Let's Read a Book

Step 1

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

Step 2

Right click the file and go to duplicate selected.  You will now have two frames.  Go to duplicate selected again, and you will now have  3 frames.  Go to duplicated selected once more and you should now have  5 frames. Go to View/Normal Viewing.  

Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate all the frames.

Step 3

Open up the animated book file and you will see this animation also has five frames.

Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate all the frames.   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 book animation where you would like it.  Once the image is placed, release the left mouse button and your book animation will now be in all the frames of your tag.

Step 4

Left click the first frame of the animation to activate it.  Right click that frame, go to frame properties and left click.  Type in 100. 

Step 5

Left click on frame 2.  Holding down the control key, now left click on frames 3, 4 and 5. Right click on one of those frames, go to frame properties and left click.  Type in 20.

Step 6

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 7

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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