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Juan Cano
Juan Cano
Inspiring
February 10, 2021
Question

Photoshop Timeline Animate Web Banner

  • February 10, 2021
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So I've been using and struggling with animating web banners for over 20 years. Animation would be a generous term, all I'm trying to do is a 3-frame GIF and set the seconds on each frame.

I created one of these, all great. Then I had to do a ton of edits (life right? and now when I try to re-do it, the elements on my Ad get comepltely out off whack. They are not in the Photoshop layers, but it's like the Timeline somehow recorded my process of rearranging objects and it's stuck there? Can I reset the Timeline to start over? I can't figure it out. Such a waste of time. I am sure there's some app where I can just upload 3 JPGs and make it an animated GIF I guess.

 

This has to be something that I just don't get. I do these every 6-months so not exactly a sharp skill. Help!

 

 

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Derek Cross
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Derek CrossCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 11, 2021

Presumably these are for social media; have a look at Adobe Spark, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Animate - these are better tools for this kind of animations.

    Juan Cano
    Juan CanoAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 11, 2021

    Adobe Spark is only on the iPad (I think that's correct) and I've found it limiting. I guess I could export these as JPGs and upload but I need to create many sizes. But will try it again. Haven't used Animate and not quite feeling like learning a program for creating 4 web banners. Never mind After Effects. I may just find an online "Turn your images into an animated GIF" website.

     

    Thanks

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 10, 2021

    Please post screenshots of all three Frames with the expanded Layers Panel visible. 

    Is the problem the visibility of also the position of elements? 

    Juan Cano
    Juan CanoAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 10, 2021

    OK; I have my 3 frames created in all these layers and grouped these as Groups 1, 2, 3. Usually I open the Timeline, first frame is there, I 'make visible' Group 1, set the time, then add a second frame, turn Group 1 off and Group 2 on, and then same for the 3rd Group. Then I export as a GIF.

     

    But once in a while, like now, when I've worked on a file, when I go into the timeline, and I delete all the frames (all but you can't delete Frame 1). And I "'make visible' " like Group 2 to show it in that frame, the Layer Group is all ou of whack; my elements are jumbled. Lie somehow the Timeline took a snapshot of my process when moving elements around and decided to use that mmoment.

     

    If I close the Timeline, I can cycle through my Groups on/off and theyy look fine, no issues.

     

    Feel like I am doing something essentially wrong since I have been having this issue intermitently since like 1999.

     

    Thanks

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 11, 2021

    Was I being unclear? Please post screenshots of all three Frames with the expanded Layers Panel visible. 

     

    When you move Layers the Frame you want to edit thusly needs to be selected in the Timeline Panel. 

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