TEXT SLIDE ANIMATION

HootyTut© by Doyle Allen  2/21/04

A short course on Placement Animation

Approved by the HootyTutTestersGroup!

Skill Level: Advanced-Intermediate

Needed: Paint Shop Pro (8) Animation Shop

 1 Open a New Transparent Image

350 x 200

2 Pen Tool  

Settings shown below:

Note: Turn off the background color

in the layers/Material palette!

3 Left click on the left bottom leaving

a little space from the bottom and left

side as shown in the illustration below.

Hold the Shift key down & click on the

right which will make a straight line

across.

  The Ilustration in step 5 will help to

aid in the real placement. 

4 Objects/NodeType/Curve Before

                         OR

Right Click on the node as shown

above & Select NodeType/Curve Before

 You will see a little circle appear almost

in the middle as you see below. 

5 Left click on that (circle) Node and

drag it down as shown below. 

6 Text Tool  (v)

Note: Turn the background color back

on if you want 2 colors in your text!

Settings shown below: 

Note: You will see that I have chosen text

type Bolder Reg.. if you don't have it then

just use a text that is sort of fat and easy

to read.

7 Move your cursor to the center area

of the line and you will see the cursor

change shape when you have

connected to the drawn line, then left

click.

You will notice that a new layer is

created because it is a new Vector

layer .... kewl!

  *****Now the fun begins!****

8 Type in a short phrase as I have done

and you will see the text run along

the line and up the curve on the end!

WEEeee!

NOTE: If your text is not centered just

click cancel and click on a better spot

on the line!

To make any changes the words

must be highlighted in the text box

that you are typing in.

This could be Text size, color changes,

Font Type etc.

Just be sure that your text is long

enough to run up the right side.

9 To Change the color on one word

as I have done, highlight the word in

your text box and then change the

color. You can see that only that

changes!

10 Click apply when you have it all

looking as pretty as you do!

Yes ..... you da' bomb! LOL

11 Click on the + to open up the layers

within the Vector layers as shown

below.

12 Turn off the New Shape layer (X)

which is the layer that has the line on

it.

13  Layers/Convert to Raster Layer

  This will make the Layer group 1

layer, with of course a transparent

layer underneath it. 

14  Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel.

Note: These bevel settings will remain

the same throughout this tutorial.

Apply more than once if you'd like.

Settings shown below:

14 Effects / 3D Effects/Drop Shadow

Note: Settings will stay the same!

Settings:

V & H both = 4, Opacity = 34, Blur = 6

Color = Black

15 Now you need to choose a tube &

put it on a New raster layer.

  Use the method that suits you best.

It could be an object,person, animal

or even a heart shape.. up to you!

16 Image / Resize

Be sure that All Layers is unchecked!

Make your tube a size that is compatible

with your text size. About the same

size as is seen in my examples is

probably best for what we are going

to do.

17 Apply the inner bevel and the

18 Mover Tool 

Move your tube to the upper right hand

corner where it will be out of the way

as you will soon see.

  Be sure that your shadow does not

get go off the sides of the corner!

19 Duplicate the Image of your tube 19

 times by clicking on the icon as

shown below!

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POSITIONING THE TUBE SEQUENCE

Please read:

   In the next steps basically you will

take one tube image at a time by

clicking and dragging the image

from the right top corner and moving

it to the center area.

  I could make this process very

cumbersome by saying turn off and on

layers as we go but for the most part

you will need to see where the last

one that you placed is and the string

of images before to aid in the

positioning of the next tube.

Warning: Now and as we go along it

will be a good idea to save repeatedly

as a type=Paint Shop Pro Image with the extension

of your name as .Paint Shop Pro

  As you go through the different rotations

you should be able to gain a new feel

for how many degrees and which way you

rotate them. I know on a lot

of mine I rotated between 30-60°.

 Below is what all the layers in position

look like. Pay particular attention to how

close each tube is placed next to each other. 

4 Now for a little clean up!

If you have extra tubes showing on

the upper right, turn the layers off on

the bottom until none show in the

upper right corner.

  All the other layers need to be turned

back on.

So your text layer and the whole

sequence should be showing.

See image right above step 1.

 Yours should look similar.

 You should have a transparent layer

on the very bottom.. activate that and

add your watermark to that one layer.

5 File/Save As

File Name needs to end with .Paint Shop Pro

Save As Type: Paint Shop Pro Image

OK!

TIP: Do not close out Paint Shop Pro or your

layers.. You may want to come back

later to move some of the tube images

as you see how they look when they

are animated.

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OFF TO ANIMATION SHOP!

TIP: You can use the Move Tool in

Animation Shop to make minor adjustments.

 Be sure only a single frame is

selected when you do this though.!

1 File/ Jasc Software Products/

Launch Animation Shop!

2 File/Open

Find the file that you just made and

saved as a .Paint Shop Pro and open it!

3 You should see ani-frame 1 with your

watermark on it.  Left click on the

transparent center and drag it off!

Kewl huh?! ;0)

4 Now you should see your TEXT

showing as frame 1.

Click on it and drag it off.

  Now you have 3 separate pallets to

work with.

Watermark,Text and the tube ani frames.

5 Click on the tube stack to make it

the active one.

6 Edit/Select All

7 Animation/Reverse Frames

8 Scroll all the way to the right and

last frame & it will show you at the

bottom F? how many frames you have.

Mine says F:17, so I have 17 frames.

Remember how many you have.

9 Click on your Text frame to make it

active.

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10 Edit/Select All

11 Edit Copy

12 Starting your count with the number

"2" hold down the Ctrl & Shift buttons on your

keyboard and tap "L" however many

times it takes to make exactly as

many frames as you counted from

your tube frames.

Done? Do a double check by scrolling

all the way to the right and look! F?

13 All the frames should already be

selected.

14 Edit/Copy

15 Click back on your tubes stack

and Edit/Select All

16 Edit/Propagate Paste

17 Edit/Paste Into Selected Frame

Note: The Text will move with your

cursor as you move it into position.

When you are satisfied that it is in

the right spot left click and it will

paste.

   If you are off you can just undo and

repeat.

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18 View/Animation

Starts the animation

19 View/Animation

Stops the animation.

If you are pleased with your alignment

then continue. If not then Edit Undo

and try again!

20 Click on your Watermark to make

it active.

Repeat steps 10-17. ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*

21 Dropper Tool:

Select a good background color.

Remember that too dark of a color will

interfer with seeing the dropshadows.

Lighter is better!

22 Animation/Animation Properties

(a) Click on Opaque

(b) RIGHT Click on the color block and

(c) select the color you chose for the

BG color.

OK!

23 File/Optimization Wizard

Click to set as "Animated Gif File"

"Create a new animation"

Set for the best quality but smallest

file size.

24 Left Click in the middle of frame

one so it is the only frame active.

25 Animation/Frame Properties

450

     This will prevent the viewer from

getting bored or aggrevated with the

animation running over and over.

More enjoyable you might say.

 26 View / Animation

File/Save As

Save as a gif to your document files.

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 Afterthoughts:

  The reason we add a background

color and do not save it as a

transparency is to hold the file size

down. The one I am doing along with

this tut for instance would be 200+

kb's, but with the background added

it is 76 kb's! Viva la' difference!

  Position adjustments can be made

in Animation shop using the mover

tool.

   In Letter Creator use the eye dropper

at the top to select the same background

color as you have made

for the animation.

  In the Header Section put it at top

left.

Note: For a footer you can use something

like a pen, flowers or something that

goes along with your theme.

     Position it in the FOOTER page to

the right.

Make it smaller that the header.

   If you have not done an animation

like this before then it will take a lot

of time to do it the first time.

  I would have to think that if one

done this say 5-6 times and not just

go through the moves but understand

and grasp the concepts  creating

placement animations would  open

wider and wider. , and I am not

telling you to do this but I do

believe it to be true.

Well that's all I can think of to tell you

about this simple(?) but cool ani!

Hugs

Hooty