Animated Arrow

This is a tutorial made with Photo Imapct, a program similiar to Paint Shop Pro

This tutorial was made by Kelly of

I think of all of Kelly's tuts I have done, this is my favorite. Kelly has kindly given me permission to use her tools and to write this tutorial in PSP and permission for you to link to her site.

Please do not claim this as your own. You are welcome to use it and share it but do not copy and paste to another site

Thank You

Written byİDorothy

March 2003

.........................................Let's start!!!..............................

This

is all you will need

Open the template in Paint Shop Pro ....... < on your layer pallette the arrow has to be at the top...the hand under the arrow...the blue text under the hand... the black text under the blue text....

Now we still have 1 layer left at the bottom....click on it to highlight it and write your text...open the text and with vector checked write your message......with your mouse find the arrows that will move your message on an angle......layers>convert to raster layer....... close off the arrow, the hand, the black text and the blue text....layers>merge visible.. ....rename this my text....

Now let's get this thing moving.....close off all layers except the arrow..duplicate the arrow and close it off.....and open the black text and duplicate....turn off this layer.....with your mover tool move the arrow down a bit to about

Here.....

Now layers>merge visible.....rename layer 1 .........click on the arrow and the black text and move the arrow a little closer to the greetings

Like so

......now layers>merge visible and renmae layer 2...... close off that layer and open the blue text and the hand.............highlight the hand and move it to the corner of the blue text....

Like so

....layer>merge>visible>....... rename layer 3............

.......on your layer pallet drag text layer to the top of the stack...we will have to move some of the other layers around too...... make sure your layers are lined up like this

Open all your layers and save as........

...................Ok, now we are motoring...........

Open animation shop and click on your animation....click on the blue text and right click and duplicate.....edit>select all...animation>frame properties...I added 35....

Now is a good time to crop it....edit select all......crop........options>crop around opaque area, now on the last frame you may want to slow it to about 100.....

Boy this was a fun one.....thanks for looking and thanks Kelly for shareing

Dorothy

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