Preparation. Download the
Ariston font and open it or install it to your windows font
folder.
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1. Click the new button to open a new
canvas. I used 400 X 300.
2. Click the text tool and choose a nice
font with rather wide letters so the sparkle will show. Set up the mode to
2d for now. Here, I've used the ariston font.
Click on the canvas so the text box opens. Type in your text. Click
ok.
Set the size to 72 in the attribute bar. Click on the transform
tool and squeeze it in so the text is about 250 X 50 for the word welcome.
Your sizing may be different but keep in mind that the larger the graphics
are the larger in disk size they will be.
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3.
Click on your gallery section of the easy palette, and find the
gel presets in the Material gallery. I used my own
gel presets for this but you may use the ones that come with pi 7.
you like :)
With the text selected double click on the gel preset of
your choice. .
Right click/ click shadow to modify the shadow.
Change the x and y offset to 1, the transparency to 0, and the soft
edge to 0. This will give you a nice hard shadow.
OR, simply
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4. Right click/ Duplicate this
text two times so that you have a total of 3 on your canvas. Move
them so that you can see all three.
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5. With the top one
selected, click effect/ add noise. Set the variance to 20, uniform,
and click ok.
Select the next one, go to effect/ add noise,
and set the variance to 25.
Select the last one, go to effect/
add noise, and set the variance to 30.
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6. Right click, select all
objects, and click the pick tool to arrange all three right on top
of each other using the center both button.
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7. With all three still
selected, go to edit/ crop. This will crop your canvas to the
precise size of your text.
8. Go to file/ save, and save this
as a ufo file.
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9. If you have a switch command
in the upper right hand corner of the pi screen, click it and choose
Gif animator. I don't have that in my pi for some reason. If you
don't you can open Gif animator by going to web/ helper program, and
browsing to your pi folder. Click on GA Main.exe. Then it will be
available to you next time you want to use gif
animator.
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10. When gif animator opens,
click open an existing image file in the wizard. This will open a
windows dialog box allowing you to browse to the folder containing
your ufo.
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11. In the object manager, right
click on the background, and click delete.
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12. Select all the
objects in the object manager, and right click then distribute to
frames. (Tip: Hold down control while clicking on each object to
select them all. )
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13. Down at the bottom of your screen
you will now see three frames. Select all by clicking on them one at a
time while holding down the control key.
Right click and click frame
properties. Set the delay to 20. This is how fast or how slowly the frame
will be displayed when animated. Click ok.
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14. Now you can test your
animation by clicking the triangle at the left hand side under the
frames. Play with the delay until you get something YOU like.
:)
When you've seen enough just click the square to stop playing
it.
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| 15. Click the optimize tab. In
the attribute bar there is a matte option. Clicking it will let you
choose a color on which you will be displaying the image. Or you can
choose a background image if you like. There is also the option
None. This will make the background transparent. However, in my
tests I was not too pleased with this option so opted for choosing a
background image. Below it is displayed on a black background. While
it looks great on the background it was intended for, it looks
jagged on a black one. Choosing a matte color or background image
allows the jaggies to blend in so they are not
noticeable.
You can see that there are a few
blueish pixels around the letters. The black does allow the colors
to stand out though.. Next time I will optimize this image for a
black background by choosing black for the matte color. :) Above,
you will see the image as it displays on my background.
This
could also be attractive applied to path shapes and you could even
try it on images :) Below this table you can see one I did by
applying this effect to the wings of the angel I made with
sinedots. Have fun! :)
After setting up your
matte color or background, click the save button to save your work.
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