Sinedots Animation TagThis tutorial was written April 14th 2006by Sandie © Artwork by EssexGirl, All Rights Reserved. please do not copy it, or put it anywhere else without my written permission. Filters and programs used in this tutorial :- Materials :- A font of your choice. The font that I used is
called This tutorial has lots of possibilities for variation,
using |
Step 1. *That is the size I used for this tutorial, but |
Step 2. Make Raster 1 the active layer A navigation box will appear. Use this to go to the
folder Just above the 3 buttons is a narrow window (arrowed
2. * I have included several other presets in the .cfg
which You can change the colour of your sinedots image by *I have made the animation at the beginning of this
tutorial When you have chosen a preset and colour, click OK Hide the layer containing the sinedots image (Raster 1),
by (my screenshot doesn't show the other layers) Make Raster 2 the active layer |
Step 3 At the left of centre on the settings box, in the
section called *Although I am just changing the X1 Offset in this
tutorial, you I kept to a regular addition of 45.00 to the setting for
each sinedots All sinedots presets will not have a round figure like
0.00 to start When you've made the changes to the settings click
OK Make Raster 3 the active layer. |
Step 4 We need to be able to see one of the sinedots images, so
click |
Step 5 To give you a rough guideline, these were the settings I
used |
Step 6 Use a font of your choice, the size will depend on
the Click on your image just below the sinedots and type in
your If you want to you can apply an inner bevel,
texture, I applied an inner bevel using these settings If you made your canvas larger than necessary you can
use |
Step 7 Example 1. For the tag at the end of the tutorial I used a masked background Example 2. Go to Layers...Load/Save mask...Load mask from
Disk... Go to Layers...Merge...Merge Group... |
Step 8. You can either make the layers visible one at a time,
then apply Horizontal and Vertical Offsets=2 |
Step 9. The Background and text layers should be visible. |
Step 10. In PSP go to Edit...Copy Merged...(Ctrl+Shift+C) In PSP hide Raster 1 and make Raster 2 visible Continue in the same manner, in PSP hiding the previous
Raster Go to View...Animation...to see your animation in action |
Step 11. I left the speed of my animation at the default
display I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial |
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