Animate your name without a pen.

Using PSP8 and Animation Shop

New Image

Width: 400

Height: 400

Resolution: 72

Image Characteristics

Raster Background

Color depth: 16 Million Colors (24 bit)

Transparent: Checked

You can choose what font you want to use.

Materials

Colors

Foreground color: R: 107... G: 181... B: 115.../ HTML: 6BB573

Background color: R: 11... G: 75... B: 14.../ HTML: 0B4B0E

Font: Comic Sans MS

Size: 72

Stroke width (pixels): 1.0

Anti-alias: Checked

Effects...3D Effects... Inner Bevel...

Inner Bevel Settings

Bevel: #2... Width: 14

Image

Smoothness: 15

Depth: 12

Ambience: 0

Shininess: 50

Light

Color: White

Angle: 315

Intensity:81

Elevation: 30

Click: OK 

Write out your name. Duplicate it about 17 frames. If your name is longer just add another frame, as needed. We will crop it later.

I used 13 frames. Now start out with erasing your name leaving only a little dot. As you are going through your frames you will leave more and more of the letters. When you have reached your last frame you should have the whole amount of letters for your name.

Go to

File... Optimization Wizard

Optimized Output

Optimize for:

Animated GIF File... When finished: Replace the current animation with the optimized version... Next...

Animation Quality Versus Output Size... Click on Customize

Customize Optimization Settings

Colors

Number of Colors: 255 colors

Create palette by... Optimized Median Cut

Reduce colors by... Error Diffusion

Optimizations

Write Minimal Frames... Collapse Identical Frames... Map Identical Pixels To Transparent

Partial Transparency

Convert pixels less than 1 (0.4% opacity to full)

Would you like to blend the partially transparent pixels?

Yes, blend with the color: Black... R:0... G: 0... B: 0... HTML: #000000

Click: OK

Click on Next... Next... Next... Finish.

File... Save As... Save in: Desktop Folder.

(Put it in your Folder on the desktop and name it what you want for your projects.)

File name: Writing your name

Click: Save

Congratulations, your done!

Note: If you have any questions let me know.