The Monkeyjam Problem

We already knew that the Mac computers at Coleridge do not have the program we normally use for stop motion tasks called 'istopmotion', which is inbuilt to the Mac computers at Long Road. As this was our final day to work on the project, this was a serious problem. It's possible to animate in Photoshop but none of us or the class were entirely sure how to do so. I had an idea to use the program I use at home for this task called Monkeyjam, and it was all prepared that we would use that program. However, when we actually got to the point of trying to download Monkeyjam at Coleridge, we found out that the program is designed only for Windows. We solved this problem eventually by downloading a trial version of istopmotion from online, but it had a watermark on each of the frames so we had to remember to crop all of them. This cost us quite a lot of time as we rendered the final version once and then noticed that we hadn't quite got all of it as one of the keyframes made the cropping wipe away to reveal the watermark again.