Lipstick Sig

When you've done all the letters, open the lipstick tube and go to Edit > Copy

Go to your first frame and click in it to select it.

Now go to Edit > Paste into selected frame.

Using your mouse, move the lipstick to the centre of the cross and click once to position it.

Now go to frame 2 and go to Edit > Paste into selected frame.

Again, move the mouse until the lipstick is positioned on the end of the letter and click once to position it.

Repeat this process on every frame...

until you get to the last letter.

You now have 2 options.... you can either delete all remaining frames, crop your sig and save it or you can carry on with the tutorial and add the lips :o)

TO ADD THE LIPS:

When you get to the end of the last letter, go to the next frame and erase all the letters in that frame then delete all remaining frames after the blank one as you don't need them now.

Open your lips tube and go to Edit > Copy

Click in the blank frame and go to Edit > Paste into selected frame.

Click once when you've got the lips in position.

No go to Edit > Select All then Animation > Frame Properties.

Set the frame speed to 15

Now click back on the frame with the text and the last lipstick....the one before the lips frame.

Go to Effects > Insert Image Transition and use the following settings:

Click on the Crop tool and click on the options button

Click on Surround the opaque area then click OK

A box will appear around the lips/text

Click on the Crop button

Click on the last frame which should be the lips, and right click. Go to Frame Properties and set the frame speed to 100.

Save your animation.

Now I'd usually say you were done but with this type of sig you usually have to do some tidying up!

Go to File > Preferences > General Program Preferences

Click on Transparency

The canvas check background default setting is white and grey as you can see from my screenshots, we're going to change the colours to make it easier to see any stray pixels we may have missed.

Now click in each colour window to get the colour palette to open and set both boxes to dark blue.

Now use the zoom tool to zoom in on your sig so it's really big.

Look at each frame and if you see any stray pixels, erase them:

Now go back to your general program preferences and put the transparency colours back by clicking on the drop down box and clicking on Light Grey.

The reason we saved the sig before cleaning up the stray pixels is because the pixels are a lot easier to see once the sig has been optimized ;)

And now you're done!!

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial.

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