Add Text to Animation

 Last week we created our first animation.  You will learn how to add text to the animation.

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Deloise Font

1. Open Animation Shop and  open your Blue Angel animation that you created from last weeks tutorial.
     File – Open – Browse to your file folder that you stored your completed graphic in.

 2. On the first frame of your Blue Angel image – right click and choose copy

3.  Minimize your Animation Shop Program 

4. Open PSP.  Edit – Paste as new image

5.  Go to Image – Image Information.   Look at the size of your image. 
     Make a note of this.  My image is 500x575.

6. Go to File – New and create a new image using this size.  Mine would be 500x575.

7. You should have your Blue Angel image open and you will have a new blank canvas.

8. Click on Image 1 (Blue Angel). You can tell which image you are working on by looking
    at the layer palette.

 9. Click on the Dropper Tool  
    Let’s choose a color that will look good for your text. I am using

   Foreground Color -  
  

   Background Color

10  Open your Font – Deloise. Let’s create your text, by clicking on the text icon   

11.  Use these settings for your Text.    

12. Click on the blank canvas, Image 1, that you created.
      Place your text anywhere on the canvas. You will see the “floating ants” around your text.

 13. Let’s add a drop shadow to our text.  Effects – 3D – Drop Shadow.

14.  Apply drop shadow with these settings

 15. Selections – Select None

 16. Right click on your image with text – Copy

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