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Flash Kids' Corner: Draw A Halloween Jack o'Lantern

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If you look on the Timeline, you’ll see that each layer has a list of frames—units of time on which you can draw new pictures, or keep the same one for as long or as little as you want. If you see a black dot on the frame, it means that there’s a shape drawn on that frame; if you see solid grey, then it means that the same shape is holding its position over those frames.

We want to make the pumpkin dark sometimes, but lit at other times, so we need to move beyond one frame. Click on the black dot in the first frame where you drew your pumpkin, then click the right mouse button to open a menu. Look for Copy Frames on that menu, and left-click on it.

Click your mouse on a blank frame further down the timeline—say, on Frame 10. (You can see the numbers at the top, where the red line is.) Right-click to open the menu, then left-click on Paste Frames. You’ll see a new black dot appear, and everything that you drew on that layer will show up on your movie.

Do this again on every layer that you’ve drawn.

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