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User Guide
• Choose Layer > Frame Blending > Pixel Motion.
A check mark by the appropriate Frame Blending command (Frame Mix or Pixel Motion) indicates that it is applied
to the selected layer. Also, the Frame Blending switch
appears in the Switches column for the layer in the Timeline
panel. Remove frame blending either by clicking the Frame Blending switch or by choosing the appropriate Frame
Blending command again.
Regardless of the state of the layer switches, if frame blending is off for the composition, it is off for all layers in the
composition. You set frame blending for the composition by choosing Enable Frame Blending from the Timeline
panel menu, or clicking the Enable Frame Blending button
at the top of the Timeline panel.
See also
"About animation, keyframes, and expressions" on page 185
"Layer image quality" on page 154
"Timewarp effect" on page 531
Animating with Puppet tools
About the Puppet tools
Use the Puppet tools to quickly add natural motion to raster images and vector graphics, including still images,
shapes, and text characters.
Note: Though the Puppet tools work within an effect (the Puppet effect), you will seldom need to apply the effect using
the Effect menu or the Effects & Presets panel. Use the Puppet tools in the Tools panel to directly apply and work with
the effect in the Layer panel or Composition panel.
The Puppet effect works by deforming part of an image according to the positions of pins that you place and move.
These pins define what parts of the image should move, what parts should remain rigid, and what parts should be in
front when parts overlap.
Each Puppet tool is used to place and modify a specific kind of pin:
Use this tool to place and move Deform pins.
Puppet Pin tool
Use this tool to place Overlap pins, which indicate which parts of an image should appear
Puppet Overlap tool
in front of others when distortion causes parts of the image to overlap one another.
Use this tool to place Starch pins, which stiffen parts of the image so that they are distorted less.
Puppet Starch tool
Puppet mesh created by placing Deform pins (left), and result of dragging a Deform pin
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