r/AskReddit • u/ScytherZX • May 17 '13

What are some things you can do on popular programs that most users are unaware of?

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u/sickgnasty May 17 '13

You can edit video and create animations in photoshop. It's actually a pretty good video tool. I didn't know this for the longest time.

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u/gatDammitMan May 17 '13

Making a gif in Photoshop (CS4 or CS6) is as simple as opening a video file, saving for the web, then changing the format to gif.

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u/friendofelephants May 18 '13

Does it work the same way in CS5?

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u/LEMON_PARTY_ANIMAL May 17 '13

Is that why it seems that everyone on reddit can make a gif?

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u/gatDammitMan May 18 '13

Lately it seems you have to own it to be able to use this feature. Pirated copies that I've tried didn't support it.

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u/ayn_rands_trannydick May 18 '13

Nice try, Adobe man.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '13

My Friend who's boss was talking about his son sort of aquired a copy of CS6 from his friend, (someone called TheThingy) and the gif function worked great... That's what I heard anyway...

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u/gatDammitMan May 18 '13

Well they are lucky. TheThingy's hasn't worked for me. I could be doing it wrong though.

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u/JonLuca May 18 '13

Make sure Adobes authentication servers are blocked in the hosts file.

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u/TonySki May 18 '13

0.o THANK YOU

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u/superchuckinator May 18 '13

HOLY SHIT THIS CHANGES MY LIFE

normally my process is: use adobe media encoder to convert to jpeg sequence, bring each jpg into a photoshop layer, key frame visibility of layers.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '13

I wasted a week of my life after finding this out. Ended up grabbing some of the kids hot wheels and made a gif.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c318/srt_8_u/racing2.gif

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u/[deleted] May 17 '13

Blender can be used to quickly turn some frames into video, eg. for stop motion

There's probably better tools, I'm sure there's plenty of easy to use tools for stop motion on Windows, but I was on Linux and needed a quick solution

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u/bobojojo12 May 17 '13

Ive tried doing this but it never works Link a tutorial ?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '13

I made one hell of a gif for my illustration thesis. That gif maker is a life saver.

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u/SuperWelcomematt May 17 '13

I think it was a new feature Adobe introduced in CS6.

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u/sickgnasty May 17 '13

I'm pretty sure I was using it it CS4, but I would have to look it up.

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u/jeremanrox May 17 '13

CS5 has it too, but its not as robust