{"id":134,"date":"2012-05-13T12:58:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T12:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2012-06-03T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T13:50:25","slug":"creating-waving-flag-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Creating Waving Flag Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Preview of the final result<\/h5>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"border\" value=\"1\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rpBqqB13gA0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rpBqqB13gA0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" border=\"1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<h5>Step 1<\/h5>\n<p>First of all, you need to prepare a background image. For this lesson I took a\u00a0800&#215;500 image of the pirate flag:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pirate-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-236\" title=\"pirate-flag\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pirate-flag-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"original image\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pirate-flag-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pirate-flag.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can use this image in Strep 2 to finish the flag animation immediately, but I would perform one more optional step to make this animation better.<\/p>\n<h5>Step 1a<\/h5>\n<p>Create a new 850&#215;550 document in any image editor and fill it with gradient color from color x0078ff to x60a7f7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/background.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-239\" title=\"background\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/background-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"sky background\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/background-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/background.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then load the pirate flag image and put it near the left edge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pirate-flag2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-241\" title=\"pirate-flag2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pirate-flag2-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"final image\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pirate-flag2-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pirate-flag2.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Save the result picture in JPEG format and load into DesktopPaints&#8217; animation editor.<\/p>\n<h5>Step 2<\/h5>\n<p>The last step to create the animation is setting the effect properties to\u00a0&#8220;Underwater&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"effect settings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desktoppaints.com\/img\/faq\/underwater-cb.gif\" alt=\"effect settings\" width=\"516\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preview of the final result Step 1 First of all, you need to prepare a background image. For this lesson I took a\u00a0800&#215;500 image of the pirate flag: You can use this image in Strep 2 to finish the flag animation immediately, but I would perform one more optional step to make this animation better. 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