Animated Lighthouse
This tutorial follows the lighthouse tutorial. The animation was made with Animation Shop 3.You'll need your lighthouse image, and if you want to make fog, the Mura Meister Cloud plugin.
The terms of use are here
Animating the Lighthouse 1. Make a copy of your lighthouse by pressing SHIFT-D. Open the duplicated image and close the Light layer by clicking on the glasses on that layer in the Layer Pallette. Save this image as lighthouse2.psp.
2. Merge layers visible in both images by going to
3. Now that the layers are merged, you can resize by going to Image - Resize and picking a percentage. Then go to Effects - Sharpen. (We didn't resize before, because then all the layers wouldn't have been sharpened.)
Now, you should have two images of the same size, one with the shining light, and one without.
Optional Fog
For both images:
Choose Fog from the preset menu.
Play with the Effect and Amount values to see how much fog you want.
It really doesn't matter if the fog effect on both images is similar, because you'd expect fog to be moving around, anyway.
(For a tutorial on installing plugins, go here.)
4. Go to File - Jasc Software Products - Launch Animation Shop.
5. Now you can use the animation wizard by clicking on the icon on the upper left hand of the screen:
As the screens pop up, just go with the defaults which are in this order:
Transparent
Upper left corner of the frame
Change the next one:
Make time for each frame delayed, 100
On the next screen, add the two images, lighthouse.psp and lighthouse2.psp.
Click on Next and then Finish.
You will see the two images as frames in the workspace. To see the animation, click on the View Animation icon:
6. Saving. Press CTRL-S, just breeze through the next screens, using the defaults, and at the end give your animation a name, like lighthouseanim.gif.
You're done! Congratulations!
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