Adobe 13101332 User Guide - Page 405

Adobe Photoshop Help Using Help | Contents | Index Creating Rollovers and Animations (ImageReady) Back 405 To add a frame to an animation: 1 In the Rollovers palette, select the state in which you want to display an animation. (See "Using the Rollovers palette" on page 398.) Adding an animation to the Normal state will cause the animation to play when the image is loaded in a Web browser. Adding an animation to another type of state will cause the animation to play when a user activates the state. 2 Do one of the following: • In the Animation palette, click the Duplicate Current Frame button or choose New Frame from the palette menu. • In the Rollovers palette, click the Create Animation Frame button or choose New Animation Frame from the palette menu. Note: If the Create Animation Frame button and the New Animation Frame command are not visible in the Rollovers palette, select Include Animation Frames in the Palette Options dialog box. (See "Using the Rollovers palette" on page 398.) 3 Modify the image for the frame using the Layers palette. (See "About working with layers in rollovers and animations" on page 396.) Selecting frames Before you can work with a frame, you must select it as the current frame. The contents of the current frame appear in the document window. You can select multiple frames, either contiguous or discontiguous, to edit them or apply commands to them as a group. When multiple frames are selected, only the current frame appears in the document window. In the Animation palette, the current frame is indicated by a narrow border (inside the shaded selection highlight) around the frame thumbnail. Selected frames are indicated by a shaded highlight around the frame thumbnails. To select the current frame: Do one of the following: • Click a frame in the Animation palette. • Click a frame in the Rollovers palette. If necessary, expand the state that contains the animation to view its frames. (See "Using the Rollovers palette" on page 398.) • In the Animation palette or the Layers palette, click the Forward button to select the next frame in the series as the current frame. • In the Animation palette or the Layers palette, click the Backward button to select the previous frame in the series as the current frame. • In the Animation palette, click the Select First Frame button to select the first frame in the series as the current frame. To select multiple frames: In the Animation palette, do one of the following: • To select contiguous multiple frames, Shift-click a second frame.The second frame and all frames between the first and second are added to the selection. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 405