Photoshop to animate?

[Bugaloo]

so, I have to make this charcoal animation for art class.  We have to make it by drawing each frame with charcoal and taking a picture with our camera.  I was wondering if I can put these pictures all in photoshop and just string them together somehow?
The reason I ask is because some need a bit of editing so they'll all be aligned correctly and it won't look like the frame is jumpin' around.  Is there another program that can do this?

The current method I'm using is to put them in photoshop to decrease the picture size and them import into Flash 8.

Please tell me if there is a more efficient way to do this!

Edit: Sorry, I guess this should be in the Animation software section.

[Pieter]

Which version of Photoshop are you using?

[Bugaloo]

Photoshop CS1

[Pieter]

Well, you could make all the scans layers and animate it in imageready, making it an animated gif. (here's a deviantastic tut: http://jupeboxgal.deviantart.com/art/Tut-Animating-with-ImageReady-21746158 )
That's hardly profesional tough, but afaik there isn't any serious animation feature in Photoshop.
Incase you edit all your frames in the exact same way you could try making it a action to speed things up.
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=434249

Hope this info will give you a bit of a starting point, I don't have much experience with this kind of workflow.

[Katatafisch]

im having a similar problem, a client wants me to animate stuff in photoshop...

the only ways i know to make such stuff is like rubber said import to imageready and make it a gif or
draw(or arrange the scans)every single frame in photoshop(layers are very helpful to see if there is any movement) and then save them as png, jpg or whatever and then import it into flash and make it an swf...

hope that makes sense

[Bugaloo]

Thanks, Rubber! That will work perfectly, because I'm drawing all the frames out by hand and taking a picture, then erasing that frame and drawing over it for the next frame. So all the frames will be drawn out, all I wanted was an easy way to string them all together with minimal editing (just centering them because I can't take perfect pictures everytime xD )
The project was inspired by William Kentridge