You can use this dialog to create an animation effect from one or two images.
Caution! The source images used to create an animation effect are those images that are displayed in the image display window when the "Show Active Image" check box is left unchecked. From the menu, select "View"->"Show Active Image Only."
When you have only one image with which to create an animation, the selected image will be used as the start image. The same image, to which an effect has been applied, is used as the end image.
In this case, you can replace the start image with the end image by clicking the [Swap Start Image and End Image] button, depending on the type of effect that you want to apply.
When you want to use two images to create an animation, the selected image will be used as the start image. The image subsequent to the selected image will be used as the end image.
In this case, if you are working from an original animation that has only one image frame, or if there is no image frame subsequent to the selected image frame, a transparent image is used as the end image.
Hint For an animation effect that uses only one image, is
displayed.
[Start Image]
Displays the start image of an animation effect.
[Preview]
Displays a preview of an animation effect.
Start the preview by clicking the button.
[End Image]
The end image of an animation effect is displayed.
[Effect Settings] group
You can select any of the following effects.
Wipe(Up->Down, Down->Up, Right->Left, Left->Right, In->Out, Out->In)
Rectangular Wipe (In->Uut, Out->In)
Mosaic Wipe (Regular, Random)
Scroll (Up->Down, Down->Up, Right->Left, Left->Right)
Rotate (Clockwise, Counterclockwise)
[Time] edit box
Sets the duration of an animation effect. You can set any duration between one and five seconds.
[Number of Frames] edit box
Sets the number of frames that are to be created. The range of values that can be set differs with the size of the image and the type of effect.
[Swap Start Image and End Image] button
Displayed when you select, as the effect type, [Blur], [Vortex], [Tile], [Mosaic], [Noise], [Oil Painting], [Scatter], [Pinch], [Center Focus], [Zoom], [Gray Scale], [Bilevel], [Sepia], or [Half Tone].
When you click this button, the start image of the effect is replaced with the end image.
[OK] button
Clicking this button creates an animation effect and adds a created frame to the original animation.
Caution! All images created with the animation effect tool use local palettes.