Step 1

Step 2

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.   Repeat the duplicated selected again and you will now see F:3 which means 3 frames.  Repeat the duplicated selected again, and you will now have 5 frames. Repeat the duplicated again, and you will now have 9 frames.  Repeat the duplicate selected and you will now have 17 frames. Repeat the duplicate selected one more time and you will now have 34 frames.

Step 3

Go to View/Normal Viewing.   Holding down the control key, left click on frames 32 and 33  to select them.    Left click on any one of those two frames, right click, go to delete and left click. You should now have 31 frames.

Step 4

Open up the phone animation.  Holding down the control key, left click the A key to activate all the frames.  Go to Animation/Resize Animation using the percent option at 50%, Resize Type: Smart Size and maintain aspect ratio checked. 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 phone animation where you would like it on your tag. Once you have the animation placed, release the left mouse button.

Step 5

Go to Animation/Resize Animation using the percent option at 80%, Resize Type: Smart Size and maintain aspect ratio checked.

Step 6

Left click frame 1.  Right click on frame 1, go to frame properties and type in 5.

Step 7

Left click frame 2.  Right click on frame 2, go to frame properties and type in 1.

Step 8

Holding down the control key, left click on frames 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.  Right click on any one of these frames, go to frame properties, left click and type in 2.

Step 9

Left click on frame 23. Right click on frame 23, go to frame properties and type in 50.

Step 10

Holding down the control key, left click on frames 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. Right click on any one of these frames, go to frame properties, left click and type in 1.

Step 11

Left click on frame 31. Right click on frame 31, go to frame properties and type in 100.

Step 12

Go to Animation/Resize Animation using the percent option at 90%, Resize Type: Smart Size and maintain aspect ratio checked.

Step 13

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 (This is a bit different than usual)

255 Colors, Optimized Octree 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 14

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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