Blending image in effect : advice needed

Hi,
Thanks to everyone who has offered help and advice so far.I'm back with another question.

I'd like to "blend" an image in.Imagine a white background and the image appearing on the screen gradually, perhaps in 1 or 2 seconds.Alot of games have intros like this where the logo blends into the screen. Any tips on how to achieve this effect ? Thanks in advance.

use SetBlend(ALPHABLEND) then SetAlpha and increment it by 0.05 or so each frame?

Yeah. Look at the sample "oldskool2" for one way to acheive an effect like this (although it fades to black, but changing it to white is really pretty much a no-brainer).

The relevant code is reproduced below:

SetBlend ALPHABLEND
SetAlpha term
SetColor 0,0,0
DrawRect 0,0,640,480
SetAlpha 1
SetColor 255,255,255

The variable "term", is a float that slowly moves from 0 -> 1 as the program dies.