Would like to "flip" a single layer on a slide

FotoMagico
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Been away from FM for a little while but now working on a new slideshow. And, I’m always trying to push the app beyond what it normally can do. I’ve got a number of “requests” that probably nobody else needs, but here goes anyway :wink:

  1. The “Flip” Transition only works from slide to slide. That is, the entire slide flips. I’m working on something new where I’d like to flip a single layer on one slide, and where the rest of the layers stay untouched. Could that be added, maybe in the Effects sub-menu of the “Image” section? Along with controls like flipping left, right, up, and down?

  2. The “Flip” Transition appears visually to be a 3-D flip (that is, where one side appears to “shrink” as it “rotates” to the rear and behind and the other side appears to “grow” as it rotates in the other direction to the front. I would like to see a “flip” where the image just spins around its vertical axis without that 3-D effect – in other words, it would basically look like the left side just rotates or moves to the center and finishes on the right, while the right side just moves to the center and finishes on the left – straight across, with the resulting image flipped. It would like like compressing the image from each side and then reconstituting the image as the effect is reversed at the end of the flip. I tried doing that by moving two temporary “black” layers left and right across the background image, but the image itself doesn’t appear to rotate – it just gets covered and revealed. Can this be added as a new transition?

  1. Could the Layer > Mirrored function be changed to allow for mirroring both left and right and up and down? Right now it’s just left and right.

  2. Maybe the flipping described above could be achieved with the “Mirrored” function being tied in with being used on a slide with Animation enabled (so layer starts, say, facing left to right at the Start and ends up facing right to left at the End).

These all seem like geometry problems and I don’t know how difficult it is to incorporate the code to do these, but I’d appreciate your taking a look and letting me know.

Thanks, Peter and Oliver :slight_smile:

Stan

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In addition to Stan’s suggestions, I think it would be good to

5. Include rotation around the z-axis in the geometric properties of individual slides (or videos), in addition to zoom and rotation along the x- and y-axes—in other words, it should be possible to spin them.

Achim