Supplies Needed:
PSP 8,9,10
Animation Shop
Pixal Sheet



Now I wrote this tutorial to be more of a guide than an exact thing, your results may and will vary from mine. Because there are really no exact measurements that I can give you when creating the blocks for the letters. You should have a pretty good working knowledge of the Paint Shop Pro program for this.

Ok lets get started, you may need to adjust you settings and so on depending on the pixel graphic that you choose from the sheet that I supplied.





1. Open a new transparent image 300 X 300 this will give you plenty of room to work.

2. Now choose the pixel that you want to use, you may need to crop it with your cropping tool because some of them have more than one on a layer. I needed to crop the one I chose.

3. Now copy it and paste it onto your canvas as a new layer, now go to view, and select "rulers" this will help you when you make the blocks.

4. Now select 2 colors from the pixel that you selected, a light color and a dark color.

5. Now grab your preset shape tool rectangle rounded, make sure that the "retain style" is unchecked and "create as a vector" & Anti-alias" is checked, width:1.00, have the dark color as your foreground color and the light color as your background color, and draw a square, use your ruler to draw it the correct size.

6. Now once you have your first block, convert it to a raster layer, and grab your mover tool and position it where you need it to be, Now duplicate it and move the duplicate layer over to the right, and make sure they line up and evenly spaced, if you look at your ruler, you will see that where the center of your mover tool makes a line on it up at the top and on the left hand side.

7. Duplicate the block until you have the needed amount of blocks that the name or word has that you are going to be placing inside the blocks.

8. Now merge down the block layers. Do not merge the original pixel layer to the blocks, this is just incase you need to adjust the position of it later.

9. Now place your dark color as the background color on your color pallet, grab your text tool, I used the font Arial Rounded MT Bold, this is a standard font that you should already have in your PC, I put my size to 8 and created it as a vector. Have the foreground color nulled out. Put one letter in each box, after you make the letter, convert it to a raster layer, you may need to use the nodes to resize it before converting it. Don't worry about placing it right now, you can do that after you get all of your letters done. Because that way you are not switching from the text tool to the mover tool a lot.

10. Now once you have your letters on your blocks and placed them as need be, close out the bottom 3 layers, and merge visible.

11. If you need to reposition the blocks or the pixel image do so now, if not merge visible again. **NOTE You may need to wait on merging it visible depending on the letters, the bear one I had to merge it after I flood filled the letters then I just copied it over to AS .

12. Now copy this and paste it as a new image, the larger example that you see the size it was 188 X 26 and I resized it to 100 X 14. You may not need to resize it, it all depends on the main pixel image. The bear above wasn't resized.

13. Open Animation Shop.

14. Now flood fill the first letter, you want to use a separate color than you are already using, I used white, you can use black.. or another color.. Then right click and copy. **NOTE** if you haven't merged it before flood filling the first letter, please remember to do so before copying it. Now Paste it over to Animation Shop as a new animation.

15. Now go back to PSP and click your undo button and now flood fill the next letter, and copy it over to Animation Shop "after current frame".

16. Now you are going to want to repeat the above step, until you have done this with each letter.

17. Now in Animation Shop, animate it, if the animation is too fast to your liking, close out the animation, and all you need to do is go to edit, select all… then go to Animation ~ Frame properties, and the higher the number.. the slower it goes….the lower the number.. the faster it goes.

Save it and you are done!