JustinSnow opened this issue on Dec 03, 2007 · 10 posts
JustinSnow posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 1:55 AM
On my free time I was thinking about making model then animating it to a gif or something.
TIF, TARGA and JPEG formats all render to seperate image files. I'm sure photoshop has some way of putting together some image sequence like this into animation, but its probably not to automated.
I was hoping there is some format or plugin allowing gif animation rendering. So, I can make some animated avatars.
Justin Waters
3D Artist / Game Designer
Mountain Lion Studio
macatelier posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 3:24 AM
Photoshop comes with Image Ready. Open Photoshop then in the tool bar right at the bottom, click on Edit in Image Ready. If you have all your images in one folder you can import them all into Image Ready as frames (click on File - Import - folders as frames). Once finished you can saved as animated GIF.
JustinSnow posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 6:34 AM
Thanks for the help.
Maybe someday their will be a animated gif codec or soemthing....
Justin Waters
3D Artist / Game Designer
Mountain Lion Studio
Kaji posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 6:55 AM
ImageReady is gone in CS3... how do you do this now? With Fireworks?
macatelier posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 7:19 AM
Has it really? Sorry I don't have CS3 so I don't know how it would be done. I would think you could do it in Fireworks also, unless that's changed beyond recognition?
dreamer101 posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 7:20 AM
Didn't they incorporate Image Ready into Photoshop in the CS3 version? If you have CS3 the method is probably similar to be done right in Photoshop. I may be wrong.
JustinSnow posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 2:43 PM
No, what you do is render it as an AVI....then File > Video Frames to Layers.....for CS3 ;)
Justin Waters
3D Artist / Game Designer
Mountain Lion Studio
JustinSnow posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 3:13 PM
if you have CS3 Extended you can actually open name001.tga and then check the sequence check box. It will automatically get the rest of the image sequence and set it up in a timeline for you.
Hope that helps someone....
Justin Waters
3D Artist / Game Designer
Mountain Lion Studio
Kaji posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 5:42 PM
Quote - Didn't they incorporate Image Ready into Photoshop in the CS3 version? If you have CS3 the method is probably similar to be done right in Photoshop. I may be wrong.
According to one book I read, ImageReady has been discontinued, and some of its functions are in Photoshop. For rollovers and image maps you need to install Fireworks.
retrocity posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 10:33 PM
CS3 does have the "Animation" (timeline) palette from ImageReady as part of the program so could still do the GIF anim within PS. i use it for quick "avitar" type icon stuff...
retrocity