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hugom822
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January 3, 2019
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Create picture series to build up an image

  • January 3, 2019
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I want to create a 365 day calendar that holds an individual picture every day. All pictures together build up to a final image, almost like a flip book children play with. I thought of creating a final image as B/W line drawing, then starting with a blank white image and have photoshop create 354 image in between that transform the white image into the final one.

Any ideas how I could do this?

I tried some own ideas but didn't really work. For now, I don't mind if either

a) random pixels appear for every new image, or

b) it's being build up from one side to the other (I experimented with white boxes moving up or right) or

c) the lines are growing, almost like an invisible hand drawing the image.

Thanks,

Hugo

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c.pfaffenbichler
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Community Expert
January 3, 2019

Could you illustrate what you want to achieve?

Your descriptions seems a bit unclear to me.

hugom822
hugom822Author
Participant
January 3, 2019

Difficult to describe;) Let me try again with a gif:

https://giphy.com/embed/xUPGGuzpmG3jfeYWIg

So let's say I want to draw the final image (house & trees) + image 1 (only the ground) but I want photoshop to produce the 363 pictures in between that (if you would connect them as an animation) would show give you the gif above. Only think is I don't want a animation but the 365 individual files that I can add to the calendar pages.

Hope that explanation was better?

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 3, 2019

Photoshop has some animation capabilities but

photoshop to produce the 363 pictures in between

seems a bit unclear so I suspect you may expect Photoshop to do your work for you to an exaggerated extent.

What are the actual elements you want to animate? (I know you ultimately don’t want an animated file but the individual images. If Photoshop is to help create in-betweens it still runs under »animation«.)

Do you have any animation experience?

Have you considered using an application that might be a better fit for the task (After Effects, Animate, …)?