Title: Crossfade question ?
Last modified: December 18, 2023

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# Crossfade question ?

 *  Resolved [daveporter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveporter/)
 * (@daveporter)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crossfade-question/)
 * Hi there,
 * I have seen crossfade work previously, but sometimes I don’t see any difference
   between normal fade and crossfade.
 * Is there a trick to get it to work ?
 * TIA, Dave

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 *  Plugin Support [Robert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertnextendweb/)
 * (@robertnextendweb)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crossfade-question/#post-17285773)
 * Hi [@daveporter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveporter/)!
 * The difference between the fade and crossfade animations is that in case of fade,
   the next background image will be displayed over the current one, whereas for
   the crossfade, the first fades out while the next fades in. By default the background
   of the slider is transparent, and if you have a light background behind the slider
   and you are fading a light image, then you will not see that effect very well
   compared to a darker image.
 * The duration and the easing are related to the main animation:
   [https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1779-slider-settings-animations](https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1779-slider-settings-animations)
   but if you have these on default, then these have not been changed since their
   release, so there isn’t much to set here. You could try using a more optimized
   image as well, perhaps the issue is that you have too big of an image and the
   browser doesn’t have enough memory to handle the switch.

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