Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 v.14.xx - Manual (Page 733)

Painting frames in video layers
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Paint frames in video layers
Cloning content in video and animation frames
Restore frames in video layers
Managing color in video layers
Paint frames in video layers
You can edit or paint on individual video frames to create an animation, add content, or to remove unwanted details. In addition to using any brush
tool, you can paint using the Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp, Healing Brush, or Spot Healing Brush. You can also edit video frames using the Patch
tool.
Painting (or using any other tool) on video frames is often called rotoscoping; although traditionally, rotoscoping involves the frame-by-frame
tracing of live action images for use in animation.
1. In the Animation (Photoshop Extended CS5), Timeline (CS6), or Layers panel, select the video layer.
2. Move the current time indicator to the video frame you want to edit.
3. (Optional) If you want your edits to be on a separate layer, choose Layers > Video Layers > New Blank Video Layer.
4. Select the brush tool that you want to use and apply your edits to the frame.
Painting on a video layer is nondestructive. To discard the altered pixels on a specific frame or video layer, choose the Restore Frame or
Restore All Frames command. To toggle on and off the visibility of altered video layers, choose the Hide Altered Video command (or click
the eyeball next to the altered video track in the timeline).
Cloning content in video and animation frames
In Photoshop Extended CS5 or Photoshop CS6, you can use the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools to retouch or duplicate objects in video or
animation frames. Use the Clone Stamp to sample content from one part of a frame (the source) and paint it over another part of the same or
different frame (the target). You can also use a separate document as the sampling source, instead of a frame. The Healing Brush includes
options for blending the sampled content with the target frame.
You can also clone content with the Spot Healing Brush and the Patch tools. However, the Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush tools let you
store up to five samples in the Clone Source panel, and set overlay, scaling, and frame offset options.
After you sample content from a frame and paint with it, and then move to another frame, the source frame changes relative to the frame you
initially sampled from. You can lock in the source frame you first sampled, or enter a frame offset value to change the source to a different frame,
relative to the frame you first sampled.
For a video on cloning frames, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0025 .
Clone video or animation content
1. Select the Clone Stamp tool or Healing Brush tool , and then set the tool options you want.
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