# Help with creating a fade-in effect

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 29, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-creating-a-fade-in-effect/211282 "2006-12-29T14:58:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![imhotep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@imhotep](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imhotep)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-creating-a-fade-in-effect/211282/1 "2006-12-29T14:58:02Z")

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I would like to create a slide-show that automatically starts playing when my website loads. After looking through several libraries of online Flash tutorials, I haven’t found one that tells me how to do the exact thing I’m looking to learn. There are probably many ways to create slide-shows, but I want mine to use simple fades from image to image. Here are the specifics of what I want the end result to be:

The slide-show will start playing automatically when my webpage loads.

The first image in the sequence will fade-in from solid white. After displaying for say 3 seconds, this first image will fade-out to solid white.

Every successive image will fade-in and fade-out in the same manner.

I may decide that I would rather “cross-fade” the images instead of fading them all in and out to white, but that will come later.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am not an experienced Flash user yet, so hopefully I can understand the terminology and instructions as they come at me 🙂