Materials: Colour
Worm
Font Bellbotom



Click in the colour and the worm with your right mousebutton and click
on save as...

1. Open a new transparant image of 500/200.

2. Foregroundcolour on Black, backgroundcolour on green.

3. Activate your teksttool and use the following settings:



4. You will now see the word with a dotted line around it.
Selection/ Modify/ Contract with 2.

5. Effects/ 3-D/ Innerbevel with the following settings:



6. Selections/ Select None.

7. Double click on the selectiontool and you will get this screen:



8. Select the same settings as in the example and click on OK.
You will see the dotted line around the word.
Image/ Crop to selection, now we lost all the superfluous space.

9. In your layerpalet you copy this layer until you have 22 layers.

10. Save this and open animationshop.

11. In animationshop you open your image and the image of the worm.

12. Now click on your propagate paste symbol
(the 3 white sheets under eachother).

13. Click on edit/ select all, like the example on both the frames:



14. Click on the blue bar of your worm-animation with your right
mousebutton.
There will appear a screen, click on Copy.

15. Now click on the blue bar of your word to activate it.

16 Click on Edit/ paste/ into selected frame, put the worm where you
want it.

18. Close the wormanimation.

19. Now we have to adjust the speed of the frames, frame 1 untill 7
are correct, click on frame 8 with your right mousebutton and click on
frame proportions and put this one on 30, frame 9-10-11 on 20, 12-13
on 40, frame 14 on 50, frame 15 on 100, frame 16 until 21 are okay
and the last frame, 22, on 100.

20. Save the image as a GIF and give it a name.





Original tutorial © Shell 2005