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13. Now, for our animation. If you've used multiple layers for your bulbs, turn off your background layer, your string layer and your socket layer(s) and merge visible the bulb layers. Turn the other layers back on. Make sure your background layer is the colour you want it. 14. Duplicate your image (Shift+d). On the duplicate image, on the bulbs layer, Adjust--->Brightness and Contrast --->Brightness/Contrast) Enter 0 for contrast and whatever number you prefer for Brightness - I used 40. 15. On each image merge visible the layers and save to a temporary directory. Give them any name you wish, ie. bulbs1 and bulbs2. VERY IMPORTANT: (If you are using PSP 7, you don't need to do this) You need to save as a PSP 7 compatible file in order to be able to use in animation shop. When you get the save dialog box, click on options: image On the next screen, click beside Save as PSP 7 Compatible File. Click "ok" and then give it a name and save. 16. Open animation shop and click on the Animation Wizard. Use the following settings: First screen - Same size as the first image screen To view the animation, Click View--->Animation - I always do this before saving - I quite often catch errors this way and avoid embarassing myself by sending a crappy animation to the group I'm doing the image for! To save the animation, click File--->Save and follow the
dialog boxes.
You can also use other animations, blinking one or just a few lights a time. Remember that each frame needs it's own image, so if you want to blink a string of 5 lights with each light blinking separately, you would need to have 5 copies of your image, each copy having the light to be blinked brightened with the brightness/contrast and the other 4 lights the original (darker) colour. There are so many different variations to use! Here is one with a black background and each light blinking separately:
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it fairly easy to follow.
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