ANIMATING and OPTIMIZING YOUR TAG TUTORIAL

 

You will be animating your fantasy bird tag you see here.

1. Open Animation Shop (File, Jasc Software Products, Launch Animation Shop).

2. Click on the Wizard Icon or File, Animation Wizard.

3. Navigate to where you saved your two tag parts, and while holding down the "Shift" key, click on the last one made then the first one to "select them in order of animation".

4. Keep going till they are in your Animator.
(If you want to reset the timing for faster or slower animation, click on the first of your frames and hold down the shift key using your R-arrow to select all frames to work on at once. In this case there are two frames. You will have a blue line around all frames selected. Click on Animation at the top and then Frame Properties and change the number to whatever you wish.)

5. Click on the first of your frames and click on Animation, Resize Animation and set it as set below. Always use "Bicubic resample" instead of "Smart sizing" as it will have more clarity after sizing with the former rather than the later! When you are happy with the size click OK.

6. Now to Optimize your file so you have a nice clean graphic in the end. Here is where a lot of people get lost and loose their clarity on their graphics. Set it like this and almost always use these settings (unless you have transparent or heavy gradient background designs).

Click on Customize...

Can you tell the difference? This is usually as good as it gets with a white background.

Save your graphic - put it in your email and watch it do "pretties"!

Now, wasn't that fun!?!

Hugz,

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