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4. The Screen Setup of PhotoLine

## 4.30 Animate

Animate can be used to create or edit classic image-based animations. In this type of animation, each layer of the document becomes a single frame of the animation, similar to a flip book

Such animations can be saved as GIF, PNG, or WebP and used on a web page.

By default PhotoLine shows a preview of the animation in the document window in addition to the preview in the animate dialog. If you don't want this. you can turn off the document preview in the window menu. The window menu also allows you to export the frames of the animation as separate files.

The play buttons can be used to switch between the frames of the animation or to play the animation in real time.

There are three settings for each frame.

The first is the display duration of the current frame. It is specified in milliseconds (ms).

The second is the display mode. This controls what happens to the animation after the duration of the current frame has expired. There are three options:

- Normal
Nornal will leave the animation unchanged.
- Delete
With Delete, the animation in the area of the frame is deleted. If the animation has transparency, the area is made transparent, otherwise it is deleted with the background color.
- Reset
Reset resets the animation to the appearance it had before the frame was displayed.

The third setting is the mix mode. This controls how the current frame is displayed in the animation and has a similar meaning to the mix mode in PhotoLine layers. There are two possibilities. Because of the way they work, the mix only has an effect if the current frame has transparency.

- Replace
The frame overwrites the existing animation in its area, including transparency.
- Mix
The frame is output "normally". Where it is transparent, it does not change the existing animation.

When multiple layers are selected, changes to the settings are applied to the entire selection.