![]() ![]() In the Export Animated GIF box, click Options.If you don’t like what you see, this is only natural, because it’s April and there shouldn’t be any snow… If you like what you see, back in the document, click the Export GIF button. Click the GIF preview button on the Infobar.Repeat Step 6, and in the new frame 3, nudge the snow rectangle 15 pixels down and 2 pixels to the left.Because the default nudge value in Xara Designer is 1 pixel, press the down arrow key 15 times (15 pixels) and 3 nudges (pixels) to the right). Now select the snowy rectangle and use the keyboard arrow keys to nudge the rectangle down and to the right. Click Copy on the Animation Frame Gallery.Click Apply, OK, and you’re back to the animation. Set the duration in the Local Delay area to. ![]() On the Animation Frame Gallery, double click the Frame 1 entry to open the Animation Properties box. Put the snow over the background image.In this animation, anything outside of the page will not be included in the animation. Drag the right, and then the bottom page border so they meet the background image. Move the snowy rectangle off to the pasteboard, and then position the background image at the top left of the page.You’ll see that the background of the document is larger than the background image. In the original document, copy the background scene and the snowy rectangle, then paste both shapes into the new animation document.Make the noisy snow about 120% of the background image.You have your resource files, so it’s time now to get to the animation. On the Infobar, set the Brightness to +100, set the Sharpen/Blur to -4 (blurry and an amazing transformation will take place.So with the snowy rectangle selected, choose the Photo Tool. Now the snow is still a little dirty because Mehdi Eraser Classic couldn’t remove all the black areas.You should delete the Live Effect version of the rectangle and then position this new copy over the scene background. Press Ctrl+Shift+C to make a copy of this snowy rectangle, make sure True Color+Alpha is chosen in the Color Depth field, and then click OK.Click OK, and your rectangle should now look like a fine powdery snowfall. Zoom way into your composition and you want white to be the target color so click over a white area in the rectangle, or select white by clicking the color swatch to go to the system color picker. Choose the Live Effects button on the Toolbox again, and then choose New> Mehdi>Eraser Classic.Making a copy frees up this copy for editing and you can delete the original at any time. Because Live Effects are dynamic, it’s impossible to edit the bitmap itself as a noisy rectangle. ![]() ![]()
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