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ADDING ANIMATIONS TO SNOWGLOBES

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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