# Quick ? -- what is this effect called?

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**Created:** [August 6, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-what-is-this-effect-called/312557 "2010-08-06T12:56:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![somdow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@somdow](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/somdow)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-what-is-this-effect-called/312557/1 "2010-08-06T12:56:23Z")

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and by effect i mean,

when a button image is clicked the page goes black or dimms down and a box animates on screen with the bigger vrs of clicked image…

like this  
[http://www.alessandro-cavallo.de/](http://www.alessandro-cavallo.de/)

also can it be done with movies?

thanks in advanced. id google it but again, have no idea what it is or what its called.