re: Teach a man to Fish (Fark Board Beginner Questions)

If you open a 50 frame GIF you are going to have 50 animation frames and 50 layers. Each animation frame will correspond to a layer. These will both be in order 1 to 50. In the layers tab, 50 will be the top layer.

If you click on animation frame 1 in the animation tab, only layer 1 in the layer tab will have visibility on. That is indicated by the eye icon. All other layers (2 through 50)will not have the eye icon (visibility off).

If you click on animation frame 2, only layer 2 will have visibility on. Layers 1 and 3 through 50 will be off. This will run like that through all 50 frames.

Now add a text layer and make it the top layer.

Now let's say you want that text to display on the last 20 frames. For animation frames 1 through 30, set visibility off (no eye icon). For animation frames 31-50, set visibility on (eye icon).

Remember, each animation frame will display whatever layers have visibility on. The visibility that shows in the layers tab (eye icons on/off), only applies to the animation frame that is currently highlighted.

If you want to see that in action, scroll your layers tab to the bottom so layer 1 is visible. Now click on animation frame 1 and the eye icon will show on layer 1 and all others will be blank. Click on animation frame 2 and the eye icon will show on layer 2 and all others will be blank.


Let me know if that helps or if that is not how ImageReady is behaving on your end.