ps3 extended
                                Terri_F Community Member

                                As the last poster said, you really should try to learn the basics. You're really leaping ahead...

                                 

                                As I said, you'll need to input the gif file name with the .gif extention to get a .gif to import. FYI, you won't see any gifs listed in the list portion of the box so you need to input in the name. Once you start the file name, windows (Vista) will start listing suggestions in the file open drop down box. (This assumes that you have the dialog pointed at the location...desktop or folder...where you have the GIF saved).

                                 

                                NO-gif-option.jpg

                                 

                                Import dialog doesn't show gif option.

                                 

                                dialog-add.jpg

                                Here I inserted the name of the gif animation file along with the .gif extention. Press "Load" to get the next import dialog box for how you want the gif to open.

                                 

                                suggestions.jpg

                                 

                                Here you notice Vista suggesting items that I might want to load from my desktop...where I have the dialog pointed...that start with u. Just click the appropriate choice if it comes up to fill in the file name box.