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[nancy_drew]

GUESTBOOK

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[diabological]

First save the gif you want to use as a background.

Then open psp and animation shop. Open the picture in animation shop.

Save each frame individually as a gif.

Open each frame with ms paint and save each one as a 24 color bmp.

Give the files the same name, only the number should be different so that they show up together in a folder.

th_blossomroad1
th_blossomroad2
th_blossomroad3
th_blossomroad4
th_blossomroad5
th_blossomroad6

Move the bmps to My computer: C: program files: jasc software: paint shop pro: patterns

Open paint shop pro.

Make a new 100x100 image. Put your face in the image. Make sure everything around your face is erased.

Once you have 100x100 of your face, with a clear background, click SHIFT-D to duplicate it. You need one image for every frame in the background. Mine has six frames so I need five duplications (the original makes it add to six).

Select the fill tool.

Then click on the triangle that makes the saved patterns come up. It's under the colorbar in the little swatch that shows you what color is selected. Select the first background bmp you saved in the patters folder.

I set it to th_blossomroad1.
Fill the background of the first image.
Then choose th_blossomroad1 and fill the background of the second image.

There should be a different background pattern for each image.

Export each one individually as a gif.

Then open animation shop. Click the icon shaped like a filmstrip for new animation.

Set the size to 100x100 and keep clicking next until it asks you to add images. Add the gifs you just exported.

Then save.

Your icon should be completed.



I used this background:


2 notes:
The glitter sweater I'm wearing I added in an extra step that I didn't write down here. This just explains how I put the background behind myself.

Also, it seems that when you save a bmp to the patterns folder it gets tilted. You may be able to see that the background is tilted behind my head. In some images this will matter, in some it won't. I'm sure there is a way to tilt the frames before saving them so that they appear straight when they come out of the patterns folder, but I haven't worked that part out yet.

Does this help?

[nancy_drew]

yes, thank you...i'm going to try it out tomorrow. i wish we lived down the street or something. and why are we up so late?

[diabological]

I wish we did live down the street. I can no longer sleep unless I pass out from utter exhaustion. Otherwise I sit up feeling like a horrible person.

I'm glad you asked me how to do this because it wouldn't have occured to me to try it otherwise.

Why are you up so late?

[nancy_drew]

i haven't been sleeping well lately, i've been stressed out. and i sleep too much during the day. i have to work on this issue sooner or later. melatonin works sometimes but i just sleep more and more, it's amazing.