Animating the Winter Sky

You still need to animate the WinterSky layer. Rather than animating it by changing the position coordinate numbers as you did for the SummerSky layer, let’s try an alternate approach. This time, you’ll use the Selection tool to move and keyframe the layer. Make sure you’re still on frame 200. In the Viewer panel, click the WinterSky layer to select it. Be aware that there can be several layers under the Selection tool, which can make it difficult to select the layer you want. The solution is to lock the layers you aren’t working on currently so you can’t select them. Click the box in the SummerVersion lock column to make the layer unselectable until you unlock it (Figure 13-21).

Figure 13-21: Lock the SummerVersion ...

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