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Misc => The Lounge => Topic started by: freestyler on March 12, 2011, 04:00:31 pm
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I'm trying to add "Onion skin" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_skinning) effect to an animated GIF using Photoshop (CS5). I open a gif file, open "Animation" tab and enable Onion skin. The built-in preview shows it correctly - frames are neatly blended with each other. Okay, I click "Save for Web" (regular "Save" doesn't save animated GIFs), and... the whole Onion skin effect is not there anymore. It doesn't matter whether I make a new gif from scratch or open an existing gif - onion skin doesn't work. Restarting Photoshop doesn't solve it.
So... How to apply onion skin to animated gif using Photoshop?
If you don't know, then please, don't reply with spam. I did use Google, and it returned only two relevant sites - one of them (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/732588) has not been answered at all, the other one (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KeagF0uobzAJ:designatedsource.forumcommunity.net/%3Ft%3D43474879+http://designatedsource.forumcommunity.net/%3Ft%3D43474879&cd=1&hl=pl&ct=clnk&source=www.google.com) got no meaningful reply. This thread might be useful for other people who try to make it work.
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Isn't onion skin just a view option? To see earlier frames of animation and allow you to decide what to do on next frame therefore it's not visible in ready .gif file? Maybe I'm wrong...
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That would make sense. How to add such effect to an existing gif then? (without inserting middle-frames manually)
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Wouldn't onionskin require alpha?
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That would make sense. How to add such effect to an existing gif then? (without inserting middle-frames manually)
I haven't used PS for ages now, but there was an option in ImageReady (Photoshop's part resposible for animations) to do it. Try right clicking on frame or select 2 frames and right click then, there should be something like 'smooth frames changing' or something, which will add the frames between automatically.