I am a digital retoucher and I want to have some case studies on my web site.
So what I want to do is be able to show how I created and image in Photoshop. I
want this to be a movie that would start with the bottom layer of an image and
then would start to build layer by layer. I also want to be able to have a
scrub bar, so that someone could be able stop and go back to any point in the
movie. I have already gone back into Photoshop and created all of the layers,
about 110. So the bottom layer is my background, then I just started to build
up the file, layer by layer. So that each layer only has a small portion of
the image on it, only what has changed from the layer underneath. Basically, if
I added a new person to the image, there would be a layer with just that one
person on a transparent layer. I did this because I figure that it would keep
down on the size of the file, so instead of having 110 solid layers, there are
only about 8 that are solid and the rest only have a small portion of the layer
filled. To create this movie I have After Effects 7, Fireworks 8, Image Ready
CS2, or IMovie 5. I am not actually building my web site, my wife is. She has
created a few web sites herself but has not ever actually done anything like I
want to do with this movie. She thinks that I should just give her the 110
layers, which I have now converted into files, and then just let her build out
the movie frame by frame in flash. I think that there must be an easier way and
that I should be able to just create a movie with one of the apps I mentioned
and then she could import that into Flash and add the scrub bar. I am going to
have to do this with a couple of my files, So what is the best way to go about
getting this done in the best and most efficient way?
Thanks,
Steve
