Make
a new 150 x 125 transparent image.
Flood fill with a gradient.
You can make a quick gradient by making the style forground color white
and the background color blue #4040FF.
And
it should be your #1 gradient.
Style:
Linear Gradient
Angle: 153
degrees.
Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen
Sharpen it 3 times (it"ll smooth out the ripples in your gradient).
Add a new raster layer.
Add your text using these settings:
Font:Times
New Roman
Size: 10
Bold text and centered
Stroke: null
Fill: black
Floating and Antialias both checked.
With the mover tool, center your text and a little lower then center.
Deselect.
Add a new raster layer:
Add a tube of your choice to the upper right...i used a butterfly
Add another raster layer now if you wish and add your watermark..try
sauces easy peasy watermark
tut!
Click
on Image/Add Border symetric border at 5 click ok.
Tap the magic wand tool inside the border
Flood fill the border with a gray color #C0C0C0
With the marching ants around the boarder go to
Effects/3D Effects/ Inner Bevel.
Use the Frame Preset then OK.
Add a drop shadow. with these settings:
vertical and
horizontal at 2
Opancity 68
blur 3.7
color #808080 (gray)
Apply the drop shadow
again changing vertical and horizontal to minus 2
Deselect.
Save
your image and Launch Animation Shop
Go
to File/Open then find your sign in sig.
Right
click on your frame and then choose "Insert
Image Transition"
Now
for the hard part.
Follow this step carefully!
Choose the
wipe effect using these settings:
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Choose
the wipe effect using these settings:
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Click
the customize button and use these settings:
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Start
with animation frame
End with canvas color
Transition length 1.0 seconds
Frames per second 10
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Wipe
Movement:
Slide first and last frame
Wipe Direction:
Vertical
Top to Bottom
Transparency:
Preserve Transparency
OK/OK
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Now
you may notice that your animation is only
going one way (down). we are going to fix that.
First..right click on the last frame of your
animation and insert an empty frame after it
click once on the first frame.
Edit/Select All/Edit/Copy/Animation/Reverse Frames
Right click on the last frame then
Paste/After
current selection
You should have 24 frames..the first one is an empty frame and so is
the last one.
Right click on the first empty frame and change the frame properties to
100
Go now to your 12th frame( the one that is completly up) and
change the properties to 100 also.
You can delete the 13th
frame if you want but you dont have too.
If you are not going to add another animation effect..then you are
done!
Save
as a .gif
If
you want to add another effect to it..like a slat spin then right click
on the 12 frame and click Insert Image Transistion again,
Choose slat spin and start and end with animation frame
Change the 23rd frame properties to 100.
Save it as a .gif and your done!
there
is lots of things you can do with this tut. you can add many of
your
own ideas to it. have fun with it and be creative!!!
©Copyright 2002 Tye
Tut inspired by Teri who kindly gave permission.
