Frames

How to use Frames?

Often times you will need to shuffle the order of frames.

You can do this by dragging the frame boxes in the Timeline with the mouse.

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Onion Skin

Onion Skin allows you to see more than one frame at the same time.

This makes it easier to draw a new frame between 2 frames in the animation.

To enable Onion Skin you must first turn on Frame Transparency for All Frames:

Then click the Onion Skin button.

You can select 3 different options using the drop down arrow next to the button.

Back Frame - View the Previous Frame and Current Frame.

Next Frame - View the Current Frame, and Next Frame.

Both - View the Previous Frame, Current Frame, and Next Frame.

Loop the first and last Frame

It is useful to be able to go from the Last Frame to the First Frame when moving thru an animation.
You must enable a special option from the Preferences window to do this.


This option also works with Onion Skin. -> This is incorrect. Its a different option box. Need to update this text.
You can see the first Frame as the Next with the last Frame selected.
And the last Frame as the Prev with the first Frame selected.

Reverse an Animation?

Sometimes you will need to reverse the order of many frames.

Select the range of frames:

Copy:

The select the last frame and then use Paste to Right:

The pasted frames will appear to the right but will not be selected.
Re select the range of pasted frames and then use Reverse.

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