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Animation Basics

 

Use Photoshop and ImageReady to create animations.

Dave Cross is Senior Developer, Education and Curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is involved in all aspects of the training that is provided to NAPP members. Dave’s book “The Photoshop CS2 Help Desk” is now available on ScottKelbyBooks.com

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  2. sarah said on — May 24, 2008 @ 11:30 am

    this is really cute.. hope to learn more about animation. thanks for the basics though.. til next! Ü

  3. Ryan said on — July 10, 2008 @ 2:40 am

    Great tutorial, very helpful. :D

  4. rachel said on — September 17, 2008 @ 4:40 pm

    koolio =)

  5. David said on — November 13, 2008 @ 3:41 pm

    Great tutorial. Easy way to make simple animations for websites or even school projects.

  6. Ali said on — January 10, 2009 @ 1:25 am

    thanks this really helped alot

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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