Click on file and then browse...find the animated butterfly gif that you downloaded earlier and open it.

You should see six frames. Go up to edit and then down to select all.  All of your frames should now be highlighted in blue.

Like so....

Export them back to Print Shop Pro

With the gif now active click on your layer palette.  You again should see six frames.....we are now going to drag each frame one at a time to our text image, starting with frame one, then two and so on.  Once you drag each butterfly frame to your canvas do not move them (this is important....don't worry where they land on your text....we will move it later.)

We need a large canvas, so that we can move the text where we want it without having to move the  butterfly frames.  Go up to image and then down to canvas size.  Resize your canvas to about 800x800 ( I know this is large....but we will cut off any excess later) Click on your background layer and again flood fill it with white.

Now click on your text and move it so that your butterfly frames are above your text like so...

Now that we have everything in it's place we need to crop off any excess white that we do not need.  Click on your cropping tool and form a frame around your tag, double click on the outside of the frame to cut it away.

Now we are ready to start saving our frames (but before we do this let me just note that if you want your tag to be smaller now is the time to do it.) Click on Image then resize (making sure that all layers is checked) resize your tag....you may have to sharpen each layer after you do this for clarity.   I noticed when I tried to resize in animation shop the tag became pretty blurry...so the choice is yours :o)

Ok..on to saving the frames....click on your layer palette, X out all frame layers accept frame one like so...

Click on your J-peg tool and save at compression one, name it frame one.

Now X out all frames accept frame two like so and save it as before only this time name it frame two.

Continue saving each frame as before naming them accordingly until you have all 6 butterfly frames saved.

After they are all saved close the butterfly gif in PSP a box will pop up asking if you want to update the frames in Animation shop, click no....close the butterfly gif in animation shop and open your animation wizard and use these settings

Click on add and add all six of your frames, keeping them in order.  Click finish.  You should now see all of your frames...click on view, animation.  How's it look?  If you like what you see, click on File, save as and name your tag...that's it!  I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial...if you have any problems or questions let me know and as always have a great day!!

Hugs,

This tutorial won an award.... thank you for the gift Kayrels!

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