Needed:

Paint Shop Pro was used

Graphic Choice:

Something that you want to make cry , you

awful person you! LOL

Animation Shop

2  I like to put a red track where the tears are going to

go sliding down sometimes..

I use the pen tool and size it about 1 or 2.

I put a blur average of about 3 on it.. sometimes repeat it

so it isn’t so obvious but still visible.

3 Image / Canvas size

I use this to give me more room to add text to the side

of the animation… usually 550 pixels wide.

4  Add text if you like and any other things like tubes

if you like…remember the less complicated the total

image ends up being the lower the finished file size will

6  I save this as a Paint Shop Pro Image.Paint Shop Pro

7  Now on a separate transparent image I make a tear

drop.

 I make a thin tear using a tear shape from Paint Shop Pro,

select it….fill it with a color if I want.. I like red for

what I call blood tears sometimes for a more dramatic

effect. LOL Yeah I am sick but I seen someone else do

that and I thought that is soooo kewl.

I resize it to an appropriate size.

8  Here is a good inner bevel for it.

Bevel #2, Width = 5, Smoothness = 3, Depth = 1

Ambience = 10, Shininess = 0, Color = White,

Angel = 315, Intensity = 50, Elevation = 30

9  Optional.... too much looks unnatural.

Drop shadow…

Here is a good setting for that.

Vert. & Hor. both = 1

Opacity = 30, Blur = 3 , Color = Black

10 Save this as a .Paint Shop Pro

11  You need to make a circle and put it through the

same things as you did the teardrop…it should be about

half the size or a little smaller.

This will be used in the corner of the eye before the

tear turns into a tear shape and starts to stream down

the eye.  It helps to set the whole animation up properly.

12  Save this too as a .Paint Shop Pro  … we will call this the

1 Open all 3 things in Animation Shop

2 We will work with the frame first.

Edit/Copy then we want to duplicate it… the amount

of frames might be different for your animation.

I want 7 for mine this time so hold Ctrl + Shift down

with my left hand and tap the letter “L” 6 times

which gives me 7 frames of the framed graphic.

3  Then I click on the Tear Circle image and

copy it by Ctrl + C

4  Click on the first frame of your framed graphic.

5 Paste into the selected frame by clicking on

this icon:

Move the tear circle to the inner corner of the

eye then left click to finish placing it in that frame.

you certainly need to know about this. You will

really like using it..I do!

It is called an Toggle Onionskin Preview

Click on that little yellow icon!

What this does is give you a ghost image of the

last thing that you added to the previous frame

frame icon, move the tear into position and left

click to set it into place.

  Then you click on the next frame and repeat the

process over and over until you have the tears

Special thanks to Adrienne and Calvin for giving