Why do my color images turn gray when I import then into FlipBooks foreground levels?
A. FlipBook foreground levels are designed for the traditional ink & paint process of animation where you start with pencil lines and then paint inside the characters leaving the outside part of the images transparent to allow other levels and the background to show through. This requires the files to be in a 32-bit format with an alpha channel to define the areas of transparency. Without that alpha channel the only other thing FlipBook could do with a color image would be to make the entire image opaque, which wouldn’t make any sense. So we give you two options. The default is to convert the image the grayscale to accommodate the ink & paint process. But there is an option to automatically add an alpha channel and make all of the white areas in the image transparent. The process of making part of an image transparent is called keying and in animation these types of images are called overlays. If you put a check in the overlay box then you will get an option to set how much of the whit
