Creating Animation > Extending still images

Extending still images

When you create a background for animation, it's often necessary to make a still image span several frames. Adding new frames (not keyframes) to a layer extends the contents of the last keyframe in all the new frames.

To extend a still image through multiple frames:

1 Create an image in the first keyframe of the sequence.
2 Select a frame to the right, at the end of the span that you want to add.
3 Choose Insert > Frame.

To use a shortcut to extend still images:

1 Create an image in the first keyframe.
2 Alt-drag the keyframe to the right. This creates a new span, but without a new keyframe at the end point.