Onion skin

Onion skin is a function in which the cels before and after the selected cel are also shown on the canvas at the same time.

Enable onion skin

To display the onion skin, select the Animation menu > Show animation cels > Onion skin settings or tap Enable onion skin on the Timeline palette.

The onion skin shown depends on the timeline settings.

When the timeline is enabled, the cels before and after the selected cel on the Timeline palette are displayed as onion skin.The cels above and below the selected cel on the Layer palette are displayed as onion skin.

Tap Enable onion skin again to hide the onion skin.

You can edit the display color and number of cels shown in the onion skin in the Animation menu > Show animation cels > Onion skin settings dialog.

Onion skin settings

You can set the display color and number of cels displayed by the onion skin from the Animation menu > Show animation cels > Onion skin settings.

(1)Number of views

Set the number of cels to be displayed as onion skin.You can set different values for the cels before and after the current cel.

(2)Color mode

You can set the color mode to Color, Half color, or Monochrome. In Color mode, the cels and layers are displayed in their original colors.In Half color mode, the colors set for Previous frame and Next frame are combined with the colors of the cels.In Monochrome mode, the colors of the cels are changed to grayscale and replaced with the colors set for Previous frame and Next frame.

(3)Display color

The display colors of the onion skins can be changed by setting the color mode to Half color or Monochrome. You can set the color of the frames before and after the current frame using the Previous frame and Next frame color indicators.Clicking the color indicators opens the Color settings dialog box, where you can choose a color.

(4)Specify opacity level

Turn this on to set the opacity of the onion skins.

(5)Opacity

The opacity of the onion skins can be set in Start. If using multiple skins, specify a value for Step opacity to show each additional frame with the opacity reduced by the specified increment.