Creating a new layer while animating creates a static layer

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When I add a new layer and put a red mark on it on one of the frames, the red mark is on all the frames. I saw something else about creating a blank frame or inserting a keyframe to make the layer animated, but that didn’t work
(Krita 5.2.3)

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Hello @worme and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

The layer called ‘test’ is not static. It is animated as can be seen from the small icon to the left of its name in the Layers docker.

When you put content onto frame-1, that content is ‘held’ for all future frames and that is indicated by a horizontal blue line along the centre of the Timeline for that layer. Those are called Hold Frames because they ‘hold’ the content of the previous keyframe.
You can see that Paint Layer 1 has a similar blue line from frame-4 onwards.

For the ‘test’ layer, if you don’t want the content of frame-1 to be held into the future, click on frame-2 to select it then do right-click → Create Blank Frame.
That will stop the repetition (holding) of frame-1 along the Timeline.

Edit:Add: I’ve changed the category of your topic because you are asking for support and advice. Please choose a suitable category for your topics in future.

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That worked, thank you so much for your help!

Sorry about not putting the right category, I’ll do that next time