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Using onion skin outlines

Using onion skin outlines

Similar to the Onion Skin feature, the Onion Skin Outlines feature allows you to see the Onion Skin as well as outlines. This is very useful for certain animations. I am going to zoom in here. I'll take a look at this animation of the leg. If I preview the animation, you can see that the leg goes along with the pedals. Now if I wanted to refine this animation at all, for example, to make the knee a more connected on the last frame, I could turn on Onion Skinning. Now, if I am looking at a lot of frames at the same time, it's really hard to tell what's going on. And at the same time, Onion Skin gives me sort of like faded back version of my artwork, which can be really hard to see, especially if you have all of your layers showing. For extra clarity, you can use Onion Skin Outlines. So I'll turn off Onion Skin and then I'll turn on Onion Skin Outlines, which is immediately to the right of the Onion Skin button. Now I just see a simple outline of that graphic. So instead of having to…

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