Marching Ants Tag
You Need:
PSP
Animation Shop
1. Open a new image 300 X 100 (or bigger)
2. Flood Fill the new image with a color of your choice
3. Add a New Layer
4. Selections - Select All
Selections - Modify - Contract by 5
Selections -Invert
5. Choose the Paint Brush Tool and use these settings:
You might want to zoom in a bit. I zoomed in to 250%
6. Now make a square all arround the box starting from the left top corner. Leaving every other square emtpy
7. Once your done, choose another color and flood fill the empty squares
8. Selections - Select None
9. Add a new layer
10. Close your Layer 2 and activate layer 3
11. Do the exact same thing as you did in step 6 & 7, but use your second color for your first square and go on
12. Selections - Select None
If you want to add text or anything now is when you do it
13. Close your layer 3 and activate layer 2
14. Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)
15. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen (optional)
16. Selections - Select All
and copy your image
17. Open Animation Shop and paste your image
18. Right click on your image
Insert Frames - Empty - OK
19. Go back to PSP and hit undo 3 times
20. Close layer 2 and activate layer 3
21. Repeat steps 14-16
22. Go to AS and right click on the empty screen
Paste - Into Selected Frame
(You might have to move it go get it centered, if you get it out of frame undo and try again)
23. Click on View Animation
And your DONE!!!
Wasn't that fun?
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