ANI across Header   Tutorial by: HOOTY aka Doyle Allen Date: 12/07/03 Skill Level: Intermediate Approved by the HootyTutTestersGroup! Needed: Paint Shop Pro…any version Animation Shop A completed Simply framed header A picture tube resized   This is just to learn the basics ideas and steps and you can use your own paths and creativity once you learn.   Preparation: I would suggest resizing your header to no wider or higher than 400 pixels.. This is to keep the memory size down. Save your header at the Highest compression possible to keep your animation size down when  it is finished.  Quality may have to be sacrificed. I set mine at about 40%.    Also resize your tube to proper size as you see in my example and save as a transparent .gif in the same folder that you saved your header for easy access.     1. File/Jasc Software Products/Launch Animation Shop   2. Close out Paint Shop Pro...we are done using that! Now we go back to AnimationShop.   3. File/Animation Wizard Settings:  Same size as the first image frame = Checked Next> Opaque = Checked Right click on the Color block and change it to your background color that you are going to use. Next> Upper Left = CHECKED With the preceding frame's contents = Checked Scale frames to fit = Checked Next> Yes, repeat the ani indefinitely = Checked  How Long:  probably = 45 Next> Add Image: Find your Header Image  Open Next> Finish   4. File/Open: click on your resized tube Open   Now we are going to make 6 ani frames in total. 5.Click on your Header frame to make it active   6. Edit/Copy   7. Ctrl + Shift + L  (Do this 5 times)   8. Right Click on your tube now and select Copy   9. Click back on Frame 1 of your header frames   Procedure for the next steps: The next placement steps will tell which frame you are on and show you the general placement of your tube. Each time you click on a new frame press Ctrl + E and your tube will be suspended from your cursor tip until you left click which will paste it .  If you mess up just click Edit/Undo or Ctrl + Z   10.  Frame 1  Partially entering the frame on the right side and a little above as he jumps into view.   11. Frame 2  Lands down & Left from where he entered to start his journey jumping across the header.   12. Frame 3 Here he is shown where he jumped back up and over even more to the left of the header.   13. Frame 4 Here he is shown in his approximate landing level and over even more to the left.   14. Frame 5 Here only about half of the tube is visible as he apparently drops off the header! WEEeee! Bad landing Santa! Right click on it and select Frame Properties and change the timing to 20! This will make him drop off the screen more smoothly to the eye.   15. On Frame 6 Do not paste your tube but Right click on it and select Frame Properties and change the timing to 150! This will be a stagnant frame inbetween the animation so it doesn't drive everyone nuts, just to give the eye a break from the action!   16. Press the view animation icon  in the upper right side of your screen to see your new animation in action!   17.  File/Save As: Save your Header animation!   After Thoughts, remember to try different paths to make your own different variations of this idea!!  WEEeee!  Remember to Watermark your creations! **************************************** Approved by the HootyTutTestersGroup! Thanks to all the great testers that help me to make these tutorials as good as they are! The testers are always a vital part of the end results of what you end up using. Special thanks to all the testers: Because of the thumbnails the actual ani's can not be shown that the testers made but here are the names that helped make this tut all it could be..thanks all! Thanks: Laurie, Maria, MaryM, KMRA, Adrienne, Sue, Pat, Evelyn, Linda D & Paula! I love my testers!