FLOWER FRAME SCRAP TAG

Step 1

Before doing the animation portion, do go to Peachie's Collection and download either the pink or blue flying bird animation located on page 7.

Step 2

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

This file is a bit large, so let's resize it.  Go to Animation/Resize Animation using the percent option at 90%, Smart Size and Maintain Aspect Ratio checked.

Step 3

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. You will now have two frames to your tag.    Repeat the duplicated selected again and you will now see F:3 which means 3 frames.

Step 4

Go to View/Normal Viewing. Right click frame 3, go to duplicate selected once more and left click.  You should now have 4 frames. Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate all the frames.

Step 5

Open up one of your animated pink or blue flying bird file.  You will see that this file also has 4 frames.   This is quite a small file - so let's resize it a bit larger.

Step 6

Go to Animation/Resize Animation using the percent option at 150%, Smart Size and Maintain Aspect Ratio checked.

Step 7

Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate all the frames of the pink or blue flying bird animation.

Step 8

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 your animated bird on your text. Once you have the animation placed, release the left mouse button.

Step 9

Have you animated bird active with all frames selected and go to Animation/Mirror. Go to Edit/Copy. Make the first frame of the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste into current frame.   This time, place the mirrored bird animation elsewhere on your text. Once you have the animation placed, release the left mouse button.

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 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 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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