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
