How about we do another from
scratch.
These clock images will be used to demonstrate how to insert
movement into a larger image. The reason for animating just a
portion of an image is to keep the animations file size as small as
possible.
These are the images used in making the clock faces.
What I've done so far is to use the Lasso tool  to trace around the
straight up hour hand. I then used Copy and pasted that hand into a
new .gif file. I then used PSPs Window, Duplicate, option eleven
times. I wanted to rotate each image 30 degrees more for each hour
the clock would need. PSPs Image, Rotate, Free, radio button was
grayed out, so I needed to use Increase Color Depth to 16 million
colors on each image first. If I would have continued to rotate a
single image it would have become unrecognizable before it had made
all the images. Each hand was made with a "virgin" straight up
image. After I had the twelve images I used the Magic Wand tool
 to select
the hand for "placing" on the clock face.
Notice how the Magic Wand didn't grab all the "not quite right"
colors around the edges? That's good! I had the tolerance set to
about 25 or so.
The first image in this animation is the whole clock reading
12:00 as pictured below. I then erased the hour hand for a clean
face to place the remaining hands on. That image is near the top of
this page. I would select a hand, go to the clock picture that
needed it, and hit Paste, As New Selection. Then click when the
hand was properly positioned. I then used the Rectangle Select tool
 to grab the
section of face that would be changing in each animation. I noted
where I was copying the rectangle from in the image so later I
could use the same coordinates to place the image in the right
place when I placed them using GifCon. (The cooridinates are given
along the bottom of PSPs screen.) After getting a copy of this face
I used Edit, Undo to remove the hand from the big picture so I
could do another hour hand.
This full clock picture is the first of the twelve images it
takes to make this animation.
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| These hand images are placed, then located properly on top
of the full size clock image using the image over and down
attributes available in GifCon. |
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The finished animation assembled, then the green background
is made transparent..
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