Any suggestions on how to "onion skinning"?

[Jim Ault]

change the blending of the snapshot to see if that gets you the contrast or
color reversal or transparency...

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 11/28/07 12:41 PM, "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:19:27 +0000, Ian Wood wrote:
> 
>>>> I'm working on a program with my son that does simple card-based
>>>> animation, but one of the things he asked how to do in Rev stumped me,
>>>> and that is doing an "onion skin"
>>> 
>>> I would try overlaying a translucent screen capture of the prev or next
>>> card.
>> 
>> Agreed. Or do it by taking a snapshot directly from the card - this
>> should work even if it's not the frontmost card.
> 
> The problem with those is that if the card has color in it, the
> translucency is also in color. I was hoping to keep it in
> grayscale/gray.
>