Add Text to Animation

Part 2

17.  Restore – Animation Shop (we had minimized the program)

18.  Go to Edit – Paste an new Animation

19.  Your text will show as a new image

20.  Make sure that all the frames on your Blue Angel animation are showing.  If they are not, click
       on the edge and drag.

21.  Your animation has 3 frames.  See the F:3. That means that there are 3 frames to this image.

22. Right click on your text image – and choose Edit - Duplicate Selected. Your text needs to be
      the same number of frames as your image. So, we will do duplicate selected twice.

Your text image should now have 3 frames.

23. Make sure all frames of your text are selected.  They will be outlined in blue.

24.  Right click and choose Copy

25. . Go to your Blue Angel animation and click on the blue title bar to make it active.
      On your toolbar – Edit – Select All.  This will make all the frames active.

26.  Make sure that you see this blue frame around all the images

27.  Go to your Blue Angel animation and within the image – right click and choose
       Paste Into Selection Frame.

MAKE SURE THAT ALL FRAMES ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUE.

28.  When the text is placed, you will see an hour glass – move the text to the area you want
        it to be placed

29. When you have the area you want, just click and the text will be placed in all three frames.

30. We need to save our Blue Angel image.
     Let’s check our properties on our image.  Go to Animation – Frame Properties.
     Make sure that your frame properties, display time is set to 30 .

31. File – Save As .gif

32. Save in your folder

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