How to make smooth photo transitions

Hi,

I've been playing around with this - I just want to do smooth transitions between photos. Seems like it should be simple, and it probably is, but I'm still not pleased with the result.

The easiest way to show what I'm trying to do is give the URL - it's too late to fiddle around trying to show it in this post. www.getstaged2sell.com


I tried fading the image that's leaving, then fading in the image that's next, but it isn't really smooth. There's probably a much easier way, and I'm hoping someone here knows what it is!

Thanks for any ideas.

Kathleen

Hi Kathleen,

One of the ways to do it is have one photo fade in on top of the other. It's not easy to explain but I'll post this swf file then see how best to get the technique across.

Here's a mini tutorial. I hope you can follow it. Don't forget to name each photo before you start!

Here's an attached xar file. I've missed out the frames with just the single photo in them as this aids timing.

Egg!

That's just what I wanted to do! Your sample looks great. I'll study up on the tutorial and the Xar file and see what happens.

Thanks so much for all your help in putting this stuff together!

Kathleen

See also "How To Create A Simple Flash Slideshow"

Regards,
Remi

See also http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest71/

Hello again,

Thanks to all 3 of you! It makes good sense once you know how it's done.

Here's the final version - www.getstaged2sell.com

I don't know what I'd do without this forum. Thanks again for your help.

Kathleen

Looks real professional now Kathleen!:)

Hi Kathleen

The only problem now is the Grey box of Death surrounding the flash when it is moused over.:(
Click below to find a fix.:D


http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...light=grey+box

Aridzone,

This is looking so good, I'm scaring myself!

Thanks again - that fix also helped me with some other sites I'm working on where I didn't think there was a way to get rid of that silly box.

I wish I knew enough to help someone else on this forum, but I certainly do appreciate the advice.

Take care,

Kathleen

Hi Egg,

I have worked out how to do photo fade flash for 3 pictures in Xara, your tutorial is good, but am struggling using 6 pictures (do they have to be even numbers?). I can name the pictures OK, but when I go to "open fram gallery" it get's confusing as to which picture goes where, and then "select frames" is not easy, as you say for three pictures copy #3, #1 and #2 in that order, then they need addidng between the named frames.
Could you give me some advice?
Best regards,
Colin

Hi Colin and welcome to the forums. The problem with creating tutorials is that a month after you've created them you can't remember a thing about them, at least at my age! I'm very busy at the moment but I'll try to get back to you on this one.

If you use the fade in fade out tutorial:
http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest71/

Here is the order for six pictures:

If I were Charles, I would enhance Xara Xtreme with some great assistants, in order to help users with some tasks. The solution above is a good example.

Remi

I guess everyone is using Pro now...? I've still to make that move.. but if this is what folk are making then I better leap across pretty quickly.... it all looks very good.

Here is a fade in fade out I created recently using 7 pictures:D

I've been trying to follow the exact instructions from Egg Bramhill, I even downloaded Egg's file and replicated the steps using different images, but its still not a smooth transition. I've uploaded my Xara file here - can anyone please tell me where I'm going wrong. I've been trying this for weeks and very frustrated!! I dont get the smoothness at all!!!

You needed to name the the 'things' which go through different levels of transparency to get a smooth transition:


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I think I have simplified what you were trying to do in the attached xara file below. You can mess around with the times: at the mo the transition is 3 secs and then each hangs for 3 secs.
You start with the 'post it' so I added a second post-it to the end and named it post-it_1, this way you can just stack them all in order in frame 1 and simply use 100% transparency at each stage of transition. I used 'GoTo' on the last frame, takes it back to frame 2 in this case which keeps the time intervals the same and seamless.


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You needed to name the the 'things' which go through different levels of transparency to get a smooth transition:


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I think I have simplified what you were trying to do in the attached xara file below. You can mess around with the times: at the mo the transition is 3 secs and then each hangs for 3 secs.
You start with the 'post it' so I added a second post-it to the end and named it post-it_1, this way you can just stack them all in order in frame 1 and simply use 100% transparency at each stage of transition. I used 'GoTo' on the last frame, takes it back to frame 2 in this case which keeps the time intervals the same and seamless.


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Thank you so much!! You're a saviour. Your technique is a lot more simpler and straight forward. Thanks a lot!