PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

To speed up the animation process:
Creating Animations 159
• Tweening, short for "in-betweening", automatically creates a chosen
number of frames between the currently selected frame and the previous or
next frame. This gives a smoother transition of your animation during
playback and saves you time.
• Set the number of new frames to be created between the next and previous
frames.
• Apply the tweening to just the currently selected layer or all layers.
• Set which frame attributes are to be tweened—choose Position, Opacity
and/or Effects. Position lets you distribute frame objects evenly between next
and previous frames (great for creating motion quickly).
• To clone multiple frames, select (see above) then click the New Frame button.
To clone all frames, right-click the tab and choose Select All then clone.
• Use Reverse Frames on the right-click menu to reverse the order of a series of
selected frames. For example, for bouncing ball animations, create the
animated ball as if it were being dropped, use the above "clone all frame"
technique on all frames, then reverse the newly cloned frames while selected.
You may need to remove the first of the cloned frames because of duplication.
To mirror a frame layer's attributes:
• To mirror the attributes of a frames' layers with respect to Position, Opacity,
Blend Mode, Visibility and Effects, select specific or all frames (see above)
ensuring that the "target" frame which possesses the attribute(s) to be copied is
selected first, then choose Unify Layer Across Frames. All "destination"
frames adopt the layer attributes of the "target" frame.
To delete one or more frames:
• Select the thumbnail(s) and click the Delete Frame button. (To delete a
single frame, you can also right-click it and choose Delete.)
To reposition a frame in the sequence:
• Drag its thumbnail and drop it before or after another frame. Note the black
vertical insertion cursor to indicate the proposed new position of a frame.
To play (preview) the animation:
• Click the Play button.