Layer Mask Timeline Animation - not possible?

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June 14, 2019
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I've been trying to animate the mask of a layer in Photoshop to create a slightly more interesting reveal of text, as per dozens of tutorials (not least Adobe's own), but no matter what I do, the keyframing doesn't work - is this now not a feature of Photoshop animation?

When I add a keyframe & move the mask, the position is the same across the timeline, instead of changing over time -the keyframe indicator for the first frame changes to the half-filled marker, instead of staying open.

Any reason why I might be getting this really annoying behaviour?

Correct answer Tonny B Good

I had exactly the same problem and it was driving me insane!

SOLUTION: while moving raster mask DON'T use Ctrl-T (transform), just use V key and move. It seems, PS is interpering it differently. This solved the issue for me!

For developers: please correct the issue! (my ver. 20.0.6)

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Mariam1603

Participant

This tutorial helped me solve this issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5Oz6xItq0

Use the move tool to move the layer mask

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Tonny B GoodCorrect answer

Participant

I had exactly the same problem and it was driving me insane!

SOLUTION: while moving raster mask DON'T use Ctrl-T (transform), just use V key and move. It seems, PS is interpering it differently. This solved the issue for me!

For developers: please correct the issue! (my ver. 20.0.6)

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, Tony, the developpers only fix the current version, 21.X.X did you try with that version to reproduce your issue?

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gustavoeto

Participant

Hey everyone, i've been having the same trouble and it's very annoying. Vector masks don't work eiter. Do you have any idea why? I'm guessing it's a bug, maybe? because it should work even with a text layer and a pixel mask.

I'm using Mac and Photoshop 2020

Thank you!

JJMack

Community Expert

What OS and PS version are you using. Here is what I see usinf Windows 10 CC 2019

JJMack

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AA9ArowAuthor

Participating Frequently

I'm using Win 10 with latest version of Photoshop 20.0.4 and I'd LOVE to be getting that result, but it's just not happening.

Omar.Fathy - Thanks for checking, yes - I'm definitely selecting the mask. The mask moves where I want it to, but it doesn't animate between frames, no matter what I do it stays in the last position I moved it to across all frames.

Thanks,

Amir