Zoom feature -- background bitmap only?

[JudyH]

Your help states,

"You can add a zoom effect to an object in a frame. This creates a 3D effect that magnifies (and therefore emphasizes) a specific area in a frame so that it appears closer than the rest of the frame."

I'd like to do just that -- but I haven't been able to get any of those features (shade, grayscale, blur, zoom) to work unless I'm selecting an area on a frame's background bitmap. I use blank frames and place small bitmaps within; I rarely use background bitmaps.

Your help indicates that zoom should still work -- my bitmaps are objects in a frame. But all I get is an empty zoom frame. Am I missing something?

[SteveS]

The zoon effect is one of the effect modes - its in the dropdown list. Once you click the zoom effect drag the mouse over the area you want to magnify. Select and open properties for the zoomed area and you can change the offset and magnification to fine tune the effect.

Shadow/ blur/ greyscale all rely on a something like a circle or box being set up on your capture. When you apply the effect to a shape everything outside the shape has the effect. I haven't used it in Mimic, but just did a quick test to make sure I could apply the effects the same way as in Capture, which i could.

HTH

[JudyH]

Thanks, Steve, but that doesn't address my question.

I know what the zoom feature is, and I can get it to work -- against a background bitmap only. Mimic's own help states,

You can add a zoom effect to an object in a frame."

This does not appear to be true. I cannot apply the zoom feature to an object placed within a frame. I can apply the zoom only to a portion of a bitmap serving as the background image for the frame.

Have you been able to apply a zoom effect to an object placed in a frame?