Adding text to
animation
using propagate
paste.
This tutorial is one that I am asked for
frequently. It takes an already animated image and allows you to add text
to it. Once again, this tut was born in our group, Blank Gift Tags, so the
credit for it goes there.To find out more about membership you'll
need to <a
href="https://members.tripod.com/gift-tags-home/blankgifttags.htm">Click
Here</a>This tutorial
assumes that you have knowledge of psp,animation shop, working with layers,
tubes, and understand which tools are which.
1. I will be using this gif for the
tut. I did not create the gif, and to my knowledge it is freeware.
Right click to save this gif to your hard
drive.
2. Open the gif in animation shop, and
click the center square to maximize your frames. Right click on frame 1 so
that it is the only one highlighted and choose insert
frames/empty.
3. You will insert 1 frame, before frame
1, and it will be blank to canvas color.
4. Click on frame 1, so that only it is
highlighted. This should be your blank frame.
5. Choose Edit/propagate
paste.
6. Choose a color for your text in the
color palette. I used the eyedropper and selected a color from the
gif. Click on your text tool.(This is the A in your tool
bar).
7. Making sure only frame one is
highlighted, click on it and add the text you want. I chose to put LOL,
using a font called 2peas oatmeal cookie, bold, size 48, antilias checked, and
centered. These settings may change depending upon the animation you are
using.
8. Once again, with only frame one Highlighted,
right click and choose copy. You will probably have to choose the arrow again in
your tool bar. Now right click on the same frame and choose
delete.
9. Now choose edit-select
all.
10. While all of the frames are
highlighted, you are going to right click on frame one and choose paste into
selected frame. Align the text where you think it will look the best. Now
this is going to put the text on all the frames in the same spot, so keep that
in mind when you are aligning it. Once you have the text where you want
it, click to set it. You should see the text on all
frames.
That's all there is to it! View your
animation,close, Choose to save your file and you are done! For
adding text to animation that is too small for text, please see the resizing
animation tut.
