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Editing your
"ANIMATED GIFS"

 

You'll need Paint Shop Pro7 and its complement, Animation Shop, to make this exercise.

Note!
Imagine the following situation: you have one "animated gif" in hands, but would like do some changes on its frames, editing them in the PSP (as make a transparency, a texture in its background, or even a signature), but don't know how to proceed.
The following 'step by step' will guides you on doing it.

Follow the steps:

1
Open your GIF in the Animation Shop: all of the frames from the animation will be presented for viewing. If you intend edit all the animation, it means, all the animation frames, mouse click in Edit/ Select All. But if you intends barely edit one or another frame, selects them individually.

2
Next, click the selection with the mouse secondary button and, in the menu that presents, choose the item "Export frames to Paint Shop Pro"; alternatively, pressure the shortcuts "shift+x". Your frames will be bring all together, in a common window, each one in a exclusive layer, to the Paint Shop Pro that automatically will be opened by the AS.
See an image of how it would be with a five frames GIF:

3
To edit each one of those frames make visible only the layer containing the frame you want to work with, closing the viewing of the others - to do that, mouse click the eyeglasses in the right end of each layer. Make every editions you want, always following that procedure.

4
After you have completed the individual edition of the GIF frames, you must leave visible all this window's layers (as shown above). Right click the image title bar (in the PSP editions screen), and choose the menu item "Update Back to Animation Shop". All the frames that you brought to PSP earlier will be now bring back to AS, maintaining all the modifications and editions you defined for each one of them.

5
Click the Animation Shop icon, minimized on the Windows tools bar, and visualizes your gif animation opened with all its frames already edited by you and that, in the however, will be blocked for any activity. To unblock the animation, right click anyone of the selected frames, and choose the menu item "Break link with exported frames".

6
And there is: your new film... your new GIF. Remember to save the work.

Hands in work and...

Have fun!

Guacira Sampaio Rocha
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