The Fair

Step 1

At Animation Shop, go to File/Open and locate the psp or psd tag file. Go to View/Normal Viewing. You should have nine frames. Click the Control and A keys to activate all the frames.

Step 2

Open up the animated carousel file and you will see this animation also has nine frames. Go to Animation/Resize Animation with percent of original at 90%, Resize Type, Smart Size and Maintain Aspect Ratio checked.

Step 3

Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate all the frames of the carousel animation.   Go to Edit/Copy.  Make the tag image active and go to the very first frame and go to Edit/Paste into selected frame.  Holding down the left mouse button, place the carousel animation next to the R in fair.  Once the image is placed, release the left mouse button and your carousel animation will now be in all the frames of your tag.

Step 4

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 each setting should be under the two 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.

After customizing these 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 5

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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