How to Animate your Still Images

• Open Photoshop - Do not open your images yet
• Set your workspace to the default: Window > Workspace > Default Workspace
• Open the Animation Palette: Window > Animation
• You should have a series of images prepared. Your images should be sized the same and be the same orientation (horizontal or vertical). They should also all live in a folder together.
• Now load your images into photoshop: File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack...
• A dialogue box will open: highlight your files. To highlight them all at once: click on the first, hold down shift, click on the last. Click ok.
• Photoshop will automatically load the images into a single file as a series of layers. All layers will be "on," which means you will see the "eyes" turned on in the layers palette.
• Once the files are loaded as layer, go to your animation palette and use the flyout menu. The icon for the flyout menu is very small. It looks like 3 little horizontal lines, like treads, in the upper right corner of the animation palette. When you click on it, the flyout will pop up... er, fly out.
• Click on "Make Frames from Layers."
• Be sure at this point to have the animation palette set to "frame" view. The animation palette has 2 views: Frames and Timeline. We want to work in frame view. To toggle between them, click the icon in the lower right corner of the animation palette. The frame view should look like a series of blocks lined in a horizontal row.
• You will see that each layer loads as a frame in the animation palette.
• As a default, frame "1" will be loaded at 10 seconds, and all of the other frames will load at 0 seconds. At the bottom of each frame you can adjust the amount of time that each frame is shown by clicking on the small drop-down and choosing a duration.
• You will notice as you click on different frames that the layers palette has adjusted which layer is "on" (which eyes are on or off.) Since the layers palette is hierarchical from top to bottom, whatever is the top layer that is turned "on" will be the designated image for the frame.

Suggestions:
Until you get a handle on how the frames effect one another, work on editing your images and adding and subtracting layers first. Arrange and select the duration for your frames as a last step.