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THIS IS A SIMPLE TUTORIAL TO SHOW YOU
HOW TO ANIMATE IMAGES - THERE ARE A LOT OF SCREEN SHOTS
SO PLEASE BE PATIENT WHILST THE PAGE LOADS - SOME HAVE
BEEN MINIMIZED FOR LOADING PURPOSES
OPEN YOUR TUBE IN PSP 8 OR PSP 9 AND PRESS
SHIFT + D TO DUPLICATE IT - CLOSE THE OTHER
IF YOU USE THE SAME TUBE AS ME YOU
WILL NEED TO RESIZE IT BY GOING TO IMAGE - RESIZE
TYPE IN ABOVE SETTINGS
RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR LAYER PALETTE AND
CLICK DUPLICATE
CLICK ON YOUR FREE HAND SELECTION TOOL
AND SET UP AS BELOW
USE YOUR ZOOM
TOOL TO DO THE FOLLOWING
MAKE A SELECTION AROUND THE MERMAIDS
TAIL
DOUBLE CLICK YOUR SELECTION - THIS
WILL TIGHTEN THE MARCHING ANTS AROUND IT
NOW CLICK ON COPY
THIS WILL COPY YOUR SELECTION TO THE CLIPBOARD
GO TO FILE - NEW
AND OPEN A NEW IMAGE
WITH YOUR NEW WORK SPACE ACTIVE GO TO
EDIT - PASTE AS NEW LAYER
THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL HAVE NOW
NOW GO TO IMAGE ROTATE AND TYPE IN
BELOW SETTINGS
LEAVE ABOVE FOR NOW
MAKE YOUR MERMAID IMAGE
ACTIVE
AND HIDE YOUR BOTTOM LAYER
WITH YOUR FLOATING SELECTION LAYER
ACTIVE HIT DELETE ON YOUR KEYBOARD
HER TAIL WILL DISAPPEAR
CLICK BACK ON YOUR MERMAIDS TAIL AND
GO TO EDIT - COPY
NOW GO TO EDIT - PASTE AS NEW LAYER ON
YOUR MERMAID IMAGE
USE YOUR MOVER TOOL
TO POSITION THE TAIL BACK ON HER BODY
SELECT YOUR CLONE TOOL
WE NOW NEED TO FILL IN THE GAP BETWEEN HER TAIL
HOLD DOWN YOUR MOUSE WITH A RIGHT
CLICK CLONING THE PART YOU NEED
LEFT CLICK WITH AND THE CLONE TOOL WILL
PAINT IN THE GAP
AFTER USING CLONE TOOL
THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE NOW ON
YOUR WORK SPACE
WE NOW HAVE 3 LAYERS
THE BOTTOM IS THE ORIGINAL
MERMAID
MIDDLE IS THE ONE WITH THE TAIL
CHOPPED OFF
THE TOP ONE IS THE ROTATED TAIL
X OUT THE BOTTOM LAYER
RIGHT CLICK ON THE MIDDLE LAYER AND GO
TO MERGE - MERGE - VISIBLE
BELOW IS HOW YOUR LAYER PALETTE AND
MERMAID SHOULD LOOK
NOW ITS TIME TO ADD SOME TEXT
SET UP YOUR COLOUR PALETTE
FOR YOUR TEXT
I USED #C000C0
FOR MY FOREGROUND
AND ONE OF THE TILES THAT I SAVED TO
MY HARD DRIVE FOR MY BACK GROUND
SELECT YOUR TEXT ICON
I USED BELOW
I MOVED MY TEXT TO UNDER THE MERMAIDS
HANDS
RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR VECTOR LAYER AND
SELECT CONVERT TO RASTER LAYER
I ADDED AN INNER BEVEL TO MY TEXT WITH
BELOW SETTINGS
CLICK ON YOUR TEXT LAYER AND DRAG IT
TO THE BOTTOM
THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL HAVE NOW
RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR BOTTOM TEXT LAYER
AND SELECT DUPLICATE
X
OUT YOUR LAYERS AS ABOVE AND GO TO LAYERS - MERGE
VISIBLE
X
OUT LAYER AS ABOVE AND GO TO LAYERS - MERGE VISIBLE
THIS IS NOW WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR LAYER
PALETTE
NOW GO TO FILE - SAVE AS BELOW
OPEN ANIMATION SHOP
CLICK ON BROWSE
AND OPEN YOUR MERMAID
THIS IS HOW IT WILL OPEN
USE YOUR CROP TOOL
AND CROP AWAY ANY UNWANTED SPACE
NOW GO TO EDIT - SELECT ALL
GO TO ANIMATION - FRAME PROPERTIES
TYPE IN 53
NOW GO TO VIEW - ANIMATION
AND SAVE YOUR WORK
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