We are now going to get the image ready for the animation. There are a few differant ways of doing this. I have chosed to do it this way, which is make 3 layers in one image vs making 3 seperate images and running them together in Animation Wizard. I find that this technique is easier and faster when doing animation tags for a group using differant names.

11. With the dancing ants still marching in the text. Make 2 copies of the image (Shift D). You should have 3 images total.

12. We will now add the water drops. Using Eye Candy 4000 click on Water Drops.

Image 1 of 3: Apply the following settings.Your text should come up as in the picture above. Then o.k.

Image 2 of 3: Apply Water Drops to this image EXCEPT when it is open, click on "RANDOM SEED" The drops will be just a little differant than the first one.

Image 3 of 3: Repeat the step above, apply the drops and click on "Random Seed" and click ok

13. You should have the 3 images with water drops. That wasn't too hard. They should be aligned as in image 11 above. This will get confusing if you are not organized. Actually, the next steps are the easiest to do but can get confusing.

1. Apply Drop Shadow to all of the images (You can do it twice using the settings as in steps 4 & 5). Drop shadows will make your text "pop" and flow with the image that you have dropped shadowed. NOTE: You must use the same settings for all images or the animation will look funky.

2. To all images, "select none"

3. To all images, "Layers" "Merge Visable"

14.The image above looks scarey. Read this text and look at the image and it should click on what to do.

1. Click image 1, copy image 1 and paste as a new layer on image 3

2. Click on image 2, copy image 2 and past as a new layer on image 3

NOTE: Image 3 should have 3 layers (Merged, Layer 1 and Layer 2)

*****Image 3 is the one that we want. Save it as a psp file to your computer where you will find it. I called mine marti.psp

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15. Open Animation Wizard and run the wizard using the next pictures as your settings.

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