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Animated Falling leaf
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Open a new image 150 X 500 Transparent.
Press CTRL + B to bring up your PSP browser. Direct it to your tubes folder and open the Autumn Leaves tube that came with PSP.
Use your selection tool set to rectangle and select the leaf that you would like to use for your animation. Press CTRL + C to copy and close the tube without saving the changes.
On your image, press CTRL + E to paste the leaf as a new selection. Use your deformation tool to resize so that it fits comfortable on your image and place it at the top.
Press CTRL + C to copy now that you have resized it. Deselect. Press CTRL + L to paste as a new layer. Use your deformation tool to rotate your new leaf slightly. Apply the deformation.
CTRL + L again and deform again, placing the new leaf lower that the one before. Continue pasting and deforming till your image has a row of leaves as shown below.
Save your image. Open Animation shop. Click File > Open. Open the image that you just saved in PSP. Press CTRL + A to select all. Right click and select Frame Properties from the drop down menu. The default number is 10. change it to 20 and click OK. Click View > Animation. Your animation should look something like this.
To have two leaves falling at the same time, press CTRL + A to select all. Press CTRL + C to copy. Make sure the slider bar at the bottom is all the to the left so that the first frame is visible. Press CTRL _ E to paste. Place the new leaf next to the one that was already there.
To scatter the leaves, hold down your shift key and click on frames 4 and 5 select them. Press CTRL + C to copy. Click on frame 7 or 8. Click Edit > Paste After Current Frame.
I also resized by 60 % of original.
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