Adding things to animations in Animation Shop

I made this tutorial in PSP 7, but I am sure it will work in any other version. I like a lot of screen shots, so please give the page time to load.

I am using just a simple rose, that I have added sparkles to in Paint Shop Pro. Now, I am going to add my name, and watermark to it in Animation Shop.

1. Open your animated graphic in Animation Shop, this one has 3 frames to it.

2. Now you will notice in the screen shot above, that only the first frame is active (highlighted with the blue frame), and we want all of them active, so hold down Control button, and hit A. Walla, they are all active now.

3. Now open up your name graphic, you will only have one frame for it, and it is already active, but, we need 3.

4. So go to the top of the page, and you will see a button that looks like 3 little pages, this is your Duplicate tool, click on it 2 times.

5. Now you have 3 frames, so activate them, just like you did in Step 2.

6. Once you have all your Name frames activated, go to the top again and find a button that looks like a tiny black page and blue page together. This is your Copy tool, click on it one time.

7. Now go back to your Rose graphic, make sure all your frames are active, and go up to the top of the page again, and find the button that looks like a clip board with the paper hanging off the right side of it. This is your "Paste into Selected Frame" button.

8. When you click on that button, your name will appear in the first frame only.

9. You can move it to where you want it, once you get it where you want it, just release the mouse button, and it will appear in all the other frames also.

If you want to see your animation just go up to the left hand top of the page, and find your "View Animation" Button. Click on it and your graphic will open as an animation that you can view. Just click on it again to close the graphic.

Now you have your name on the animated graphic, and it is all finished except for the watermark.

To place the watermark on your graphic, you just follow steps 2-9 again, using your watermark. Now your tag is finished, has the watermark on it, and you can save it as a .gif.

Now See how easy that was.

This tutorial was written October 1, 2003 for my friend who had to remake a bunch of sigtags because she forgot to add her watermark to them.