ADDING THE SPARKLE STAR

Step 1.

With you  animation still open in GA  click on the Add image button to add your sparkle star.

This will insert as one frame. Now  the sparkle is a little big so click on the Transform icon on the left toolbar.

Step 2.

Now grab the corner and make the sparkle star smaller, then click on it and move it into  position, I placed mine on the top of the tree. That is the first frame done. :-))

Step 3.

Goto: your Tool Menu on the left-hand side and choose the Pick tool, The Pick tool is the best tool to use, when you have to move an object in GA

Highlight frame 2 open the eye of the next coloured tree up one layer,  (by now you know what I mean when I say eye :-))

highlight the Sparkle Star layer and move the Sparkle Star into the next position down and to the right.

Step 4.

Highlight frame 3, open the eye of the next tree up one layer and move the Sparkle Star into the next position down and to the left.  Do this to each frame.

 I also duplicate a couple of frames so that the Sparkle Star had a bit more distance. In total I had 7 frames

A screenshot of what my Object Manager looks like in GA

and what my running board looks like in GA

I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial and that it has helped you to understand how I add a Sparkle Star to my animations.

Please feel free to  print this tutorial out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way  to put on-line, pass out, or re-write and claim as your own!

Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written on the 22nd December 2006

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