Making an animated butterfly girl
The first thing you will want to do is find a picture of a a subject. I found this one of my daughter.

I cut her out of the picture and pasted her to a image that is 400 x 300 on a transparent background.

The next thing you will want to do is to get some wings. I used this one. You can click on it to get it as a tub.

Add a new layer and put one of the wings on, Now go up to you layer palette, click on the layer that you wing is on, right click and duplicate that layer.

Once you have duplicated that layer, now go to Image, Mirror and mirror that layer. Drag these two layers under your
subject layer. To drag the layer under just click on the layer you want to move, hold down the left mouse button
and drag it under the subject layer.
Now your image should look something like this one.

If you want to place this on a background, then now is the time you will want to add the background layer.
Make sure you place it as a new layer and drag it below all the other layers.

Now we are going to copy these images (Shift D) three times. This keeps all the layers there which is very important.
Minimize all but one of the images.

Make one of your wing layers active (go to the layer palette and click it, this makes it the active layer).
I am starting with the wing on the left.
Now go over to the left tool bar and click the deformation tool.

Now you will see that it placed a box around your left wing.

Now take your cursor over to the left side, middle box of the deformation box. When you do this, look down in the left
corner, write down the numbers, we will need them. Check the images below.

WIth your mouse over the left middle box of the deformation box, and having the numbers written down, hold down the left mouse button
and drag the left side of the box in about 5 pixels. Double click and a box is going to pop up, click yes. Now go to the other wing and
do the same thing. This time when the deformation box is around the wing, go to the right side, middle box.

Once you are done with the deformation, go to layers, merge visible and save this image. I saved mine as a.psp
Minimize or close out that window. Open up the next window. You will repeat the above deformations, making sure that
with each wing you go in 5 pixels more than you did with the previous image. Save the next two images as b.psp and c.psp
or whatever you choose.

Now it is time to take this thing to the animation shop. Animation Shop! Click on the Animation Wizard

On the first window that pops up, just click the next button, click next again, click next again, when the
next window comes up, use the settings that I have used below.

Click next now in this window you are going to add your images you want to animate. I added a, b, c , b so my
window looks like this.

the reason I added the b image in at the last is to make it a little more smooth.
Once you have the images inserted in there, click next, now click finish. All your images will come up
in a slide like image. Click on the View Animation button at the top tool bar.

And watch your animation in action. Now all you have to do is save it. See that was painless wasn't it?

Here is my finished animation!

Tutorial by Leigh.

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