Tutorial Created January 2008 ©By BuzyS.
Written for Animation Shop with PSP7 (adaptable to other versions of PSP)
Part 1: Making Simple Text in PSP
Part 2 Adding Simple Text to a Finished Animation in AS
Part 3 . Adding Animation to Animation(Animated Text, Blings)
Part 1
This is often a thought provoking thing to do. Putting text on to an animation already completed. All you wanted to do was add your name without it wobbling about all over the place. There is more than one way but I find the best tool for this is using the Propagate Paste Tool in Animation Shop to add my required text which I make first in PSP7.
First of all we need an animation to practice on. If you do not have one I have put one here to use.
Right Click the animation and save to your pc in your Documents or to your Desktop
Lets Start.
Open up your PSP 7.
Open the animation up in your PSP to start with. All you will get is a single layer. (Right Click it, Copy and paste as a new image. Close the original that you first opened. (You now have a working copy for reference.)
First check you colour settings. This image has a lot of Black and White so you may not have a full pallette.
Got to Colour, scroll down, increase colour depth and then go to the highest setting16 million
Now go up to the top Click on Image and then resize, The resize box opens, just make sure the actual size button is checked. This will give you the size of the image 350x350. Jot this down on a piece of paper. Then click cancel on the resize box.
Now to open a New Image : Go to File, New, put in your sizes:- width 350 x height 150 pixels, transparent background , then click ok. We choose these sizes as it is the width of the animation and we only want to add a name. 150 is plenty tall enough for this.
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Now we need put the text in the new image. Nearly all of you can do this but for those who are new to PSP the instructions are a little more detailed.
Go to your text editor and click it to select and put your curser on the new blank image square to insert your name. In the text box select your font, choose an outline colour and a fill that will suit the picture. You will need a size to suit and this should be 36 or 48. If you choose a really small font 72 can be used.
Check floating in the text box. Have your curser in the centre of the image for placement. Click ok. The text will have ants around it and by putting your curser on it you can adjust its position if required.(You can if you wish put the text on the Working Copy just to see how it looks first.) Go to Selections, and Select None. Now go to File, Save, Give it a name and save it to your documents or desktop. (Somewhere you will find it). Just save it as a psp tub. As we used floating this image should be just one layer. If you made your text another way just make sure it is only one layer when saved. You can check by going to layers , merge visible. Close the Working Copy. You will not need this again so no need to save.
Next Step is over to Animation Shop.
End of Part One.
Next see Part 2
