Hi there, well, to answer your question I'll have to ask you question.  Are all these frames in PSP, or only in Animation Shop.?  Each "layer" in PSP will become a "frame" in Animation shop. 

 

If all these layers or frames are in PSP, can you tell me when it happens?  What step are you doing when it happens, try to tell me click-by-click what you're doing when you get all these layers, and then we can figure out what's happening.

 

 

 

The tutorial asks you to create your text name in Animation Shop then to multiply subject/item?? once for each letter in your text, plus 3 extras. When I complete this I end up with 2049 frames instead of the 15 or so that I need...nothing is created in PSP program at all for this tut only in Animation Shop.  I was wondering if the Animation Wizard has anything to do with this even though I haven't used it for this tutorial

Ok, I just went throught the tut myself I have an idea what might have happened.  When you click on "Duplicate Selected" the first time, it creates another frame, and both frames are selected, which means that when you again click Duplicate Selected, it's duplicating 2 frames, making 4 total.

Now, if you did this 15 times, you would get 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc etc until at 15 times I could imagine it getting upwards of a couple thousand!

 

What you can do is, first stretch out the window so that you can see more than one frame (it's easier to visualize the multiple frames that way).  Also, look at the numbers underneath each frame.  It'll say something like "F:1 D:10".  The F:1 means that that is frame #1.  The D:10 means the timing (duration) of that frame is 10.

 

So just duplicate until you see F:15 on the farthest right frame.

 

Hope this helps, let me know if you still have trouble!

 

CJ