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| A number of ActiveRainers have requested that I share the process of combining a number of photos to create an animation or slide show, as pictured above. The process is rather straight forward and simple to use, when using Paint Shop Pro with it's Animation Shop "wizard" function. The screen captures below will walk you through it. |
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| Open the Paint Shop Pro program. Go to "File," scroll down and select "Run Animation Shop." When Animation Shop comes up, go to "File" and select Animation Wizard. Your first screen will come up which looks like the following. For the animation illustrated at the top of this page, I used photos all of the same size: 640 pixels wide, and a 480 pixels height. After you have input your size dimensions, hit "next." |
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| When I do these animations, I generally select "Transparent" for my background color, and then hit "Next."
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| The following screen capture demonstrates the way I usually fill in the selections. I then hit "Next."
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| When reaching the following screen I select "Yes, repeat the animation indefinitely" so that it repeats. I also choose 300/100ths of a second (equates to 3 seconds) for each picture to display. Remember to multiply the number of seconds you wish to display each picture by 100 to get the timing you desire. Then hit "Next."
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| The following screen will allow you to add the images you wish to have as part of your animation. You select these files from your hard-drive, etc. Once you have selected all desired images, you hit "Next."
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| When you see the following screen, you are nearing the end of the process. Select "Finish."
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| Once the Animation Wizard has completed the building of your animation, you will see a series of frames as viewed below. |
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| Once you see your frames as above, you can hit the little button indicated by the red arrow on your tool box. This will allow you to preview your animation. |
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| To save your animation, hit "Save As" and the following screen comes up. I prefer to select "Better Image Quality" and then hit "Next"
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| After hitting "Next" the program begins the "optimization" process, and when complete provides you with the "optimization" results. I then select "Finish". Paint Shop Pro will save your animation as a "gif" file. |
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Hi Myrl:
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Thanks! Looks cool I dont have this program but I am going to look at getting it. I like what I see!