Photoshop Elements Animation (text and otherwise)

[dnz4him]

I use Photoshop Elements for all my icons (that's all I have, and I can't buy anything else) and I really want to animate some icons. I've been through all the memories and haven't found any answers, so those who use Photoshop Elements, how do you do it? I've checked their help and go through the "Save for Web" process, just like they say, but the

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[photoholic62]

You have to have an animation program. Many versions of photoshop come with imageready, but I don't know if elements does. Look under File, see if there is a "jump to.." and when you click it, imageready is one of the options. If so, that's your animation program.

[photoholic62]

HERE is a tutorial I wrote about imageready... covers basic stuff.

Let me know if it helps you, please.

[catatonic1242]

You don't have to have an animation program. I use Elements for all of my icons, including the mini-movie one I'm using to post with.

What you have to do in Elements is create a file with all of the layers that you want to animate in the order that you want to animate them. For example in this icon:

[dnz4him]

Did you duplicate the base picutre for each layer (so that the text was already on it)? Every time I add text, it makes it into a new layer and then doesn't show up when I attempt to animate.

[catatonic1242]

Yes. Each layer has the base image as well as the text.

[dnz4him]

Thank you so much! I'll give this another try later this afternoon, thanks again so much for your help! I'll comment again if I get stuck ;) Thanks!