Animated Fire

[SpencerK]

Thanks for the great tutorial, took me a while to get it.

One thing though, I would like to add a layer onto the the flame but do not know how to add transparant letters to a layer.

Can anyone assist me, thanks.

[ScubaStan]

it say this "Select the last frame and drag your layers up till one of the layers disappears from your canvas and the other shows up." Am i dragging the layers them selves and what dose it mean by up? up where? i dont under stand this sentence at all. any help would be superb thanks.

[cinimodaz]

I make the flame just fine steps 1,2,3 but then from 4 on it gets to confusing for me. I was able to make it animate somewhat but it is jumpy it goes through a flame animation then resets to the original position making it look like it is just a loop not a on going transition. What am I doing wrong?

[Kathleen]

Using CS2, I found "layer via cut" only if I right click on the selection not the layers palette. Is that something new in CS3?
I'm not new to Photoshop, but I'm having a hard time with the animation - as soon as I put it in Image Ready, one of the layers becomes blank.
So that's only how far I can go.............I tried using the Photoshop animation instead, but it goes wavy (back and forth) instead of up and down.......help?
Thanks!
BTW - yours looks gorgeous - I want to do this!!!!!

[Nintendo_Ownes7]

I got it to animate but when I made it a gif it didn't work. I was a little confused animating it but I got it to work it just wouldn't show up when I made it a gif.

Is their a difference with gifs if I was on a Mac? I made it on a Mac but it wouldn't work on my PC.

[closeupman]

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Step 7: Now just merge the two layers, CTRL+click the layer in the layer palette, and Image > Crop.

Duplicate this layer and position it directly below the the other one so that it is off your canvas. See the image on the left for a quick animated explanation.
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You should add:
Then position the original one so they appear seamless(as one).
Now...VERY IMPORTANT!!!
LINK the layers (not sure if it's the same in all PS versions....but in CS2...you select the layers...right click...and select link layers...both layers must be regular layers(i.e. one can't be a background layer))

THEN drag 'em down until you see transparency, then drag back up so the top of the layers is at the top of the canvas(i.e. no transparency showing).

You can see this in your animation, but it is such a small window, that it is easy to miss this operation!

As to the drag one until it disappers...I have NO idea...an animation might have helped here.

I just dragged until it seemed like the other layer appeared(i.e. they didn't seem as one)...I even dragged till I saw some transparency and then deleted these extra frames...

As to the looping... After deleting my extra transparency appearing frames...I deleted the last frame and it WORKED!!!

Check out my attachment.


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