Skills with Paint Shop Pro & AnimationShop.

Needed: Paint Shop Pro & AnimationShop

EyeCandy4000

“Jiggle-Turbulence”although Brownian Motion

is a good alternative in the selections in

EyeCandy.

I am using Paint Shop Pro 8 but adaption to other versions

should work just fine.

 I do go into some length explaining

my thoughts and reasons to make it

more understandable about what we

are doing.. Don't let the length of the

Select a graphic with water spouting or a basic

waterfall. This tutorial is not really meant for

just a calm body of water…

(that is my other water animation tutorial).

This tutorial is just to show you how to make

the animation itself. It is up to you how you use

it or display it.. like in a Frame, Side Border

tile, vignette tag or whatever ok?! All right!

it and close out the original. If your

layer is saying BackGround then you

will need to promote it to a raster layer.

Layers/Promote BG layer

Many of the effects will not work on a

layer named Background!!!!!

1  Image/Resize … Smaller is best.

 I usually make mine no bigger than 400 pixels

either way and as small as 300 at the biggest

point but I usually use them as headers or the

picture on the side of a long sideborder tile.

2  At this point you need to do the framing aka

add a border, maybe a feathered ellipse shape,

could be you want to add a canvas to the right

to make the long sideborder tile if that is the

direction that you decide on.

 This is up to you and I trust that if you do not

know how to do any of these things there

are plenty of accessible tutorials to show you

how.

3  Add your watermark …. this may include

adding a raster layer, watermark, moving it

into position.

If you do it this way  then you need to

Layers/Merge so you finish with only 1 layer

on your layers palette.

4  Selection Tool: Select the water that you want

to animate.. This doesn’t mean all of the water.

I would not select small insignificant portions

and only select the parts of the water that is

falling or spouting ! LOL

 Choose the selection tool that will work best for

your graphic characteristics.

  I wrote this tut using a graphic in which the

majority of the water was a close similar

color so I just had to use the magic wand and

toy with the tolerance setting once.

 I did have the mode set to ADD so I wouldn’t

have to hold the shift key down on my keyboard

to select multiple areas.

  If the water is multiple colors then I use the

freehand selection tool … Zooming in to be

more accurate.

Do Not select any area right next to a

border!

  Note about Selection Type: I don’t think the

Smart Edge if very good for this type of thing..

 I prefer the point to point making multiple

clicks as I outline the water.

5  Depending on the accuracy of your selections

you might be smart to do this.  If your hand was

a little shaky and parts around the edges

contain some small parts that should not be

animated you might want to Modify/Contract

by 2-3 to get the selection a little away from the

original edges that you have selected.  

   Practicing and familiarization of this type of

animation will let you know when this is

desired.

6 Duplicate this layer 3 times.. still selected and

rename them as I have below if that helps you.

Bubble Size that will be applied to that

particular layer in this next step.

7  Make the bottom layer the active layer in

your layers palette

8 Effects/Plugins/ EyeCandy 4000 / Jiggle …

Click on Settings

and select the Turbulence.

Settings are shown below.

9  With your waterfall selections still active:

Click on each layer making each layer active

one at a time and applying the Turbulence to

same setting as the name of the layer that you

are working with.

10  File/Save As  …. 

(a)Change the Type as Paint Shop Pro,

(b)Name it

(c)Type in .Paint Shop Pro at the end and save to a file.

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1  File/Jasc Software Programs/Animation Shop

2  File/Open your .Paint Shop Pro file that you just saved.

3  Edit/Select All

4  File/Optimization Wizard

Gif checked

I like to use the Create a new animation option

because if I don’t like what It looks like at the

end I just close it out and I still have the

original undisturbed sitting there to start over

again with no fuss .. no muss.

 Try the Better Image option at different levels.

Use these setting…UNchecked .

  Continue to the Finished option and look at

the top where it says Optimized File to see how

big your animation is going to be and % change

to see how much it has been optimized already.

Press Finish, like it ? Is the quality of the

appearance to your liking?

 It is?!~ skip the next step!!!!!

5  Don’t like it…close it out and start from

File /Opt Wiz again!

6  Animation/Frame Properties … Usually a

setting between 15 and 25 looks best when

animated.

You will have to sit back , observe different

settings and choose the one that looks best to

you.

I used 20 on the one on this tutorial.

7 View / Animation

Don’t like it?  View/Animation to stop repeat

previous step!

8  Like it?

File Save As: name it and save as a .gif type.

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I must say that this type of animation has gotten

myself a lot of comments and how did you do

that for a long time and I am glad to share the

glory with you!

Have fun with it!

Hugs

Hooty