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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. 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. Repeat one more time and you will now have F:9 - meaning 9 frames. Step 2 Go to View/Normal Viewing. Go to Edit/Select All and all your frames of your tag file should now have blue around them. Step 3 Open up the Igtet1 (idol on pole) animation file. You will see that file also consists of 9 frames, the exact same number as we have for the tag file. Again, go to Edit/Select All so that all the frames of the Igtet1 animation also have blue around them. Make the Igtet1 animation file active and go to Edit/Copy. 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 Igtet1 animation to one side of your graphic. Step 5 Make the Igtet File active and go to Animation/Mirror. Again go to Edit Copy. Make the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste into Current Frame once more and again add the Igtet1 animation to the first frame but this time place it on the other side of the tube graphic. Step 6 With your mouse, right click frame #1 and go to frame properties and left click. Type in 0. Step 7 Holding down the control key, left click on frames #2, #3, #5, #7 and #9 to select them. Right click on one of these frames and go to frame properties and left click. Type in 13. Step 8 Holding down the control key, left click on frames #4, #6 and #8 to select them. Right click on one of these frames and go to frame properties and left click. Type in 12. Step 9 This is a big file and you may want to resize it. To do that, go to Animation, resize animation with percentage of original at 90%, Smart Size and Maintain Aspect Ratio checked. 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. Click the Customize button and you will see two tabs: Colors and Optimizations. Here is what the settings should be under these two 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. 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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