Step 1 At Animation Shop, go to File/Open and locate the text (Image1.psp) and graphic (image2.psp) files. Make the text file (image1.psp) active. With the mouse, right click on this file and go to Duplicate Selected. Once you do, you should see F:2 which means 2 frames. Repeat the duplicated selected again and you will now see F:3 which means 3 frames. Repeat again, and you will now have F:5 - meaning 5 frames. Do this once more and you will see F:9 - meaning you have 9 frames. Step 2 Go to View/Normal Viewing and go to Onion Skin Enabled. Step 3 Make your tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy. Make the text file active and left click on frame 1 to select it. Go to Edit/Paste into current frame. Holding down the left mouse button, apply your tube graphic on the bottom line of the beauty school font as close to the far left as possible. Step 4 Make your tube graphic active and go to Animation/Mirror and go to Edit/Copy. Left click the second frame of your text file and go to Edit/Paste into current frame. Because you have the onion skin enabled, you should be able to see a shadow of the image and where you had placed it in the previous frame. This time you will place your image overlapping the shadow from the 1st frame and again on the bottom line of the font. Once your image is overlapping the shadow from the previous frame, release the left mouse button. Step 5 Make your tube graphic active and go to Animation/Mirror and go to Edit/Copy. Left click the third frame of your text file and go to Edit/Paste into current frame. Again you will place your image overlapping the shadow in this frame and again on the bottom line of the font. Once your image is overlapping the shadow from the previous frame, release the left mouse button. Step 6 Make your tube graphic active and go to Animation/Mirror and go to Edit/Copy. Left click the fourth frame of your text file and go to Edit/Paste into current frame. Again you will place your image overlapping the shadow in this frame and again on the bottom line of the font. Once your image is overlapping the shadow from the previous frame, release the left mouse button. Step 7 Make your tube graphic active and go to Animation/Mirror and go to Edit/Copy. Left click the fifth frame of your text file and go to Edit/Paste into current frame. Again you will place your image overlapping the shadow in this frame and again on the bottom line of the font. Once your image is overlapping the shadow from the previous frame, release the left mouse button. You should now have all your images across your text. Step 8 Holding down the control key, left click on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th frames to activate them. Go to Edit/Copy. Make the very last frame (frame 5) active by left clicking it. Go to Edit/Paste after current frame and go to animation/reverse frames. Step 9 Holding down the control key, click the A key to activate all your frames. Right click on any one of the frames and go to Frame/Properties and type in 55. Step 10 Before we continue to save the animation, let's first click the Customize button to make sure you have all the correct settings for this animation. This will be a bit different so do take note. Click the Customize button and you will see three tabs: Colors, Optimizations and Partial Transparency. Here is what each setting should be under the separate tabs: Colors 255 Colors, Optimized Octree and Error Diffusion should be checked. Optimizations The middle three selections should be checked. The top and bottom selections - unchecked. Partial Transparency Convert pixels less than 40 should be checked. Yes blend with this color and make sure that the color in the color box is WHITE. After
customizing all the animation settings, click Ok and click Next and you will get
the following screens: Step 11 Make sure to save your image as a gif file. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Purrs, Nikki, Nichie and Sue
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