Flaming Image

Open the tube that you would like to add your flames to.
This is the tube that I used.

Use either point to point or selection tool (depending on the shape you need).
Set the mode to add.

Select the areas that will have the flames.

Press delete. Make a new layer. Make another selection that covers the area that you selected previously, fill with white.

Move this layer to the bottom.
make the top layer active.
make a new layer
Select your pen tool, color does not matter, line with set to 5, mode set to freehand.
Draw a line under the area that will have the lines

NOTE
Be sure the line does not stick out past the edges of the tube.

This is what your layer palette should look like so far.

Make your line layer (top layer) active and duplicate twice.

Make the top layer active. Apply Eye Candy 4000 > Fire with the following settings

Make the next line layer active. Apply the same fire settings but click random seed once or twice, then click ok.
Repeat fore the last line layer.
Your layer palette will look like this

Save your image.
Open Animation Shop.
Click File > Preferences > General Program Preferences > Layered Files.
Here are the settings

Click OK and open your image.
Your image will look like this

Click on the tube layer, cut and paste as new.
Do the same with the frame that contains the white area.
Now you have three images.

In your toolbar make sure that propagate paste in ON.

Make the fire image active, select all.
Make the tube image active. Grab the tube and drag and drop it onto your flames.

Make the image with the white area active, duplicate selected 2 times for a total of 3 frames.

Make the tube image active, select all and copy.
Make the image with the white areas active, select all, paste into selected

If your image needs to be cropped, now is the time to do it.
double click on the crop tool. Select Surround opaque and click ok. Click Crop on the toolbar.

If your image does NOT have shadow, you can skip the next step.
Select all, click animation > animation properties.
Select a background color

Lets set the speed.
Select all. Click animation > frame properties.
The default number is 10. Change it to the speed you want.
The higher the number, the slower the animation
(I used 45 for my image)

That's it.

resize, save and done :-)