A ARTE DE GUACIRA SAMPAIO ROCHA 2008

Inserting text in
"ANIMATED GIFS"

 

You'll need Paint Shop Pro7 and its complement, Animation Shop, installed in your machine.

Note!
With your GIF still ready, you realized that have not signed your work, or that you would like to insert some text in all animation frames. How to do this, without have the text 'jumping' inside the frames?

Follow the steps:

1
Open your GIF in the Animation Shop: this will open all animation's frames. Follow the steps"1" and "2" of the tutorial "EDITING ANIMATED GIFS" to know how bring the frames of the animation to the PSP

2
With the frames open in the PSP activate the upper layer listed in Layer Palette, choose the upper left icon of that window for add a New Layer.

3
In that layer, empty, over the image in the work place, put your signature or some text of your preference. Do all editions you want in that text, putting Color, shadows or another effect of your choice.

4
After this, duplicate the layer with the text the same times you will need to complete the frames of your animation. In the example above, you would need five identical text layers. In each new "copy of layer" with text, define a name with a number on it to identify the layers with the frames. See the images:


5
Cancel the viewing of "frame1" and "texto1". Do a "Merge Visible" in these two layers. You'll rest with a layer nominated "Merged". Click in its eyeglasses to cancel its viewing. Make visible the layers "Frame2 and texto2" respectively, and apply the "Merge Visible" to them, as you made in the other previous two. New click in the eyeglasses, and restart the process with the following pair. See that running:

6
When you have all layer's pairs in the "Merged" condition , recuperate the viewing of every layer (is fundamental have every layer with the eyeglasses without that "X" over them), click to activate the image, in the work area, with the mouse secondary button and choose the item "Update back to Animation Shop". Returns to the AS, rigth-click the animation, and choose the item " Break link with exported frames", and your gif is ready, with the text perfectly applied, without "jumping" during the animation.

7
And there is: your new film... your new GIF. Save the work.

Hands in work and...

Have fun!

Guacira Sampaio Rocha
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