panning icon tutorial
Someone asked me how to do this effect, and I couldn't find a tutorial on it, so I wrote up a (really) quick tutorial for them on how I do it. I don't know if there's an easier way of doing it, this is just the way I do it.
This tutorial makes this icon:
It's too big for LJ because I messed up a little, but it serves its purpose for a tutorial.
This is for PSP7 and Animation shop 3, though other versions of the same programs should use the same idea.
This is the effect I'm trying to achieve, it's too big for lj because I messed something up, but it gives you the basic idea.
This is the picture I'm starting out with:
You start by opening the canvas size window (image-canvas size) and deciding what size of picture you'll need. I decided I needed about 300x300 worth of space to get in all the picture I'd need. Then, you uncheck the center image horizontally box, and try to guess where you need to start out on the picture. I guess I'd need it to start about 50 pixels from the left edge, so I put -50 in the left box. Just clicking on the right box changed the number to what it needed to be.
This gave me this:
Now I decided his ears were cut off too much and I needed it to be higher up, so I undo what I did, and then redo what I did before but this time I unchecked the vertical box too. I figure it too might need to be about 50 pixels from the edge, so I put -50 in the top box. Note: If you are sliding right across the image, the vertical number never changes. If you use 50 once, you use it everytime.
that gave me this:
Perfect! Save that as image01 or something, then undo so that you are back to the original image again. Now I just need it to slide to the Hatter. I change the horizontal number by about 20 (I should've used a higher number, like 50 or 75 for this size of image, but 20 works well enough to get the idea).
gives me this, save this as image02 or something (so long as the names save in alphabetical or numerical order):
and I repeat, adding 20 each time so it moves a little each time, saving them in order as you go.
Then I stop when I finally get the Hatter where I want him
now, I open animation shop. I use the animation wizard to make an animation of all of the frames in order.
now I go to Animation-resize animation and change the size to 100x100.
now I select all frames (ctrl+A) and change the speed on them (animation - frame properties - display time). I want it to move fast so I change it from 15 to 10
then I go to the first frame, select only it (by clicking on it) and change it's frame properties to 75. I do the same with the last frame. You can use different speeds, these are just the ones I chose to use.
now if you did everything right you should have this:
if you want it to have text, you could try resizing each frame after you've done with it to 100 x 100, and putting text only on the first and last frames. Then you can skip the resize step above because they will all be small enough.
If you think I missed something or something doesn't make sense, tell me and I'll try to fix it. I'm not great at explaining things, this is just a quicky tutorial, and I'm tired. Hopefully someone will find some use for it though.
This tutorial makes this icon:
It's too big for LJ because I messed up a little, but it serves its purpose for a tutorial.
This is for PSP7 and Animation shop 3, though other versions of the same programs should use the same idea.
This is the effect I'm trying to achieve, it's too big for lj because I messed something up, but it gives you the basic idea.
This is the picture I'm starting out with:
You start by opening the canvas size window (image-canvas size) and deciding what size of picture you'll need. I decided I needed about 300x300 worth of space to get in all the picture I'd need. Then, you uncheck the center image horizontally box, and try to guess where you need to start out on the picture. I guess I'd need it to start about 50 pixels from the left edge, so I put -50 in the left box. Just clicking on the right box changed the number to what it needed to be.
This gave me this:
Now I decided his ears were cut off too much and I needed it to be higher up, so I undo what I did, and then redo what I did before but this time I unchecked the vertical box too. I figure it too might need to be about 50 pixels from the edge, so I put -50 in the top box. Note: If you are sliding right across the image, the vertical number never changes. If you use 50 once, you use it everytime.
that gave me this:
Perfect! Save that as image01 or something, then undo so that you are back to the original image again. Now I just need it to slide to the Hatter. I change the horizontal number by about 20 (I should've used a higher number, like 50 or 75 for this size of image, but 20 works well enough to get the idea).
gives me this, save this as image02 or something (so long as the names save in alphabetical or numerical order):
and I repeat, adding 20 each time so it moves a little each time, saving them in order as you go.
Then I stop when I finally get the Hatter where I want him
now, I open animation shop. I use the animation wizard to make an animation of all of the frames in order.
now I go to Animation-resize animation and change the size to 100x100.
now I select all frames (ctrl+A) and change the speed on them (animation - frame properties - display time). I want it to move fast so I change it from 15 to 10
then I go to the first frame, select only it (by clicking on it) and change it's frame properties to 75. I do the same with the last frame. You can use different speeds, these are just the ones I chose to use.
now if you did everything right you should have this:
if you want it to have text, you could try resizing each frame after you've done with it to 100 x 100, and putting text only on the first and last frames. Then you can skip the resize step above because they will all be small enough.
If you think I missed something or something doesn't make sense, tell me and I'll try to fix it. I'm not great at explaining things, this is just a quicky tutorial, and I'm tired. Hopefully someone will find some use for it though.