ROCKIN WITH THE STARS
Step 1 At Animation Shop, go to File/Open and locate the psp or psd file.Step 2 With the mouse, right click on this file and go to Duplicate Selected. You will now have two frames. Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate all the frames. Step 3 Go to View/Normal Viewing. Step 4 Open up the joalien7 animated gif file (dancing aliens). 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 animated dancing aliens where you would like it on the tag. Once you have the animation placed, release the left mouse button. Step 5 Holding down the control key, with your left mouse button, left click on frames #1 and #2 to activate them. Right click on one of these frames and go to frame properties and left click. Type in 33. 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 these animation settings, click Ok and click Next and you will get
the following screens: 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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