Our labs at school got the updated Adobe Suite (which now includes Flash), and I finally had a chance to really mess around with some of the new features in Photoshop CS3. One feature in particular really got me excited: Timeline Mode.

For those who edit video, timeline mode will probably look like a lame iteration of After Effects. However, coupled with onion-skinning and video layers, the timeline mode in PS CS3 presents some 2-d animation opportunities that could arguably induce salivation.

Basically you can import video as a layer and create empty video layers in much the same way that you would import an image and create regular empty layers. The main difference between a regular layer and a video layer being that the image on video layer is linked to the position on the timeline (no more making gif animations with a layer for each frame!!). So now hand-rendering animation, video, 3-D animation, or even other rough 2-D animation is easy- all of those familiar photoshop tools functioning over a timeline.

Here is a quick ball-bounce I made using the timeline mode in Photoshop CS3:
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