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Animated Interlocking Hearts with Paint Shop Pro X and Animation Shop

From Arizona Kate, Guest Contributor, for About.com

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Crop, Optimize and Save

I love animations

Use this same glitter technique to make yourself a blinkie!

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To help keep final file size smaller, let's crop the canvas size to the smallest possible dimensions.

Select Cropbutton from toolbar (it's next to the Movertool). Three new buttons appear above the Tools bar when Crop is enabled. Select the Options button. In the popup dialog box, select 'Surround the Opaque Area'. Click OK. A crop box now appears in each frame. Look at its placement in each frame to make sure this is what you want. Select the large Crop button next to the Options button to apply (or use Clear if you need to try again!).

Select the Savebutton. The GIF Optimizer dialog box will appear.

Animation Quality vs. Output Quality. Moving the 'Better Image Quality' slider down will reduce the file size by reducing image quality. We should be okay to keep the slider all the way to top for this animation. Click the 'Customize' button in this dialog and review all the settings for colors, optimizations and transparency. Click OK and Next until completed! If the final result is not to your liking, you can undo the optimization and try again with different settings.

Hope you enjoyed making these glitter hearts! .....Kate

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