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Step 1 At Animation Shop, go to File/Open and locate the psp or psd file. With the mouse, right click on the psp file and go to Duplicate Selected. Once you do, you should see F:2 which means 2 frames. Step 2 Go to View/Normal Viewing. Go to Edit/Select All and both frames of your tag file should now have blue around them. Step 3 Open up the breadeyes animation file. You will see that file also consists of 2 frames, the exact same number as we have for the tag file. Again, go to Edit/Select All so that both frames of the eye animation also have blue around them. Make the eyes file active and go to Edit/Copy. Make the tag file active and go to Paste into Current Frame. Making sure you are now at the FIRST frame of the tag file and holding down the left mouse button, place the eye animation in the center front area of the bread loaf and release your left mouse button. You should now have the animation in both frames of your tag file. Step 4 Left click the control and A Key to select both frames. Right click on one of the frames and go to frame properties and type in 50. Step 5 Go to Animation/Resize Animation using the percent option at 90% or smaller, smart size and maintain aspect ratio checked. Step 6 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. 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 Median Cut 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 7 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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