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Make Twirly Phrases

You're going to need Animation Shop or some type of animation program for this tutorial. I use animation shop 3.

Step ONE

1)Open up a blank new document. You choose the size for how big you want your text to be. I'm going to do 350x200. Background color doesn't matter in this case.

Step TWO

2)Click on the text tool and select a font to use to type your phrase on the document. Type whatever phrase you wanted to type. Remember, if you're a site owner, this is the time to also type in your copyright web url.

Step THREE

3)Select all by using the shortcut Ctrl + A or go to Selections --> Select All. Before you do anything else, go to Layers --> Merge --> Merge All (flatten). Now paste Ctrl + V 3 times to make a total of 4 frames. It should look like the image on the left. There are 4 of the same exact images. If you click paste and only your copyright web url shows, you forgot to merge all under layers. If the 3 layers that you just pasted are raster, go to Layers --> Merge --> Merge All (flatten). DO this to all 3 copies. Now you're ready to fill the text in.

Step FOUR

4)Click on the color panel and click on the gradient tab. Choose a gradient that you would like to use and set the Angle to 0. Fill in the text (this is only on one frame). Save the frame into a folder where you can remember. When you save, name each frame exactly the same with a number of 1,2,3, etc. at the end. It makes them easier to select when we put them together.

Step FIVE

5)After you saved one frame, go onto the next frame. Change the angle of the gradient to 90. Fill in the text. After you save that one, fill in the next frame with an angle of 180. After saving that one, fill in the last frame with a gradient angle of 270 degrees. Save that one and you should be set to go onto animation shop! (sry for the HORRIFIC picture quality)

Step SIX

6)Open up animation shop3 and after it's done loading, click on the Animation Wizard. If you don't know how that looks like, it's this . Follow the following steps:

• Same size as the first image frame
• Transparent
• Upper Left corner of the frame
• With the canvas color
• Yes, play the animation indefinitely
• 10

Now click Add Image and find the folder where you saved all of the 4 frames. Click and drag as shown in the image above and then click next and then finish. Save the animation in a folder where you can remember it and upload it to photobucket or some image host. Good job! I hope you're excited learning this new skill. Please give credit to ShadowedLife for this tutorial as it was the idea of Joon himself to create these unique nice looking graphics. Thank You!

FINAL PRODUCT

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