Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

Creating 3D Animations

Photoshop lets you animate a 3D object so it appears to move through space, plus you can change its appearance over time. To do that, open the file containing the 3D object and then open the Timeline panel (Window →Timeline), and then click the Create Video Timeline button. (If you don’t see this button, click the triangle in the middle of the panel, choose Create Video Timeline panel, and then click the button.) When you do that, Photoshop adds all the layers in the Layers panel to the Timeline panel as video layers.

Tip

See Chapter 20 for a refresher on working with the Timeline panel.

To access a 3D object’s animation properties, in the Timeline panel, click the flippy triangle next to the object’s name. To create a keyframe animation for properties such as Position, Opacity, Style, 3D Camera Position, 3D Render Settings, 3D Cross Section, and so on, just click the stopwatch icon next to the property’s name (if the property has a flippy triangle next to its name, click it to expand the property and then you’ll see a stopwatch icon). You can then treat each object and property the same way you’d treat any other object you’re animating in the timeline. (See Animating Objects and Effects for details on creating animations.)