You may want to take a look at Andrew Cramer’s tutorial Earth Zoom here: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=15 to see how it’s done. It’s what you are looking for but in reverse. You can reverse once you understand what he was doing. Not sure where he got his footage from, ask him or his permission to use his footage 🙂
What version of Photoshop do you have? Easiest way, if you lucky to own Photoshop CS3 Extended, just import your footage and apply High Pass either to entire sequence or separate frames, that’s it.
There are a number of reasons for it but first that comes on my mind: building your project you used some new futures that CS3 supports and CS2 doesn’t or used plug-ins installed on your friend’s copy of AE that you don’t have, but in this case you should get warning message on opening your project. Did you get any message? What it says?
Another two considerations may be footage that linked to your project and cross-platform incompatibility for some file types between Windows and MAC. I recommend you to check an article in CS3 Help called “Cross-platform project considerations” and make sure you followed all the rules.
Hope it helps.
First, import your photos in composition window, select all of them and then drag the last one on “Create new comp” button. Dialog window will pop-up where you can adjust all the properties like duration of each photo will be shown, duration of dissolve etc.
For details go to: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=48 where everything explained very well (Adrew Cramer`s tutorial “Elegant Slideshow”).
Hope it helps.