Technical requirements

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The Timeline panel

A standard workflow in Photoshop involves editing still images where time is of no concern. However, when working with sequences or a set of frames that need to appear on the canvas at a specific time, we need a way of arranging assets accordingly. That’s where the aptly named Timeline panel comes in. It provides a linear editing system where, on the far left-hand side, we can see the start of the sequence. When dealing with animation frames, they start at frame 1 (shown as D in Figure 7.1), while a video timeline starts at zero.

You add the first few items you wish to see at the start of the timeline, then keep adding more assets to the right-hand side to build up a sequence. In traditional hand-drawn animation, a sheet of paper would represent one frame, and approximately 24 sheets of paper...