Automated export of layers

Good evening all.

Via Actions, the Sphere filter, and a great original earth pic , I've generated a 352 layer file of the earth spinning. Each layer shows the earth from a slightly different angle. WIth lighting effects and all, it's pretty cool.

Now I want to export it to 352 (alpha-channel-enabled) .png files for inclusion ito a Director program. (A simple GIF animation using ImageReady leaves fringing.)

I cannot figure out how to create the separate files except via by hand. Any ideas?

Mike

i would make a custom action.....
** edit: i tried doing it myself had some problems, like renaming it for every frame and such but i'm new to actions


found this though... http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/type/tutorial.asp?id=27467 looks interesting

I tried a few things for you, new guy...

with ps7, you can do a few more cool tricks while creating actions than I was aware of in v6, including 'insert menu item' - now, until there is a command available for 'move to the layer below the selected layer' - I'm afraid that you might have to do the nasty stuff.

try to do as much of the alpha channel stuff with an action, is all I can tell you. That, and make a fresh pot of coffee, bro.

good luck, sorry I couldn't help more. Keep us posted on what turns up.
graphicsguy

Howdy,

What turned up last night at 2am was JASC Paint Shop Pro's Animation program. It let me import a PSD, then send out the frames as PNGs.

However this was not as easy as it sounds: PSP can only read 100 layers, so I had to split my orginal file into four files and process them one at a time. Then the export didn't preserve the alpha channel, so I had to take the resulting 350 files back into PhotoShop and kill the background around my globe.

Whew.

Mike