Photoshop/Imageready Gif Help!

[john_rambo]

Figured I see enough people photoshop on here I would give it a whirl asking here. I am trying to figure these out and wanted to do something with a pre existing gif.

http://www.freewebs.com/cometogetherformicheal/thriller%20Animation.gif

say I want to add a face over michaels there in the middle. What do I do? I tried moving the face over but if I changed position in one frame it changed in all of em. Any ideas? thanks!

[God of War]

Ordinarily, I would recommend using a mask here (no pun intended). But seeing as your gif has only 10 frames, this will be a different process. Simply place the new face you have (which should already be cleaned up and ready to go) onto MJ's face in each frame as a single frame in order of sequence. Make sure all 10 frames are unlocked on the right panel there. Or they will drag as you try and move the overlay image (new face). You have remove his face first or simply overlay. I'm no expert, but I do know a fair bit about animation stuff now. And I use IR a fair bit. Once that is all done, simply optimize and save as is.

Let me know who you went.

[God of War]

Here's a quick rough example using your gif, man :)

http://i26.tinypic.com/dourz7.gif

[john_rambo]

anyway I could get a couple screenshots of the process? I see what your sayin but i don't know exactly how to do it I want to learn though!

[God of War]

I made you a small video, Do you have msn and I can give you the file. I don't know how to upload videos to the net.

[Cipgop]

All you amazing people out there who use photoshop frequently and such... I wonder if I could get some help...

Just how on Earth do you use the layer function properly?

Need a basic explanation for Dummies... or a toturial of anyone got something...

Thanks.