
Working with animation and digital videos 799
animating with layers. Adding multiple layers allows you to make more complex
animations.
You can also group layers and move them simultaneously, but be careful. When you
leave a frame, Corel Painter drops the layers in that frame. When a layer is dropped, its
contents are merged with the canvas and can no longer be accessed separately. For this
reason, you may want to work from the background forward; start by animating what’s
farthest from your point of view. For more information, see “Dropping layers with the
canvas” on page 504.
You can also rotate a layer. Rotating a layer can degrade its on-screen image quality, but
this does not affect its printed quality.
To create motion with layers
1 Choose Movie New Movie.
2 Type 1 in the Frames box.
3 In the Enter Movie Name dialog box, choose a location, enter a name for the file,
and click Save.
4 In the New Frame Stack dialog box, enable one of the Layers Of Onion Skin
options.
5 Choose Window Media Library Panels Images.
6 Double-click an item in the Image Portfolio panel to add it to the document
window.
A new layer is created.
7 Position the layer to the far left of the document window.
8 Click the Step Forward button in the Frame Stacks panel.
A new frame is added and becomes the current frame. The layer in the previous
frame is merged with the canvas. In the new, current frame, the layer is active.
9 On the keyboard, press the arrow keys to move the portfolio image.
10 Repeat steps 6 and 7 for as many frames as you want to add.
11 In the last frame, deselect the layer.
12 Click the Play button in the Frame Stacks panel.
The portfolio image moves across the screen.
Scrolling a background is another example of a cycled action. Commonly, a subject
remains in one place while the background slides by.
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