I have been asked
several times how do I add animations
to Snowglobes. Therefore I decided to
create a tutorial on how I do it. :) This
tutorial is for intermediate users.
First
open up Paint Shop Pro and Animation
Shop.
This
is the animation I will be using. You can
right click and save it to your hard
drive or you can use one of your own.
Zip
file containing the snowglobe tube.
Open
the animation in Animation Shop. You will
see that it has nine frames. I have shown
the first three below.
Right
Click anywhere on the animation and a
menu will appear. Scroll down to Frame
Properties.
It
will show the display time at 12/100.
That will be the timing we will use for
the new animation.
Go
to the first frame in your animation and
copy it CTRL+ C. We will be using this as
a guide for the snowglobe size. Leave
your animation open.
Go
to Psp and create a new image 450x450
transparent. Flood fill with any color
background or pattern you wish to use. I
generally use the same colors as the
web-page I will be displaying it on. In
this case, a cream color. Paste the
copied animation as a new layer.
Add
a new layer and call it snowglobe, and
drag it under the animation layer, and
above the background layer.
Add
your snowglobe tube and resize to suit
the animation. I scaled it to 65%. Place
it so that the animation appears to be
inside the globe - then crop the image to
a neater size using your crop tool.
Next
go to your animation layer and delete -
we don't need it anymore in PSP. Merge
the existing two layers - Background and
Snowglobe. Go to Edit/Copy CTRL+C.
Go
back to the cinderella animation in
Animation Shop. As mentioned before, it
has nine frames. That is the amount of
frames we must have on the Snowglobe
image.
Paste
your copied PSP image as a new animation
- then Shift+Ctrl+L eight more times
until you have a total of nine frames.
Go
back to your Cinderella Animation and
select all frames Ctrl+A. (All the frames
should have a blue border when selected.)
And Copy Ctrl+C. Then go to your
Snowglobe frames and Select all frames
Ctrl+A. Then go to edit/paste/into
selected frame. Ctrl+E. And paste the
animation into the first frame, making
sure that the animation is inside the
globe and near the base. If you make a
mistake go to Edit/Undo Ctrl+Z and try it
again. All other animations will be
automatically added in the same positions
in the other globes.
All
frames still selected, Right click
anywhere on frame and go to frame
properties and add 12 to the display time
- the same as the original animations.
Click View Animation on your tool bar. To
see your finished animated snowglobe.
I
hope you have fun with this tutorial. If
there is any part you don't understand,
please feel free to E.MAIL
me.
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