Animation by Granny-Wicked

ANIMATION ON THE INTERNET

Your first moving 'GIF'
"Basic" animation, using
Paint Shop Pro7:
To make a series of 12 Box images, 6 of which are filled using the same color for the edges and 6 non-filled.

PLEASE NOTE: All of the comments and items listed in COLORS are for you to use to make the animation box work using a specific version of the Paint Shop Pro program

In Paint Shop Pro version 7 you are able to create images by using a Roaster or Vector method. I would suggest creating both types, to help you to understand the Vector side of the program.

PSP #7 screen

Open A New Image 100 x 100 pixel White background 72 dpi 16 million color	TOOL OPTIONS - PRESET SHAPE TOOL (PSP #7) Preselect your colors before you make your square Select Square (see item B) - Uncheck retain style Designate line width style (if you have selected to uncheck retain style) Increasing line size by 2 each time you make a new Box) Click the Preset tools Options and use the following settings: Miter line join and Miter limit 1
If you choose to experiment with Vectors (PSP # 7 only) :
Open an new area 100 x 100 Pixels White Background 72 dpi 16 million color	Select Square (see Item B) leave retain style checked Open Layers Palette - expand layer (#2) (See Item C) Right mouse click on the rectangle click on properties Change Vector Properties (See Item D) stroke- fill - line width Convert to Roaster Merge Layers (visible for transparent - flatten for non-transparent

Select (black as your) foreground color, to be used for the lines drawn
Ruler turned on (View/Ruler)
If it helps turn on your grid lines (View/Grid)

Notice: In the lower left corner of all the PSP Program, it shows the settings for the cursor. In the lower right hand corner it shows you the size of your image area and the bytes you are using at the time of creation.

Start your box drawing at the 20,20 mark on your image, click the left mouse button and holding it down, draw/drag your cursor. to the 80,80 mark. It is very important to stay consistent in your marks, on each of your animation layers, (Picture Frames) or it will be off by pixels. Each of the boxes, were created with the same settings, other then the outline number, which was increased by 2 for each new gif.

Again, there will be a total of 12 boxes completed for this animation project. Each one will be part of our animated Box. The first set of 6 are Boxes with the Outline width size changed from size 2 to 12. (2,4,6,8,10,12)

For the SECOND set of Boxes we will copy and paste each of the first 6 images we made as new images, then flood filled the center changing the center from white to another color. (I used Basic 216 pallet safe colors).

NOTE: If you choose to use PSP# 7 with the VECTOR properties manipulated, create each of the 12 boxes and manipulate the Vector area and save all 12 boxes separately.

Used pallet safe colors: Colors will show on all browser forum and have a faster loading time on a graphic intense page.

Similar to these

Plain Squares with Outline Width from size 2 to 12
Plain Squares with Outline Width from size 2 to 12
Squares with Center flood - filled with 216 pallet safe colors

Browser safe Color codes and names	Red = "#FF0000"	Lt.Blue = "#00FFFF"	Yellow = "#FFFF00"
Browser safe Color codes and names	Green = "#00FF00"	Dk. Blue = "#0000FF"	Purple = "#FF00FF"

Now we can take our individual pictures into Paint Shop Pro Animation
package and start the process of animation, or movement.

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