Putting Alphas together in Animation Shop
By LadyFae

First off you will need Animation Shop.

Jasc Animation Shop V3.11

Animation Shop has high-quality easy-to-use creative effects, features, and optimization options for Web graphic designers of every level. Whether used as a standalone application or as a complement to Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Animation Shop gives you the ability to easily create buttons, banners, and other cool animations.
Quickly create new and fun animations and banners with step-by-step wizards
Easily position and edit animation frames in the Onionskin Preview mode
Spice-up animations with professional-quality effects and transitions
Easily optimize and save an animation for any destination, including the Web


http://FTP.jasc.com/pub/en/ani311en.exe 

Now that you got A.S. Installed lets open up an alpha to work with. I am using one of my own creations (GiggleFae Alpha) Below you can receive this alpha

http://rapidshare.com/users/A6QWWN  password: alphas



First off open all letters you are going to use. In my example I will be using Donnita. I will be using one capital letter with the animated alphas picture on it and 6 small letters with only letters on it.



Next you are going to highlight the first frame on the capital letter.



<I tabIndex=-1>Now you are going to Animation at the top and you will have a drop down window where you will see resize animation. Click on it



Click box Actual/Print Size



Now see the pixie size


Which is (w)224 x(h) 217 write these numbers down.

Now let us go on to the small letters. We are going to do the same steps as above with these letters.(w) 87 x (h) 107.

We have one (w) with 224 and six small (w) with 87 a total of 746 (w).

We have one (h) with 217 so the height will not change.

So now go to top and click on File, click on new


Now you will put in (w) 746 (h) 217 and check Canvas Color transparent.



Click Ok. Now go back to top and click on Animation; Insert Frames; Empty.



Put in Number of frames 2

Insert before frames 1

Frame delay time 10



Click ok.

Put up you capital letter with picture with 3 frames



Go to top and click on edit, select all this will highlight all frames in blue (an easier way would be ctrl A).



Go back to edit; and click Propagate Paste.



Then back to edit; click copy. Now pull up you blank frames you made.

<I tabIndex=-1>Then go to edit; paste into selected frames.

Now place it where you want it. Now I bring up the small o and go to edit; copy.



Then I click on my new frames that I put in my capital letter and go to edit; paste into selected frames. Then align it where you want it to go.

Now do the same procedure for all the other letters.

You will have some space left. So let’s clean it up.



Go to toolbar And click the forth one which is the crop tool And highlight the area you want to keep



Then double click the area and wala.

Click view (at the top); animation and see your animation.