You can use Photoshop Extended to edit individual frames of video and image sequence files. In addition to using any Photoshop tool to edit and paint on video, you can also apply filters, masks, transformations, layers styles, and blending modes. After making edits, you can save the document as a PSD file (that can be played back in other Adobe applications such as Premiere Pro and After Effects or accessed as a static file in other applications), or you can render it as a QuickTime movie or image sequence.

When you open a video file or image sequence in Photoshop Extended, the frames are contained within a video layer. In the Layers palette, a video layer is identified with a filmstrip icon . Video layers let you paint and clone on individual frames using the brush tools and stamp tools. Like working with regular layers, you can create selections or apply masks to restrict your edits to specific areas of a frame. You navigate through the frames using the timeline mode in the Animation palette (Window > Animation).

You work with video layers just like regular layers by adjusting the blending mode, opacity, position, and layer style. You can also group video layers in the Layers palette. Adjustment layers let you apply color and tonal adjustments nondestructively to the video layers. A video layer references the original file, so that edits to the video layer don’t alter the original video or image sequence file.

If you prefer to make your frame edits on a separate layer, you can create a blank video layer. Blank video layers also let you create hand-drawn animations.

For a video on working with video layers, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0027.