Harmony 22 Premium Documentation: Onion Skin View Menu

Command	Description
Advanced Onion Skin	Enables Advanced Onion Skin. Advanced Onion Skin allows you to select, on the fly, which drawings to include in your Onion Skin, even if those drawings are not consecutive drawings, as well as the opacity scales for the drawings before and after the current frame. The controls for selecting which drawings to display in the Onion Skin as well as their opacity sliders are only accessible when Advanced Onion Skin is enabled. Otherwise, when using regular Onion Skin, the opacity of drawings in the Onion Skin is determined by the Onion Skin settings in the Preferences dialog. The amount of drawings to include in the Onion Skin is set using the Onion Skin Add / Reduce One Previous Drawng and Onion Skin Add / Reduce One Next Drawing commands, available in the Camera and Drawing toolbars as well as in View > Onion Skin in the top menu.
Original Colors	Displays the onion skin using the actual colours of the drawings.
Coloured	Displays the onion skin using the colours selected for the previous and next drawings in the Onion Skin view.
Coloured Outlines	Displays the onion skin using the colours selected for the previous and next drawings, but only as outlines instead of filled shapes.
Onion Skin by Frames	Selects the drawings to display in the Onion Skin by the amount of different drawings before and after the current frame. For example, if the Onion Skin is set to include 2 drawings before and after the current frame, this will display the nearest two different drawings before and after the drawing in the current frame in the Onion Skin, even if those drawings are further than 2 frames away from the current frame. This is more useful for frame-by-frame animation. NOTE When this option is enabled, the handles allowing you to adjust the extent of the Onion Skin in the Timeline view are not available.
Onion Skin by Drawings	Selects the drawings to display in the Onion Skin by the amount of different drawings before and after the current frame. For example, if the Onion Skin is set to include 2 drawings before and after the current frame, this will display the nearest two different drawings before and after the drawing in the current frame in the Onion Skin, even if those drawings are further than 2 frames away from the current frame. This is more useful for frame-by-frame animation. NOTE When this option is enabled, the handles allowing you to adjust the extent of the Onion Skin in the Timeline view are not available.
Apply Colour Wash	Displays onion skins with a lighter, less saturated colour. The further away the drawing is from the current frame, the more washed its colour appears. NOTE The minimum and maximum colour wash values for Onion Skin can be customized in the Drawing tab of the Preferences dialog.
Enable Onion Skin for Other Elements	In the Drawing View, when the Light Table is enabled, making other layers visible alongside the current layer, this will make the Onion Skin for other visible layers appear alongside the Onion Skin for the current layer. Drawings for elements above the current layer will appear in blue, and drawings for elements below will appear in yellow. NOTE The drawings from other elements that get displayed in the Onion Skin are the drawings that are exposed at the same time as the drawings displayed in the current layer's Onion Skin.
Link Sliders	When enabled, the opacity sliders in the Onion Skin view will move simultaneously as you adjust one of them, so that the opacity levels for previous and next drawings progresses from the opacity level of the first drawing to the opacity level of the last drawing. When this mode is enabled, you can adjust the first and last sliders for previous or next drawings, then, optionally, adjust a single one of the sliders in-between to create a segmented progression. However, if you want to make the opacity of Onion Skin drawings to vary in any way that is more complex, you must disable this option.

Advanced Onion Skin

Enables Advanced Onion Skin. Advanced Onion Skin allows you to select, on the fly, which drawings to include in your Onion Skin, even if those drawings are not consecutive drawings, as well as the opacity scales for the drawings before and after the current frame.

The controls for selecting which drawings to display in the Onion Skin as well as their opacity sliders are only accessible when Advanced Onion Skin is enabled. Otherwise, when using regular Onion Skin, the opacity of drawings in the Onion Skin is determined by the Onion Skin settings in the Preferences dialog. The amount of drawings to include in the Onion Skin is set using the Onion Skin Add / Reduce One Previous Drawng and Onion Skin Add / Reduce One Next Drawing commands, available in the Camera and Drawing toolbars as well as in View > Onion Skin in the top menu.

Original Colors

Displays the onion skin using the actual colours of the drawings.

Coloured

Displays the onion skin using the colours selected for the previous and next drawings in the Onion Skin view.

Coloured Outlines

Displays the onion skin using the colours selected for the previous and next drawings, but only as outlines instead of filled shapes.

Onion Skin by Frames

Selects the drawings to display in the Onion Skin by the amount of different drawings before and after the current frame. For example, if the Onion Skin is set to include 2 drawings before and after the current frame, this will display the nearest two different drawings before and after the drawing in the current frame in the Onion Skin, even if those drawings are further than 2 frames away from the current frame. This is more useful for frame-by-frame animation.

NOTE When this option is enabled, the handles allowing you to adjust the extent of the Onion Skin in the Timeline view are not available.

Onion Skin by Drawings

Selects the drawings to display in the Onion Skin by the amount of different drawings before and after the current frame. For example, if the Onion Skin is set to include 2 drawings before and after the current frame, this will display the nearest two different drawings before and after the drawing in the current frame in the Onion Skin, even if those drawings are further than 2 frames away from the current frame. This is more useful for frame-by-frame animation.

NOTE When this option is enabled, the handles allowing you to adjust the extent of the Onion Skin in the Timeline view are not available.

Apply Colour Wash

Displays onion skins with a lighter, less saturated colour. The further away the drawing is from the current frame, the more washed its colour appears.

NOTE The minimum and maximum colour wash values for Onion Skin can be customized in the Drawing tab of the Preferences dialog.

Enable Onion Skin for Other Elements

In the Drawing View, when the Light Table is enabled, making other layers visible alongside the current layer, this will make the Onion Skin for other visible layers appear alongside the Onion Skin for the current layer. Drawings for elements above the current layer will appear in blue, and drawings for elements below will appear in yellow.

NOTE The drawings from other elements that get displayed in the Onion Skin are the drawings that are exposed at the same time as the drawings displayed in the current layer's Onion Skin.

Link Sliders

When enabled, the opacity sliders in the Onion Skin view will move simultaneously as you adjust one of them, so that the opacity levels for previous and next drawings progresses from the opacity level of the first drawing to the opacity level of the last drawing.

When this mode is enabled, you can adjust the first and last sliders for previous or next drawings, then, optionally, adjust a single one of the sliders in-between to create a segmented progression.

However, if you want to make the opacity of Onion Skin drawings to vary in any way that is more complex, you must disable this option.