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Open Animation Shop. Go to FILE
- then - BROWSE
Find the Tool you saved and click on
it. It should now be open on your
Animation Shop screen.
Now go to FILE - NEW
and make a new canvas,
Make sure its large enough for both
your Text and Writing Tool. It can
be cropped to size later.
Choose the colour of your text by
selecting the PAINT DROPPER
and moving over the COLOUR
PALETTE, left clicking on a
colour of your choice
Select the TEXT ICON
and click inside your NEW CANVAS
box
You will have this box
Enter your Text in the "Enter text
here" box
Choose a
Font, Style and Size. Click OK
Carefully click your text in the
centre of the NEW CANVAS
Now we
need to Duplicate the frame.
Go to
DUPLICATE
 on
your TOOLBAR and keep
clicking it. I usually duplicate 3
frames per letter. You probably
won't be able to get the exact
amount of frames you want but you
can delete unwanted ones later.
(You can
see the amount of Frames here)
(you can move boxes by clicking on
the blue bar at the top and placing
them where you want) Your
Workspace should now look like this,
Next Select the ERASER TOOL
You can change the size of
the eraser in this box that
appears above it
(use a small size for tricky areas
and a larger size for bigger areas.)
Go back
to the New Canvas (you can stretch
the frames out by clicking on the
right edge of the 1st frame and
dragging them out)
Leave
the text in the 1st frame intact. In
the 2nd frame erase all the text
except for a tiny piece where you
want your text to start. In the 3rd
frame erase all the text but leave a
bit more of the 1st letter showing.
The 4th
frame should have the whole of the
1st letter.
In the
5th frame start again leaving only
the 1st letter and the start of the
2nd letter.
(try to
imagine you are writing the text and
erase accordingly)
See
these examples
Continue this way until you have the
whole of your text left again .
You can now delete any excess frames
by clicking on the
frame to highlight it, then
right click and select delete . Make sure
when deleting only the frame you are
deleting is highlighted (has a
red/blue border inside it) or you
may delete all the frames)
See
below
Select the ZOOM TOOL
Click on the 1st frame and zoom out
really large. You will now be able
to see all the stray pixels you
missed when erasing. Erase all these
to make a cleaner image (even the
smallest speck will show in your
saved animation)
Deselect
the Zoom tool
Now we
are going to add the Writing Tool
Right
click on the tool and select COPY
Now
right click in the 1st frame of the
text and select
PASTE
- PASTE INTO SELECTED FRAME
Click
the writing tool into place at the
end of the text like this
Again right click on the writing
tool and select COPY
Click in the second frame of
your Text frames to activate it (it
should now have a red and blue
border)
right
click and select PASTE -
PASTE INTO SELECTED FRAME
Click
your Writing Tool into the
highlighted text frame at the place
you want it to start. Go back to
your writing tool and activate it
again.
Follow
the above procedure for every frame.
placing the Tool in place.
When you have placed the tool in the
last frame. Go back to the 1st frame
and highlight it, Go to EDIT
- SELECT ALL and then go to
ANIMATION select FRAME
PROPERTIES and you get this
Change the display time to
15(this slows the frames down and
gives a better effect.) Click OK.
Next go to the 1st frame and
select that frame only, Go back
to ANIMATION-FRAME PROPERTIES but
slow it down to 100
this will allow your text to stay on
the screen a little longer
Now check your animation by going to
the ANIMATION ICON 
at the top of the screen.
If you are satisfied with it go to
'FILE' then OPTIMIZATION
WIZARD and click
HERE
to go to the tutorial that show's
you how to make sure your settings
are right. This tutorial can take a
long time to complete as you've
probably just found out and it's not
very nice when the optimizer ruins
all your hard work
Just before you save your sig click
on your crop tool
Crop in the 1st frame
then
Use the arrow on the bar at the
bottom of the frames to have a look
at all your frames making sure you
have all of your writing tool inside
the boxes
If you are happy with it, go to
FILE - SAVE AS
You get this box
Name your file,
Select 'My Documents' or 'My
Pictures'
click SAVE
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