Open a multilayer animation – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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Video and animation
Last updated 1/10/2010
Onion skin settings specify how previous and later frames appear when Onion Skins are enabled in the Animation
panel. (See “
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Open the Animation panel menu and choose Onion Skin Settings.
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Specify options for the following:
Onion Skin Count
Specifies how many previous and forward frames are displayed. Enter the Frames Before (previous
frames) and Frames After (forward frames) values in the text boxes.
Frame Spacing
Specifies the number of frames between the displayed frames. For example, a value of 1 displays
consecutive frames, and a value of 2 displays strokes that are two frames apart.
Max Opacity
Sets the percentage of opacity for the frames immediately before and after the current time.
Min Opacity
Sets the percentage of opacity for the last frames of the before and after sets of onion-skin frames.
Blend Mode
Sets the appearance of the areas where the frames overlap.
Onion skinning
A. Current frame with one frame after B. Current frame with both one frame before and after C. Current frame with one frame before
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Open a multilayer animation
You can open animations that were saved in older versions of Photoshop as multilayer Photoshop (PSD) files. The
layers are placed in the Animation panel in their stacking order, with the bottom layer becoming the first frame.
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Choose File
> Open, and select the Photoshop file to open.
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