Angels Touching Hearts-Using Animated Alphas

Using Animated Alphas

I wrote this tutorial on August 10, 2006 for a very good friend of mine, Ginny, who didn't know how to use them.

1. Open your alphas in Animation shop, each letter of your name.

2. Find the widest and tallest one, export it to PSP, and find the size of it. When you have that size, multiply the width times the number of letters in your name. Like my G was 193 x 151. So I multipled 193 X 4 which gave me 772. I opened a new blank that was 772 wide, and to give me some extra room, I made it 160 tall.

3. Determine how many frames are in your letters, this one had 14 frames. So I multiplied my blank 13 times, to give me 14 frames that are 772 by 160. I saved my blank in psp, and opened it in AS.

4. Click on control/A to highlight all of the frames in your new image, (put the blue border around them)..

5. Open your first letter and click on Control/A to highlight each one of those frames.

6. Go up and click on "copy".

7. Click on the top edge of your empty image, then go up and click on "paste into frame".

Your first letter will then show up on your empty image, and you place it at the beginning of your empty image. It will automatically be placed in each frame.

8. Repeat this for each letter of your name. When you finish, you can crop your image. I ended up with it 512 or something like that. I also changed the speed to 20 because my letters were dancing too fast. Then when I went to save it, it saved at something like 137kb, so I resized the animation by 75%, and it was still a large size, so I resized it again by 75%, and ended up with this at 83.9kb.

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This tutorial was written on August 13, 2006 for Angels Touching Hearts, by Angel Happy Heart.