A Paint Shop Pro tutorial by Sevenoaks Art
Download
the files required for psp tutorial here
Once you have unzipped the files create
a folder on your hard drive name it swing (or whatever you like)
and place
in it the jpegs swing1x, swing2x, swing3x, swing6x, swing7x,
Blankx and blankswing.gif
Navigate to
and
place all 5 swing script files in it (Jasc PSP Script)
Open up PSP8 and check
that you have all 5picturespin script files.
Click to make sure
that you have the script toolbar on display
You should have all
picture spin scripts as illustration above
Make sure that the
Interactive Script playback toggle is not highlighted 
Open up the image you
want to use and crop it square then Do not worry too much if it is
pixilated
I have used a picture
of my cat Tia
Using the browser navigate to your swing folder
Drag out blankx from the browser. Select your image by clicking
on top border to highlight it blue. - select blankx -
Click
You should have image as below - it is
essential that the image is dead square on the green background
Save this image, close it and open it again, I have called mine
"Tia"
Making sure that you
have selected "Tia" run Selected script swing1 by
clicking on arrow 
If you have left it
in interactive playback mode you will have to click OK to each
dialogue box - for swing2 turn off
playback toggle
You should have this
Drag out swing1x from
the browser and then select "Tia"-
Select swing1x -
Now we have to be very
careful here as once you have pasted "Tia" in everything
looks fine but it is not.
On the layer toolbar
(Drag out wider if necessary) select the layer you have just
pasted (Raster 1) and move the
slider to the right of the eye to about 80
You should have this
With the "move
tool" 
move transparent "Tia" and align her with the darker
green image behind her
Move the transparency
slider on the layer toolbar back to 100 and then save as "anyname"1
(Agree to merged image and save as JPEG) and then close it
Return to "Tia" click the undo last command button
and return back to original image.
Drag swing2x- rename"anyname2" and repeat as we did
with swing1x but using swing2 script on "Tia"
Drag swing3x- rename"anyname3" and repeat as we did
with swing1x but using swing3 script on "Tia"
Drag swing6x- rename"anyname6" and repeat as we did
with swing1x but using swing6 script on "Tia"
Drag swing7x- rename"anyname7"
and repeat as we did with swing1x but using swing7 script on
"Tia"
Close everything and
then open Animation Shop
Open the animation
wizard Select same size as first image
on first dialogue box
Select transparent on next dialogue box
Leave settings on third next box
Select repeat animation and frame display as 15 seconds on next
dialogue box
Then add images, files
of type JPG , select files "anyname" 1,2,3 6,7 and
arrange as below
Click next and Finish
Make the background
transparent - - replace
colour -select all frames use the eye dropper to select the
background green colour. You will have to experiment with the
tolerance setting as it will sometimes make part of the image
transparent , if it does use a lower setting until your image
is opaque and the background is transparent
Note number of frames
in this case is 5
Click OK and then
and
resize to 40% of original.
You will have this
but as this animation has repeat frames we will need to copy
and paste some frames in
Select frame F2 (A
blue border appears as in F1 above) then Select F3 and
Select frame F1 then
Select F4 and
Select frame F6
then Select F7 and
You should have this
Click to make sure it swings
nicely - if it does not check your sequence - you can rearrange
frames by dragging them and dropping them into the border between
frames
Now we will bring out
the swinging sign.
- navigate
to blankswing.gif and open it.
Click on registration
mark tool 
then click corner of frame1 in the blankswing as below
You can use the middle wheel on your mouse to zoom
Then click on the corner
of frame 1 in the animation you have just made
Click on arrow
button (first button as illustrated here)
Click on frame 1 of
the animation you just made (In my case "Tia") and
with shift and arrow right key highlight all.
Now the good bit! Drag frame one of "Tia" down onto
frame one of blankswing and release - a new animation is
created. Make sure that you dragged from frame one to frame
one , if it went wrong just click the top of
each animation and click the undo button
save as best quality on pointer, click customize
button and on partial transparency tab use these settings
Save to folder of your
choice and name as required.
Good Luck
