How to make path behind animation

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September 11, 2017
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I have a simple key frame animation of a caricature moving on the screen. I would like to have it leave a trail of its path of movement. How do I do this in Photoshop?

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Silkrooster

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Off the top of my head, one way would be to make a layer for each head. (ctrl-j) can be used to create the new layer with the head copied in that layer. place each head in the proper location and set the opacity to 0.

Then use opacity to make the head visible once the original layer passes that head.

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daveo58Author

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What I'm trying to do is have the moving character leave a trial or path behind it as it moves. just like the image below.

Silkrooster

Legend

Ah, extending the line. I thought you wanted a ghost trail of heads.

That maybe easier to do in After effects. You create the entire line with points or anchors to represent the length of the line at that time. Then After effects will draw the line to each points that will coincide with a key frame.

In photoshop you could use frame animation and copy the line to all frames, then in each frame extend the line. This would be quicker by clearing the frames and doing the work in layers then create the frames from layers.

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