Misses BeeHaven Scrapbooking

I am sure there are many Animation Shop users out there beside me that found that after spending countless time working on your animation creations that when you save the animation it just looks wrong, or yuck for a better word.. its not right and so annoying to waste all that time and the end result is less than pleasing.

Here is a tutorial on how I found the best results for saving Transparent Animations with Animation Shop (animation shop is an add on for Paint Shop Pro by Jasc)

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Tools Needed:

• Animation Shop- Get it HERE

After you have created your animation and are ready to save here are the settings to use.

Click on File, and click on Optimzation Wizard
Next be sure to have a dot in the “Animated GIF File” option and When Finsihed “Replace the current animation wit the optized version”

Click on the next button to continue the wizard

Place a tick in the “Use these settings when saving unoptimzed files” if not already ticked, and then Click on the Customize button.

On the Colors tabe adjust the number of colors to 256 Tick the “Optimized Octree” option and tick the “Error Diffusion” option.

Moving on now click on the Optimzation tab at the top of the screen.

From the optimization tab you need three options ticked, they are:
Write Minimal Frames
Collapse Identical frames
Map Identical Pixels to Transparent

And lastly click on the Partial Transparency tab.

Tick the box to “Use Error Diffusion dither” and also tick “No, use the existing image color at 100%”

To save your animation click on OK button and give your file a name.

Congrautlations you have now saved a transparent animation.

Happy Creating!!

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