Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide download pdf (Page 192)

180 Creating Animations

In this file (as in any imported .GIF animation) the individual frames can each

occupy one layer in the PhotoPlus image. This is controlled with the Add Layer to

Each New Frame check box, available by right-clicking the Animation tab. Each

new frame can therefore be edited independently as it occupies its own layer.

On the Layers tab, the layer stack for this animation

corresponds with the frame sequence, with default

names—in this case, the default "Layer 1" through to

"Layer 5". You'll notice the thumbnails correlate between

frame and layer.

If you select Frame 1 on the Animation tab (above), you'll

see that on the Layers tab (left) only the "Layer 1" layer is

marked as shown, with an open-eye button; the other

layers are all hidden, with closed-eye buttons.

If you then select Frame 2, only the "Layer 2" layer will be shown, and the rest

will be hidden. And so on with the other frames.

The above example, with its one-to-one correspondence between frames and

layers, is easy to grasp—but don't make the mistake of thinking that a "frame" is

just another name for a "layer." Frames in PhotoPlus are actually much more

versatile!

Key point: A so-called "frame" is really just a particular state or snapshot of the

various layers in the image, in terms of three layer properties:

Shown/Hidden: Which layers are shown and which are hidden

Position: The position of the contents of each "shown" layer

Opacity: The opacity setting of each "shown" layer

As you switch between frames, you switch between states. In the simple example

above, the six frames define six states in terms of Property 1—each of the six

frames defines a different layer as "shown." We could rearrange the stacking

order of the layers, or rename them—the animation itself wouldn't change.

When you create a new frame on the Animation tab, you're not adding a new

layer. The new frame merely enables you to define a new state of the layers that

already exist. Of course, you could go on and create an additional layer (using

the Layers tab), but then all your animation frames would need to take that layer

into account—in other words, hide it when it wasn't needed.

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