# Shadow?

**URL:** <https://discuss.pencil2d.org/t/shadow/1374>\
**Category:** Help and Advice\
**Created:** [27 January 2018 05:16 UTC](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/t/shadow/1374 "2018-01-27T05:16:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![computerdudegio](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/user_avatar/discuss.pencil2d.org/computerdudegio/32/106_2.png) [@computerdudegio](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/u/computerdudegio)\
**Post date:** [27 January 2018 05:16 UTC](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/t/shadow/1374/1 "2018-01-27T05:16:59Z")

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Every time I click new key frame the shadow/outline from the previous frame doesn’t carry over. I’m unable to see what I drew in the frame before unless I actually go back and look at that frame. Can someone please help?

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**Author:** ![JoseMoreno](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/user_avatar/discuss.pencil2d.org/josemoreno/32/7_2.png) [@JoseMoreno](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/u/JoseMoreno)\
**Post date:** [27 January 2018 17:26 UTC](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/t/shadow/1374/2 "2018-01-27T17:26:16Z")

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@computerdudegio Hi. Umm you have to enable the onion skin function. You can use the menu \> VIEW \> Onion Skin \> Previous Frame. You can also see the shortcut there.

If it’s still not working go to view \> preferences \> tools and review if the onion skin settings are correct. Like how many frames it covers and how much transparency it shows.

There’s also a set of buttons in the display panel that allow you to activate the onion skin “ghost”, as well as tint it.

You have to be careful if you are using a full image you imported because the onion skin will consider all the pixels in a frame, not only the lines you draw, so it’s recommended you draw separate lines on a different layer if you are using an image as reference (i.e put simply, don’t draw on an imported image but draw on a different layer)

The “onion skin” button in the timeline DOES NOT activate onion skin, it’s used to change the behavior of the onion skin to show previous/next frames (only keyframes) vs previous/next drawings (all frames)

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**Author:** ![computerdudegio](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/user_avatar/discuss.pencil2d.org/computerdudegio/32/106_2.png) [@computerdudegio](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/u/computerdudegio)\
**Post date:** [30 January 2018 05:04 UTC](https://discuss.pencil2d.org/t/shadow/1374/3 "2018-01-30T05:04:12Z")

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wow, thank you. I will try that.