Written with floaties

In this article we will see how to make a sign with the addition of 'an animated effect using floaties Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop.

Note: the article was made ​​using the version of Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, but the steps do not vary for any of the versions of Paint Shop Pro
To make the animation was used Animation Shop, a program that allows you to create animated gifs. It was initially produced by Jasc Software. The latest version is 3.11 available only in English.
Unfortunately since the Jasc was acquired by Corel not been released new versions of the product, for this reason, only interfaces perfectly with the versions of Jasc Paint Shop Pro, produced by (ie up to version 9).
E 'can still create the animated gif combining newer versions of Paint Shop Pro with Animation Shop, the only thing you can not do is, in fact, to export directly from the frames of animation in Animation Shop Paint Shop Pro and vice versa.

The floaties are small animations in gif format, typically used to create written, decoration, wallpaper, trim package. On the Internet it can download different types.
Below the animation that I decided to use to make my example:

The floaties will use consists of 9 frames, then the animation we are going to build will contain many frames as there are frames that make up the floaties that we have chosen.

Let's start by opening the program with the floaties Animation Shop Pro, click on:

 



 File -> Open

 

In the dialog box that opens select the file and press OK.
The result we will display the animated gif broken up into 9 frames: In order to use the frames of animated gif in a written, in Paint Shop Pro, saving each frame as follows:

• click on the frame that we want to save
• save the frame by clicking on:

   
  
  
  
   File -> Save Frame As
  
   

  Or equivalently, click on the button highlighted in the following:
  
• In the dialog box that opens we name each file with the growing number (for example 01.jpg), and select the JPG format. Press Ok to give confirmation.

At this point, we have 9 files in JPG format, ready to be used as grounds in Paint Shop Pro

The procedure to add a new pattern is saved in the folder of the same reasons, which is located at:

 



 C -> Programs -> Corel -> Corel Paint Shop Pro -> Corel_08

 

Or in the folder:

 



 C -> Documents and Settings -> Administrator -> Documents -> My PSP Files -> Themes

 

At this point, we shall find the reasons that we have saved in the midst of the default of Paint Shop Pro <-PAGE-> The animated the floaties applichereamo the following image (more precisely the effect will apply only to the heart): We proceed by selecting the Magic Wand tool, present in the tool palette, and click once inside the heart, the level of writing.
In this way we have selected all your heart, and press the Delete key to delete the content.

At this point, the text is ready, and rinomianiamo as Text1.
To get nine JPG images that will make our animated gif, we duplicate the layer Text1 eight times, click on:

 



 Layers -> Duplicate

 

At each new level in order cresecente assign names Text2, Text3, etc. ... to the level Testo9.

The operations that I will list below will be repeated for all nine levels that contain the text:

1. Let us see only the background layer, and a level of text at a time.
2. Rimepimento select tool, and click on the box and fill the background color within the palette of materials
3. In the dialog box that opens, go to the Patterns tab and then open the drop-down menu containing the pattern, click on the arrow beside the black pattern displayed by default.
4. Notice that ahead of all the reasons pre-installed in Paint Shop Pro, there are reasons that we created from each frame, so we select the pattern with the number corresponding to the level of visible text.
   For example, if the level is visible Text1, called the reason we choose 01.
   Press Ok to give confirmation.
5. Click once inside the heart.
6. Save the background layer and the layer visible by clicking on "Salecah As ...". In the dialog box that will assign the name Frame + growing number (Example: Fotogramma01) and choose save as JPG format.
   Press Ok to give confirmation.

At this point, all the frames are ready, and we can only proceed with the development of animation in Animation Shop.

Animation Shop and open the program we start the wizard for the creation dell'aniamzione, or the 'Animation Widard, going on:

 



 File -> Wizard Animation

 

This will open a screen that will guide us in the process of creating the animation:

1. First screen: Define the size of the new animation, taking as reference the size of the first frame. Click Next.
2. Second screen: Set the color of the canvas. We choose the Transparent option and click Next.
3. Third screen: choose the arrangement of images within the frame of the gif. After selecting the options considered suitable, click on Next.
4. Fourth screen: at this stage we define the number of cycles and the display time. We set the parameters within the desired time and click Next.
5. Fifth screen: the final stage requires the loading of images that make up the animation and layout of the same according to the order in which they'll have. To upload images, click on add image and select the nine frames that we have achieved in JPG format. After being selected and press the Ok tats riordiniamoli the list in ascending order, using the commands at this stage, dell'Animation Wizard dialog box.
   At this point we can click Next and finish by pressing Finish.

The result will consist of the display of the sequence of nine frames: <-PAGE-> You'll notice that all frames have the duration set to 10/100.
E 'a value which is already very well for our entertainment, but we could if we wanted to change the display duration of each frame, click on:

 



 Animation -> Frame Properties

 

In the dialog box that opens by entering the value 12 and press OK.
Now the animation is ready, and get the result you need to click the View Animation: If the result is satisfactory, do not just have to re save the animation, click on:

 



 File -> Save As ...

 

In the dialog box must enter the name of the animation and save format. Save the animation in GIF (Graphic Interchange Format).

When saving GIF format, the animation is changed by the program which carries out 'file optimization.

The result you get is the following: