Using Blings

Sorceress in above graphic made by me using Daz|Studio

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You will need:-

Animation Shop

A 'Bling' style tube [an animated sparkley] 

A JPeg image/ready made tag or photo to add the bling to.

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Open Animation Shop, go to 'File' 'Browse' and locate your bling file. Double click to open the file .

Go to 'View' 'Normal Viewing (1:1)

[Ive scaled my images down so they will fit on this page]

If your bling has a coloured first frame, in this case black, right click the first frame and select 'Delete'. It's been coloured so that the bling [which is white] shows up in your folder. You don't want this on your final image.

You should now have this.....

Drag the slider across from bottom left all the way along to bottom right to see how many frames the animation has.  [the F numbers are the frame numbers ...F:1, F:2 etc]

The one I'm using here has 21 frames

Slide it back to the beginning again.

Go to 'File 'Browse' and locate the JPeg you wish to add the bling to.

Double click to open it.

Close the 'Browse' so that it's out of the way.

As the bling in this tutorial has 21 frames, we now have to have 21 copies altogether of the JPeg to go with it.

There are a few ways of duplicating, you can duplicate each image seperately frame by frame or in batches, it depends on how many frames you choose to highlight in one go  and duplicate. The end result should be that you have 21 frames. If you end up with too many, just right click on each one and delete separately

It will now show F:2

Keep an eye on the frame numbers at the bottom from here on

and you'll see both frames next to one another

Go to 'Edit' 'Select all' ....

and both frames will be surrounded in blue [selected]

Then go to 'Edit' 'Duplicate Selected'......

...and  your first 2 frames will have been duplicated, you'll now have 4 frames. [Remember to keep an eye on the F numbers at the bottom]

If you slide the slider at the bottom from right to left, you'll see your 2 previous frames

and all four frames will be surrounded in blue....

...then to 'Edit' 'Duplicate selected'....

You will now have 8 frames

'Edit' 'Select all' again.......'Edit' 'Duplicate selected'

You will have 16 frames

Just 5 more frames to make :-)

...right click on it and select 'Duplicate selected'

You will now have a frame 17.... F:17...if you move the slider along to the right you will see it.

Now, click that frame 17 so it alone highlights, then right click and duplicate as before. Continue duplicating like this until you end up with 21 frames.

Thats the hard bit done!

Now slide the slider all the way back to Frame 1..... F:1

Now to put the blings onto the graphic.

Go to 'Edit' 'Copy'

Now...click on the top bar of the frames with your graphic so it turns blue, and go to 'Edit' 'Select all' so that all the frames surround in blue......

and go to 'Edit' 'Paste' 'Into Selected Frame'

You'll now see your bling appear in all your picture frames attached to your mouse, if you move your mouse you can place it where you want it. Click your mouse once and it will stay where you put it.

Click the 'View Animation' icon     to see what it looks like. If you're not happy with the bling's placement, click the icon again to close the preview and go to

and you can add it again by going to 'Edit' and 'Paste' and 'Into Selected Frame' 

Click the animation icon again to view     

When you are happy with your animation, go to 'File' and 'Save as' a 'CompuServe Graphics Interchange (*.gif)

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

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