Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 571)

564 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Video and animation
Last updated 1/10/2010
5 Select the destination layer.
6 Open the Animation panel menu and choose Paste Keyframes.
Delete keyframes (Photoshop Extended)
❖ Select one or more keyframes and do one of the following:
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a selected keyframe, and choose Delete Keyframes from the
context menu.
• From the Animation panel menu, choose Delete Keyframes.
Create hand-drawn animations (Photoshop Extended)
You can add a blank video layer to your document when you want to create frame-by-frame hand-drawn animations.
Adding a blank video layer above a video layer and then adjusting the opacity of the blank video layer, allows you to
see the contents of the video layer below. You can then rotoscope the video layer content by painting or drawing on
the blank video layer. See also “
Paint frames in video layers (Photoshop Extended) ” on page 546.
Note: If you’re animating several independent elements, create separate content on different blank video layers.
1 Create a new document.
2 Add a blank video layer.
3 Paint or add content to the layer.
4 (Optional) Click the Toggle Onion Skins button to enable onion skinning.
5 Move the current-time indicator to the next frame.
6 Paint or add content to the layer in a slightly different position from the content in the previous frame.
You can add a blank video frame, duplicate a frame, or delete a frame from the blank video layer by choosing Layer >
Video Layers and then choosing the appropriate command.
As you create more hand-drawn frames, you can either drag the current time indicator or use the playback controls in
the Animation panel to preview your animation.
Insert, delete, or duplicate blank video frames (Photoshop Extended)
A blank video frame can be added to or removed from a blank video layer. You can also duplicate existing (painted)
frames in blank video layers.
1 In the Animation panel, select the blank video layer and then move the current-time indicator to the desired frame.
2 Choose Layer > Video Layers and then choose one of the following:
Insert Blank Frame Inserts a blank video frame in the selected blank video layer at the current time.
Delete Frame Deletes the video frame in the selected blank video layer at the current time.
Duplicate Frame Adds a copy of the video frame at the current time in the selected blank video layer.
Specify onion skin settings (Photoshop Extended)
Onion skin mode displays content drawn on the current frame plus content drawn on the surrounding frames. These
additional frames appear at the opacity you specify to distinguish them from the current frame. Onion skin mode is
useful for drawing frame-by-frame animations because it gives you reference points for stroke positions and other
edits.