Pasting Into Animated PSD

I am a newbie to Photoshop CS2...it came with the used computer I
bought so I figured I'd bone up from v5.0 or whatever the last version
I learned was.

I have an animation set up: 'n' frames, 'n' layers. My intention is to
paste an object into one frame and one frame only. Every time I hit
cmd-V, though, the pasted object appears in every frame. If I move
around the layer created by the pasted object, the move shows up only
in the active frame. Merging the paste layer with the frame's layer
doesn't do anything to remove the object from the other n-1 frames.

Surely there's a logic to getting it to appear in only one frame, but
Photoshop Help isn't making its case.

Thanks!

<spamguy21.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1172032681.748174.232040@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com...
>I am a newbie to Photoshop CS2...it came with the used computer I
> bought so I figured I'd bone up from v5.0 or whatever the last version
> I learned was.
>
> I have an animation set up: 'n' frames, 'n' layers. My intention is to
> paste an object into one frame and one frame only. Every time I hit
> cmd-V, though, the pasted object appears in every frame. If I move
> around the layer created by the pasted object, the move shows up only
> in the active frame. Merging the paste layer with the frame's layer
> doesn't do anything to remove the object from the other n-1 frames.
>
> Surely there's a logic to getting it to appear in only one frame, but
> Photoshop Help isn't making its case.
>
> Thanks!

you are using IMAGE READY???
make a layered document in PS, pasting your frames on separate layers
then switch to IR
select frame one
turn off the eyeball on the layers you don't want to show in that frame
continue frame by frame
(you can change many frames at once by shift click)