Specify onion skin settings (Photoshop Extended)

Onion skin mode displays content drawn on the current frame plus content drawn on the surrounding frames. These additional frames appear at the opacity you specify to distinguish them from the current frame. Onion skin mode is useful for drawing frame-by-frame animations because it gives you reference points for stroke positions and other edits.

Onion skin settings specify how previous and later frames appear when Onion Skins are enabled in the Animation panel. (See Animation panel overview.)

  1. Open the Animation panel menu and choose Onion Skin Settings.
  2. Specify options for the following:
    Onion Skin Count
    Specifies how many previous and forward frames are displayed. Enter the Frames Before (previous frames) and Frames After (forward frames) values in the text boxes.

    Frame Spacing
    Specifies the number of frames between the displayed frames. For example, a value of 1 displays consecutive frames, and a value of 2 displays strokes that are two frames apart.

    Max Opacity
    Sets the percentage of opacity for the frames immediately before and after the current time.

    Min Opacity
    Sets the percentage of opacity for the last frames of the before and after sets of onion‑skin frames.

    Blend Mode
    Sets the appearance of the areas where the frames overlap.

    Onion skinning

    A.
    Current frame with one frame after

    B.
    Current frame with both one frame before and after

    C.
    Current frame with one frame before