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suzib » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:39 am
well, if you really want to know..here goes
first thing I did was goggle for the background, bunny,ball, gifts, star, and dove..to make it easy I chose ones with white backgrounds (makes seperating so easy) for the bow I took one off my tree and took a picture of it . Once you get all your objects and backgrounds deleted..you need to decide in what order you want to add them. start with the background image and the tree...get them the way you want once that is done merge them, duplicate that layer..drag you first shape onto that layer..resize if needed and put where you want it...merge that shape layer with the tree layer below it..duplicate that layer again..drag next shape onto it..put in place..merge down again..duplicate. You keep doing this until you have it the way you want. On two of my layers I used two shapes, if you do that makes sure you merge both with the tree layer. In the end I had about 14 layers. The only problem I had was went I tried to save to web as a gif, I was told the image was to big. so I went back and cropped as a 8 x 10 at 72dpi. Then I could save as an animated gif. I also changed the speed from .2 to 1 so it would go slower. I hope this makes sense, if not ask me and I will try to explain better. Have fun and give it a try. It is easy just very repetitive.
