Animated Beating Heart Tag
Dreamsrmaid with Jessica
Written Feb. 12, 2003
Required for this tutorial:
Jasc Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop
Download trial version of Jasc's PSP 7
Lets get started :-)
1. Open a new image, 400 by 400, transparent.
2. Set your colour palette to red Html#800000
3. Select your preset shapes and on toggle box, select heart2,antialias checked,
line width=1, line style=solid line.
4. Hold down your shift key as you left click and hold mouse key down and drag out heart shape.
Do not let heart touch the edges of your image.
5. Use your mover tool to center your heart on your image..then select your crop tool
to crop excess transparent background away from your heart.
6. Do this by drawing out the crop icon outside of your heart then double click
inside the crop box and it will crop away your excess background
7. Add a new raster layer. Go to effects..3D effects, Inner bevel and apply your
preset round and change smoothness to 100, rest of the settings stay the same, and
okay.
8. Add a new raster layer and on this layer add anything that stays on the heart such
as a font or tubes that decorate heart..don't decorate transparent areas. Add new
layers each time you add to your heart until you get it how you want it to look.
Once heart is decorated how you like it..go layers, merge, merge visable.
9. Now go to your layer palette and duplicate this heart (right click and select duplicate
when toggle window opens.)
10. Now go to image...resize and resize this duplicated layer by 95%, then go effects,
sharpen..sharpen.
11. Save in PSP format, we are ready to animate.
Launch animation shop
12. Go to file..open and open your heart image.
13. Go to edit, select all, to select all your frames
14. Go to animation..resize and resize so is no bigger than 200 pixels.
15. Go to effects, select all then go to File, export frames to PSP
16. it will open on PSP as an image with two frames..go to layer palette and
hightlight frame 1 and go effects, sharpen sharpen, then go to frame 2 and then to
effects, sharpen..sharpen.
17. IN Psp go edit, update back to Animation Shop then close the image on PSP and go
back to your AS.
18. In AS, go edit select all, then go animation, frame properties and set display
time to 20 and okay.
19. Check how it looks now, go view, animation.
20. If happy with it, close the view animation window, and go File, Save, name your
animation, keep it in gif format, put it into folder you keep your animations in,
and default through rest of the file save boxes and you are done!
Congratulations! I hope you had fun making this tag.
Here is my finished result
This tutorial was created Feb. 13, 2003 and is the sole property of Dreamsrmaid with Jessica.
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