You might have your timeline set to "Frame Animation" Try this: In the very bottom left corner of your timeline, there should be a small button. Hover over it, and if the pop-up text says "Convert to Video Timeline" then click on it. Hope this helps.
What do you mean by "stroke"? Your timeline should reflect the number of layers in your document. To animate your image, you will need to keep each individual element that you wish to animate on separate layers.
Excellent tutorial, just what I was looking for, thank you! I noticed my problem was I had drawn a single image in a video layer, and it only showed up on one keyframe. Needs to be on a regular image layer to be manipulated in the timeline I guess.
Were you using keyframes, as the video shows? You need a key frame for each position you want the picture to be in. One for starting position, and one for ending position, and the animation will take place in the frames in between (called "tweens" in animation-lingo).
It seems i can only do this with moving the layer around. How about a more complicated animation, based on puppetwarp, or at least tilting the object??
yeah, what bryce said... did i miss something?? CS6, right??? when i click "timeline" it only shows thumbnails and really simplified options to play and loop for seconds-forever and no advanced video looking options to edit each layer or move parts of layers around. as well, the "save to web" option has gif listed but not animated gif, so i'm unable to export the animation. hmmm.
Pink Army a different youtube video at v=dGqrvDKGWXQ around 2:15 shows you can right click in the timeline to change the type, but i don't have that option.. i even created a new document and it's not an option... could it be that i originally downloaded the trial version of CS6 and it's missing options now? anybody?
i opened image and unlocked background...but i dont see 'timeline' option under window..there shows all other options but not timeline...why is it so??
The timeline has not for each seperate layer a stroke. It only has one were i can put layers next to each other bur not below each other . Im 13 and dut h sorry for my grammar
There is a problem in mine how can I make the animation but I cant make the timeline like that in the video mine is like for making the gif pls help me and tell me how to fix it :(
@SoftwareMedia.com I've followed this tutorial repetitively and for some reason the object i am trying to animate just stays still throughout the whole timeline. Is there something I am doing wrong? I have a background which is locked. Then I have an image which i am scaling following this process so i would imagine the scale would start small then end up big, but after key framing it still stays the same size from the last time i modified it throughout the animation process?
+Stefan Esmaeili You may have found your answer already, but I'm new to this too and just figured it out. In order to transform an image (scale, warp, etc.), the layer must be converted to a smart object. If not, the key frames will only track the layer's position, opacity and style (haven't experimented with style yet).
It depends on what email client they are using. Some clients, such as Gmail, support the display of animated gifs inline with the email content. For clients that don't support inline animated GIFs, the user would have to save the image to their computer and then open it in their browser like he did in the video.
+Kaushik Satpati Yup! The only thing is that Adobe is starting to consider the Save to Web feature a Legacy feature without having introduced a replacement feature, so keep an eye on that when it gets updated!
This positions button and 'twee' thing doesn't exist!?!?! You pre set something then made it look like it comes up by clicking Window > Time Line. So annoying!!!! (Yes I have CS6)
