Help with Photoshop animation

[escott]

I am trying to create a picture that "slides" across the screen.
I have the picture and I made duplicate layers of the pic so that I
can create the animation. I need to crop each pic differently so that
it appears to slowly appear on the screen. The problem I am having
is when I try to crop each duplicate pic it crops all of the layers instead
of just the current one I am working on.

Can someone help me please


Thanks

[iDad]

want to explain how your doing this?

What you need to do it use your marquee tool on each layer cropping is changing dimension of complete photo

[escott]

I am going to create a web page that shows an image appearing on the screen from left to right. In order to do this I have to take an image and crop it in different sections so that as each piece is added it appears as the though the picture is slowly coming on the screen going from the left to the right. I opened the pic file, then I duplicated it about 10 times, creating a diff layer for each. I then attempted to crop one of the layers since it would be the initial piece that I would use to appear on the screen. When I crop that 1st layer if automatically crops all of the layers in the layer panel.

[Yamrotil]

If you just need to animate movement use 'animation timeline' and not 'animation frames.' Click the button with red outline in pic to access the different tab. Work with animations with layers instead of frame by frame. Crude Example:

a.gif

[escott]

Thanks, but will that correct the problem I am having when
I try to crop the picture?

[Yamrotil]

lol, I need to read more carefully. You may be able to solve crop issue by not using crop, because as mentioned by iDad this effects the whole canvas. If you have something selected and you would be usually going for the crop button then try going to the Select Menu > Inverse > and hit the Delete key.

Also if by 'picture slowly coming on the screen' you mean fading in invisible to begin with and becoming solid then you can also use the opacity tab in the Animations timeline and there will be no need for multiple layers. (I get the feeling its something more complicated that that though )

[escott]

Hey thanks alot. I'll try it out today when I have the chance. If we get hit with the snow storm then I'll have plenty of time on my hands

[Yamrotil]

Your welcome, good luck with it.

[escott]

I couldn't quite figure out what timeline meant, but I did get it to work. Thanks you guys