Animated and unanimated
Maureen wrote:
How do I put together a graphic that has part of it animated and part not? I
have started with an animated .GIF file, added a .JPEG file to it and then
saved it as an animated file. This makes the .JPEG file blink on and off
while the other animation is running. For instance, I have put text on top
of an animation, but I don't want the text to be animated. How do I do this?
So you want the text to appear in every frame of the animation, i.e.
every layer of the GIF image. I assume your frames are in replace mode.
Thus you need to copy the text on every frame. If the number of frames
is not very high, it is only a matter of a few click:
1 place the text layer at the bottom of the layer stack, just above the
background;
2 duplicate the text layer;
3 merge the bottom layer of the pair just built with the underlying
layer;
4 move up the remaining text layer by one layer;
5 go back to step 2 until you are at the top layer.
If there are a lot of frames in your animation, using the GAP plugin
would be better.
