Bubbles2

BUBBLES2

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Needed tools:

Open a new image 70 X 400 Transparent

Activate your draw tool.

Set your foreground color to white and your background color to null.

Here are the settings for the draw tool.

On your image, hold your shift key down to insure a straight line and draw a line right down the center of your image.

I put the next image on a black background so you could see the line better.

Apply Eye Candy 4000 > Glass.

Click on Settings and select the Aqua setting. Click ok.

Your image will look like this (shown on both a transparent and a black background)

The colors are going from dark to light and we want them from light to dark.

Press CTRL + R to bring up the rotate window. Rotate by 180 degrees.

In your layer Palette, duplicate your layer. Activate your mover tool and drag your top layer up slightly.

In your layers palette, duplicate your copy of layer1

With your mover tool still active, drag the top layer up slightly.

Save you image and open Animation Shop.

In Animation shop, click File > Preferences > General Program Preferences.

Click on the Layered Files tab and set your preferences as shown below. Click OK.

Click File > Open and open your image.

Click View > Animation.

Your animation should look something like this.

If you are happy with this, save your image.

If you want a few more rows of bubbles click file > New. Open a new image 300 > 400 Transparent.

You will now have a transparent frame 300 X 400. Duplicate it twice for a total of three frames.

Refer to your bubble animation. Select all (CTRL + A) and copy (CTRL + C)

Refer to your 300 X 400 transparent image.

Select all (CTRL + A) and paste (CTRL + E)

Place your first row of bubbles as close to the left edge as possible.

Paste again at add the second row, repeat until you have about 5 rows of bubbles

Use your crop tool and crop away the unwanted transparency.

Preview your animation. If you are happy with it, save it now.

If it is moving too fast for you, lets slow it down.

Select all.

Right click and select Frame Properties from the drop down menu.

The default number here is 10. Change it to the speed that you like. Keep in mind the the HIGHER the number, the SLOWER the animation.

Here are 2 animations. The first one is left at speed 10. The second one is changed to 30.

10	30

When you are happy with the speed, save your image. You're done.

If you would like to learn how to make bubbles like these, click on the animation below.

Notice that the bubbles do NOT change from light to dark, but are uniform.

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