Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Adding text to a pre-animated image

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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 wide
and 75 pixels high.

3.  Chose your font and type your name or text. Add any bevel and/or drop shadow that
you 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 have
30 frames of your text. I want to add that not all premade animations will have
30 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 active
by clicking on the window around it.

11.  On your keyboard Ctrl + A then Ctrl + E. Move your mouse until you're happy
with 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 can
undo it and try again. This is what mine looks like.




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