How to make smooth photo transitions

**MktgGeek** · 22 October 2007, 05:01 AM

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

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 October 2007, 03:38 PM

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.

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 October 2007, 03:58 PM

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

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 October 2007, 04:30 PM

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

**MktgGeek** · 22 October 2007, 05:33 PM

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

**remi** · 23 October 2007, 11:58 AM

See also "How To Create A Simple Flash Slideshow"

Regards,
Remi

**varaloba** · 11 March 2008, 01:11 PM

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

**Egg Bramhill** · 12 March 2008, 12:16 AM

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.