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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.

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Hand01.gifHand02.gifHand03.gifHand04.gifHand05.gifHand06.gifHand07.gifHand08.gifHand09.gifHand10.gifHand11.gifHand12.gif

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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