Panda Love
This tut is my own creation, any resemblance to other tuts is purely coincidental. I'm using PSP 9 and Animation Shop. You should have a basic knowledge of both programs to successfully complete this tut.
I'm using a delightful little panda bear tubed by Mull. I'm using the font Plump MT, any fat font will work fine.
Open a transparent image 850 X 400, we can resize later.
On your layer palette, flood fill the layer with white and rename background.
Copy and Paste your panda bear tube onto your image, rename the layer bear 1.
Duplicate the bear 5 more times....you should have 6 bears.
Rename the bear layers, bear 2, bear 3, bear 4 up to bear 6.
Your layer palette should look like this....
Your image should look like this....
I Xed out my background layer and used the checked background to line up the feet of the bears....
I used the left foot of each bear to line them up
On your layer palette, click on bear 1. Click on your text tool. In you material palette change your foreground/stroke to black and your background/fill to red. I used #bf0200 - red.
Use the following font settings...
Type out I, on your layer palette convert to raster layer, rename I.
Type out L, on your layer palette convert to raster layer, rename L.
Type out O, on your layer palette convert to raster layer, rename O.
Type out V, on your layer palette convert to raster layer, rename V.
Type out E, on your layer palette convert to raster layer, rename E.
Type out U, on your layer palette convert to raster layer, rename U.
With your mover tool move the letters into place....like this
On your layer palettle click on the "I" layer. Go to Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow. Use the following settings...
Click on the "L" layer, repeat the same drop shadow. Repeat the drop shadow on each of the "letter" layers - ONLY!
Okay! Now for the important part!
Arranging the layer palette...
We want to move each letter UNDER each corresponding bear....
From this....
To this
Layer I under bear 1
Layer L under Bear 2
Layer O under Bear 3
and so on....
Your image should look like this....
We are now ready to animate!!!
X out all your layers EXCEPT B1 and background. Your layer palette should look like this....
Go to Edit, Copy Merged.
Got to Animation Shop (AS)
Go to Edit, Paste as New Animation.
Go back to PSP.
Click on Layer I, X out Layer B1...like this
Go to Edit, Copy Merged
Repeat these two steps for each layer - like this...
Click on Layer L, X out Layer B2, Go to Edit, Copy Merged - then to AS, Paste AFTER current frame....do this for each layer.
Click on Layer O, X out Layer B3
Click on Layer V, X out Layer B4
Click on Layer E, X out Layer B5
and so on to the last layer
Go to AS, Paste AFTER the Current layer...
Go to Edit, Select All, Frame Properties...
Set between 40-60
I used 45
Go to View Animation
If you are satisfied with your results, Go to File, Optimization Wizard and do the following...
I resized my final image, if you wish to do this go to Edit, Select All, Resize Animation....
Click NEXT on the next 5 screens.
Save as a .gif
Here's another example!
Want to try this one???
The steps are the same as above.
Here are the tubes I used
I typed out MY using the same font as above.
The possibilities for this are endless - have fun with it!
If you have any questions...
A gazillion thank you's to Frankie for all her hard work in making this tut workable.
Here's her hilarous take on the tut!!!
