Adding text to a pre-animated image

Right click on the ladybug image above and save it to your computer. 1.  Open Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop 2.  Open a new transparent image in PSP that is 105 pixels wideand 75 pixels high.
3.  Chose your font and type your name or text. Add any bevel and/or drop shadow thatyou would like to add.
4.  Edit>Copy
5.  Go to animation shop. Right click on a blank space on your work space and click Paste As New Animation
6.  Open the ladybug image. Notice that there are 30 frames of animation.
7.  Click on the frame of text that you just pasted into animation shop.
8.  Edit>Duplicate Selected. You will need to repeat this until you have30 frames of your text. I want to add that not all premade animations will have30 frames so it's important to first see how many frames of animation there actually are and then duplicate your text to match.
9.  On your keyboard Ctrl + A (to select all) then Ctrl + C (to copy).
10.  Go back to the ladybug animation but don't click inside it just yet. Just make sure it's activeby clicking on the window around it.
11.  On your keyboard Ctrl + A then Ctrl + E. Move your mouse until you're happywith the placement of your text. Now click just once.
12.  Click the view animation button. If you are happy with it, save it. If not, you canundo it and try again. This is what mine looks like.

Animating Rain

First you'll need to download my image hereYou're also going to need Van Der Lee Snowflakes if you don'talready have it. Install it to your plug ins.
1.  Open the rainy day image in Paint Shop Pro. 2.  If you want to add your name or other text, you should doso now. When you're finished:Layers>Merge>Merge All
3.  Left click on the Lasso tool and use these settings:Selection type: Point to PointMode: Add (shift)Feather: 0Smoothing: 2Anti-Alias checked
4.  Use the lasso tool to select the inside of the frame so that it looks like this:

Once you're completely around, double click to close it.
5.  Layers>New Raster LayerClick OK
6.  Effects>Plug Ins>VanDerLee>SnowflakesUse these settings:

7.  Adjust>Blur>Motion BlurAngle: 27  Strength:  25Click OK
8.  Selections>Select None (ctrl + D)
9.  Layers> Merge>Merge All 10.  Copy and Paste your image into Animation Shop
11.  Back to PSP. Click the undo arrow 4 times until all you haveis the selection.
12.  Repeat step 6 except change the random seed to 1384. Click OK
13.  Adjust>Blur>Motion Blur. Nothing changes here so just click OK.
14.  Repeat steps 8 & 9.
15.  Copy the image (Ctrl + C)
16.  Go to Animation ShopEdit>Paste>After Current Frame
17.  Back to PSP. Click the undo arrow 4 times until you just have the selection again.
18.  Repeat step 6 except change random seed to 4025.
19.  Repeat step 13.
20.  Selections>Select None
21.  Layers>Merge>Merge All
22.  Copy this image and go to Animation Shop
23.  Repeat step 6.
24.  Click the view animation button and watch your animation.
25.  If you're happy with your creation, save & enjoy.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.  

Sweet Dreams Baby

You won't need any extra plug ins for this tutorial.

The Keith Garvey tube that I used can be purchased from MPT

The other supplies you can download here

Save the font in the zip on your desktop and then open it. It will show up in

you fonts in PSP when you need it later.

Save the mask with your masks.

Here we go:

1. Open the ac_nightsky~AC image.

2. Layers>New Raster Layer

Click Ok.

3. Click on your floodfill tool and floodfill the image white.

4. Layers>Load/Save Mask>Load Mask From Disk

Find Mask 179 in the drop down. Make sure there are dots in Source Luminance,

Fit to Canvas and Hide All Mask. Cllick Ok.

5. Layers>Invert Mask Adjustment

6. Layers> Merge>Merge Group

7. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow

Vertical & Horizontal: 2 Opacity: 85 Blur: 3.00 Color: #000000

Click OK

8. Layers>Merge>Merge All

9. Copy and paste your tubes onto the image. Arrange them like above

or to your taste. I used the same drop shadow as in step 7. For the star

I resized it by 65% for the one on the top left. If you're using a

copyrighted tube that you've purchased don't forget to add that info

and your license number now.

10. Add your name or other text. I used the included font with the

foreground and background color #9acaed and the font size: 48

11. Selections>Select All (ctrl + A)

Selections>Float (ctrl + F)

12. Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel

Bevel #2 Smoothness: 0 Color: White

Width: 8 Depth: 1 Angle: 315

Ambience: -3 Intensity: 50

Shininess: 0 Elevation: 30

Click ok

13. Selections>Select None

14. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow

Same Settings

15. Layers>Merge>Merge All

16. Open Animation Shop and then open the image you just

created in there. I use PSP 9 so what I do is just copy it in

PSP then right click on a blank space in Animation Shop and click

Paste As New Animation.

17. Now we need to dulplicate the image you made in PSP so:

Edit>Duplicate Selected

We need a total of 11 frames so you need to repeat this until underneath

your last frame it has F:11 D:10

If you make too many frames, click on the border around thelast frame

so just that one is selected then Edit>Delete. Do this until you have just 11 frames.

Use the scroll at the bottom of your frames and scroll all the way to the

left so that you're back to the first frame if it already isn't. On your

keyboard Ctrl + A to select all frames.

18. Open the star line bling.

19. Ctrl + A to select all frames then Ctrl + C to copy them.

20. Go back to your image that you made in Paint Shop and on your

keyboard Ctrl + E

21. Move your mouse and all you should see is the first star. That's perfectly okay

because they'll all show up in the finished product. Move your mouse

until the star is as shown below and click once.

22. Now click the view animation button (looks like a red film strip on thetop right hand side of Animation Shop) to watch your animation.23. I resized mine by 85%. Save and enjoy. If you have any questions, please leave a comment.