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luchababe
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January 10, 2017
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Layer FX won't stay consistent in frames of animation

  • January 10, 2017
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I'm creating gifs that have text with a drop shadow. The text appears on each frame of the gif and has a drop shadow with a 120º angle. But the shadow FX is only correct in whatever frame is active as I work. Every other frame has a different angle. I have FX linked to be consistent through the entire animation but it's not doing it. I have to manually go to each frame and correct the angle to be the same throughout. It's very time consuming. I'm new to CC so maybe there's an option to select to help but I can't find it.

I also try selecting all the frames and THEN pasting the FX setting but it doesn't work either.

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Sam307112510ehy
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June 25, 2023

I moved to the top layer in the right hand layer stack.  Typed text, added effects. Opened timeline.

A group of tiny icons appears below the "Normal/Opacity" line at top of layer stack.

It is called Unify. The three icons are layer position, layer visibility, layer style (Fx)

Click layer style and you get a dialogue box to "Match" layer style on all layers. Click "Match"

Run the Gif in the timeline and the layer style will be on each frame!

 

AndreainToronto2
AndreainToronto2
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December 15, 2022

I found that I had added the drop shadow while it was on a specific frame in the timeline - so it would only flash on when it hit that frame. I went back to the first frame, check marked the drop shadow option and it held/carried on through the animation frames. 

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xoxoyazyxoxo
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August 27, 2020

I know this was years ago, but I found that TURNING OFF global light is what worked for me.

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    Marshallx
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    March 28, 2022

    Thank you! I had this issue and it was driving me crazy!  The Layer Style shadows were moving around during the animation. Turning off "Use Global Light" fixed it.

      HBI Canada
      HBI Canada
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      April 7, 2020

      I had this issue as well, and tried all the same fixes. I ended up just grouping and rasterizing all my layers with effects. Its kind of a destructive way of editing but for a one off/quick fix solution its worked 🙂 would love to know the reason behind this so I dont have to rasterize the layes all the time!

      davescm
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      davescmCommunity Expert
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      January 10, 2017

      Have you tried checking Use Global Light on all of them?

      Dave

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      luchababeAuthor
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      January 10, 2017

      Yup, Global Light is selected for each frame but it's still different for each frame. For example, 120º for the correct setting on 1 frame, 90º on every other frame.

      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      January 10, 2017

      Are you sure you only have one text layer with the layer style in the layer stack?

      JJMack
      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      January 10, 2017

      A frame in a frame animations is the composite of some number of layers in the layers stack.  Move the text layer with the layer style to the top of the layer stack. So other layers will not overlays the text layer style effect.

      JJMack
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      luchababeAuthor
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      January 10, 2017

      My text layer is at the top of my later stack so it appears on top of everything else in my animation. But the FX still doesn't stick correctly to each frame.

      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      January 10, 2017

      If it not proprietary can you upload the PSD and post a link to it? Did you try deleting the layer then add a new layer that show in all frames?

      JJMack
      Theresa J
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      Theresa JCommunity Expert
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      January 10, 2017

      I had a similar problem yesterday. I changed the Layer FX on a file that already had multiple frames established for the animation. I went into each frame invidually and changed the FX, but it didn't stick. I ended up deleting the original animated frames, keeping just the first frame with the new FX and then I duplicated frames out from there and recreated the animation.

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      luchababeAuthor
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      January 10, 2017

      I'm adding text to an existing gif that's part of a filmed sequence so I can't recreate the animation, I'm just adding to it. Just can't get the FX to stay the same throughout! Seems like a glitch since everything else is selected that should make it do so.

      Theresa J
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      Theresa JCommunity Expert
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      January 10, 2017

      It really sounds to me like you are experiencing the same glitch I found yesterday. I understand frame animation. What I set up should have worked. Weirdly the layer FX would initially show and then it would switch back to the original state. It only stuck on the first frame in the animation and that is why I started over by duplicating frames from there. They did fix my issue. I'm wondering if it might have to do with working in the most recent version of Photoshop CC, on a file that was create several versions back.

      What version of Photoshop are you using? Did the file originate from an earlier version?

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