From the course: Animating in Photoshop
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Moving and unifying layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Animating in Photoshop
Moving and unifying layers
- [Instructor] Before we begin animating, I want to show you some of the pitfalls, very important features that could be very helpful, but are also kind of dangerous. So, I'll switch off the thumbnails. I'm going to make a new layer and I'm just going to draw a ball. So, let's say we start making new exposures. I'm going to make these both 1/10 of a second, and on the second exposure, again I'm using F1 and F2 to toggle from one to the other, let's say on the second exposure, I move the ball. This is great. Now I can even begin to think about doing some simple animations without even drawing. I can just reposition this thing. What's happening here is that each exposure allows the layer to have a different position. So, you can do all these things with it, and it will allow you to do simple positional animation if that's what you want to do. The danger with this is you accidentally move the object. So, I'm going to…
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