How to make sequences in photoshop :: A tutorial video

Yeah that was really helpful. Pretty similar to how I have been doing them but there is certainly some pointers I will use in future sequences.
 
You can save a lot of time if you just open your frames from inside Photoshop using File/Scripts/Load into stack and select Attempt to Auto Align. Then just mask away.
 
Yeah that does work well in some cases but it has a couple of disadvantages, if you didnt use a tripod you would have to make small adjustments to each frame anyway. Once you get into a rhythm of quick masking command+shift+I , command+C , command+V you can add a new frame in a few seconds.

The second disadvantage is file sizing, with an 8 megapixel camera if you put even 3 full layers on top of each other the resulting photoshop file is about 90 megabytes. By the time you get to 21 layers (as this example would have been) you are talking about a seriously big file with a lot of redundant information in it. The same example with the first 3 layers done the way i suggest in the video is only 45 megabytes and most of that is the initial background layer. It doesnt increase that much every time you add a new frame. It means that you can get things done faster on a computer with a lot less ram and processing power and if you shoot a lot of sequences you wont need to use as much storage space for them.
 
Yeah true on the file size. Auto Align really does a pretty good job fixing slight movements from handheld shots though, then you can always delete unneeded portions of frames once they're in the right place.
 
Nice!

Since I have a fast machine with 2gb ram, I just load into a stack and auto-align, it works better for me, but you have a good point about the file sizes, for some people, this is probably a much better method.

I didn't watch the whole thing, so I don't know if you mentioned this, but all the shots in the sequence should have the same exposure! I've seen lots of people try to make sequences out of shots they were shooting on Av or Auto or what-have-you, and a few of the frames have different exposures, which makes it a little harder than simply masking...keep it in mind.
 
I actually skipped to the middle to see how you were doing the masking and stuff, I skipped past the first part, haha, sorry!
 
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