Step 1

Step 2

Go to View/Normal Viewing. Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate all the frames.

Step 3

Left click the first frame and go to Frame Properties.  Type in 20.

Step 4

Open up the B48 gif file (talking flower).  You will see there is two frames.  What we will need to do is make two more frames - to have the same number of frames as our tag.

Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate both frames.  Go to Edit/Copy. Left click the 2nd frame of this animation and go to Edit/Paste after Current Frame.  You should now have four frames.

Step 5

Holding down the control key left click the A key to activate all the frames of the B48 gif file. Go to Edit/Copy. Make the tag image active, making sure all the frames are activated (left clicking the control and A Keys).  Go to the very first frame and go to Edit/Paste into selected frame.  Holding down the left mouse button, place the B48 talking flower gif file in the top left swirl quadrant. Once you have the animation placed, release the left mouse button.

Step 6

Go to Edit/Paste into selected frame once more and again place the talking flower gif file in the bottom right swirl quadrant.  Once you have the animation placed, release the left mouse button.

Step 7

Open up the hvidbloms gif file.  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 make sure all the frames are activated (left clicking the control and A keys). Go to the very first frame and go to Edit/Paste into selected frame.  Holding down the left mouse button, place the animated gif file in the top right swirl quadrant.  Once you have the animation placed, release the left mouse button.

Step 8

Go to Edit/Paste into selected frame once more and again place the hvidbloms gif file in the bottom left swirl quadrant.  Once you have the animation placed, release the left mouse button

Step 9

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 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 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 10

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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