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In the Stars
Step 1 At Animation Shop, go to File/Open and locate the tag file. Go to View/Normal Viewing. Click the Control and A Keys to Activate all the Frames.Step 2 Open up the file that has the text and click the Conrol and A keys to Activate all the Frames. Go to Edit/Copy. Step 3 Make the tag file active and go to Edit/Paste into Selected Frame. Holding down the left mouse button, bring the file with the text over to the tag design file that you have open and in the very first frame, place the text file exactly where you want it on your tag file. Once you have the file placed, release the left mouse button and the graphics file should be in all 3 frames of the tag file. Step 4 This is quite a large file, so let's resize it by 90% or smaller. Go to Animation/Resize Animation using the percent of original, smart size and maintain aspect ratio checked. Step 5 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 animation
settings, click Ok and click Next and you will get the following screens: 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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