Step 1

At Animation Shop, go to File/Open and locate the psp or psd file.

With the mouse, right click on this file and go to Duplicate Selected and left click. Once you do, you should see F:2 which means you now have 2 frames.   Go to  Edit/Select All so that all the frames of of the tag file are activated

Go to View/Normal Viewing.   

Step 3

Open up the animated phone graphic (tel-1) and go to Edit/Select All so that all the frames of the tel-1 gif file are activated

Go to Animation/Replace Color and use these settings:

Make the tag file active and go to Edit/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 animated phone to the right of your text and release the mouse button.  You should now have the animated phone in both frames of your tag.

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:

Screen 1

Animation versus output Size - just click next.

Screen 2

Optimization process - just click next.

Screen 3

Optimization preview - just click next.

Screen 4

Optimization results - click finish.

Step 6

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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