This is my very first tutorial. It was only made possible because Char
was so patient and helpful and encouraging. Thank you so much Char!
You're a sweetie!

I wrote this using PSP7. You can get a 30 day trial here.

Now on with the animation. Oh first we have to make the seal.

This tutorial is for those of you who have enough experience
so that you don't need any one to hold your hand.

It is written by a simple person with simple instructions.

You can download my selections here.

You can make your own ball easy enough.
It does not take a rocket scientist.
Thank goodness. That would leave me out. : )

We will be attempting to make the seal above.

Oh did I say animated seal?
I meant animated ball with seal. But first the seal.

Open an image 500x500 transparent background.
Now open the layer pallette. Create a new layer.
Call it seal if you want.

We don't have that many selections to get confused.

Set the foreground to black and the background to null.

Flood fill the seal with black.
Go to selections, modify, contract 2.
Change your foreground to gray. I used 808080. Flood fill the seal. Deselect.

Add a new layer and download the eyes and nose.
Flood fill with black.
Apply the inner bevel and preset round. Deselect.

Next will be the collar. Make a new layer and load from disk the collar.
Flood fill with black follow the steps for the seal.
Modify, contract 2 and flood fill with your choice of color.
I used a dark blue here. Add a new layer and decorate the collar.
I used hearts and then applied the inner bevel with the preset round.

Next download the whiskers. Flood fill with black. Deselect.

Now on with the markings on his feet and tail.

On a new layer and with the draw tool set at 2 apply two lines on each foot
and one in the middle of his tail.
I did blur it by going to blur. And again Blur.
Not sure if I like the effect but that is what I did.

Now you have the seal. Merge the layers visible on your layer palette.
Move your seal to the bottom of the image with your mover tool
if it is too high on the image.

Make a new layer and with your shapes tool make a circle.
Foreground on black, background on what ever color you would like.
I used a gradient.

Shift D to duplicate until you have four copies.

On the first image place the ball close to his nose.
Rotate the ball 90 degrees.

On the second image make a new layer and place the ball just a little higher.
Rotate this ball 180 degrees.

On the third image Place the ball just a little higher than the first two
and rotate it 270 degrees.

On the last image put the ball up higher than the others but do not rotate it.

Merge each image individually and save all four of your images.
Name them 1, 2, 3, 4, or even Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Daisey.

What ever you choose to call them but remember where you saved them.

Now let's launch the animation wizard.

Have them placed in this order. : ) 1,2,3,4,3,2.

View animation. Save and there you have it! : )

If you have any questions, please e- mail me