Author: hlee, Contributing Editor

Extra notes for the curious: > Here we have two frames from our previous animation (the images are from layers 1 and 5, in that order.) You'll observe that it's missing a few frames in between. Obviously it the result won't be as smooth, but in some cases you can use the Motion Tween function to make the transition a little less jagged. The Motion Tween button is left of the Duplicate Frame button (the one with several little circles fading.)

The following dialog will appear:

Unchecking the Opacity box probably works better if all your images have a common background, i.e. all the layers above the first layer have a transparent background. Leaving the Opacity box checked means you want the background to change from one frame to the next -- good for a kind of fade-in effect with two different images. Examples below:

This sequence produces:

... while this sequence gives:

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