Zipper

P-Filiaal | spin-off from Plaatjesmakerij

Zipper

(translated from the Dutch)

You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
(This tutorial was written using PSP 9, but can be done in other versions)
Animation Shop
Zipper-tube (not mine!)

This zipper works a little bit differently than the zipper I mentioned in my other zipper tutorial. By the way: this is not a scrap-tag tutorial. I am only explaining how the zipper works. But in case you like to know where the scraps in the picture come from: Sexy Plaid Nathy's kit. The Erosion alpha (R) was made by Melissa, previously Scrappy Expressions.
Okay, here we go.

Start PSP.
Open a new image, preferably with a dark background colour (92x382 px).

Edit/copy this image.

Launch Animation Shop.

Right click in the workspace and Paste as New Animation. You will see 1 frame now.

Duplicate this frame 9 times (Ctrl-Shift-L) for a total of 10 frames.

Open the zipper-tube. This tube consists of 10 frames.

Highlight all the frames in both animations (Ctrl-A).

Use your mouse to drag the 1st frame of the zipper-animation to the 1st frame of the black image.

Release the mouse-button. The zipper should be in the dark image and the zipper-animation should be empty.

Tip:
If the zipper is not in the right position, don't worry. Click on the undo-button to get rid of the zipper.
Click on the empty zipper-animation and then click on the undo button to get the zipper back.

Edit/copy the black animation with the zipper.

Edit/paste as a new animation.

Select all the frames of the copied animation (keys Ctrl-A).

Go to Animation > Reverse frames.

Edit/copy the copied animation - the one with the reversed frames.

Go to the original animation. Click on the last frame.

Paste the copied animation after the original animation (Edit/Paste after current frame). Now you have 20 frames in total.

Select all (keys Ctrl-A).

Click on the View Animation button to view the animation.

If you like what you see, save as GIF.

Translated into English by Marianne van der Klugt, Plaatjesmakerij, on 22 November 2008
The Dutch tutorial was written on 8 May 2007.

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Please also check out my other zipper tutorial.

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