Animation Tutorial

Spinner

programs used

PD3 PSP7 Gif Animation

I created this spinning animation using a simple easy made graphic .... with the Painter. I kept it small to keep the bytes down to a reasonably usable file size. I took a screen shot and pasted it into my graphic program. I like to prop work in PD3 still. I made my canvas with a black background instead of transparent.

Right click Copy

I then opened PSP7

Click File

Choose New

Black Canvas not transparent

Click Edit

Choose Paste / New selection

Now that you have your image.... to create one like above you will need nine total copies.

Hold down the shift key and click the letter d it 8 times..... that plus the original will give you 9.

I calculated that a 45 degree rotation would be one complete turn from one prong as I will call it to the next. Prong= a protruding section of my image.

If I rotated it 45 degrees and used that it wouldn't change anything... for each prong is the exact same. and where one was ... the new one would be in its place with nothing between.

So I decided that increments of 5 degree rotations until I reached 40 total degrees of rotation... for the 45 th already exists. A complete movement from one prong to the next.

Use Image/Rotate/Free and highlight existing number and type in your degrees.

Keep track by stacking them ontop of each other as you go....

So frame 1 the original...

frame 2 rotate at Free 5 degress ...

frame 3 rotate at 10 degrees ...

frame 4 rotate at 15

frame 5 rotate at 20

frame 6 rotate at 25

frame 7 rotate at 30

frame 8 rotate at 35

frame 9 rotate at 40

Now that .. that is done, they are all stacked ontop of each other in order... From High to low or 9 on top going down to original on bottom.

Pile manipulation now.... you have them in a neat stack... take the top one and place it to the side ... we will make a new stack.... this first one you move is

frame 9.... after moving it...