# Onion skin effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-effect/26048>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-effect/26048 "2003-07-18T21:15:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Yeldarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/51bf81/32.png) [@Yeldarb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yeldarb)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-effect/26048/1 "2003-07-18T21:15:57Z")

</div>

is there an easy way to make an onion skin effect besides drawing things over and over w/ different transperancys, like an action script or something?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-effect/26048/2 "2003-07-18T21:45:38Z")

</div>

u can actionscript it with duplicateMovieclip function. Then adjust transparent (\_alpha) for each MC duplicated.