Animation and Sound with Photoshop

Open your photoshop document.

Name your layers so you know what is on each layer and arrange them so they are in order of appearance (unless this messes up your image).

Switch from Essentials to Motion at the top right

Click the button that says "Create a video timeline"

Go down to the bottom of the layers and find the audio track. Click the little musical note and then choose Add Audio.

Use the play button to begin listening to your audio and press the space bar when you start to talk about something in your collage. Move the layer so that it starts when you talk about it.

Pro Tip: Use the scale tool at the bottom of the screen to scale in and out.

Your timeline should look like this:

Be sure to save this with a different name. I recommend: farleyt_collage_animation_001.psd This will keep you from overwriting your collage should you ever need to go back to it.

Only if you want to:

To make your layers fade in, you need to animate the opacity of each layer.

1. Click the little arrow to the left of the layer.

2. Move the playhead to the arrow on the layer (or anywhere you want) and press the stopwatch button for Opacity.

3. Move the playhead to the beginning of the layer and adjust the opacity to zero.

To create a video select File > Export > Render Video...

When the window pops up be sure it has a name. Do not delete the .mp4 extension.

Select the folder it will be saved into.

Make the Format H.264.

Make the Range All Frames.

Click the Render button

Post your video to Youtube. Be sure you are using your slamfamily.com youtube account.