: Smoother shape animation I'm not new to Photoshop but I'm new to animations in Photoshop and my question is how to animate vector shapes in Photoshop. I have made a simple paper plane and

@Murray976

Photoshop animation is strictly limited to these changes:


Opacity
Position
Layer visibility
perhaps some adjustment layer attributes


None of the vector features have special attributes that can be animated beyond the above. Between each frame "state", all of the underlying layer bitmap contents and vector shapes are fundamentally unchanged.

Tweening won't help much because it merely adds steps (e.g. adding 50% between 0% and 100%) of the above attributes in between what is already there. It cannot determine where any of the pixels appear to be moving, unlike AE.


"[T]he problem is that it doesn't have many frames, …"


So you will have to add more manually. They will likely need to be separate shapes, visible only in their own frame.

You might also get better results in Flash, which does have adjustable shapes.

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