TITLE: Animated Pixel Water

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate, Knowledge of PhotoImpact Tools
Program: Ulead Photo Impact Version 10

TOOLS USED: Paint Brush (in Mode)

DESCRIPTION:Learn how to make pixels water and how to animated it.

Features:Lots of Patients

Inspired by a PSP tutorial Click here to go there.

Author: Ginny Price

You'll be making just the water tile if you don't go on to page 2.

Your final image will be 100x100 if you go on to the next page or 16x16 pixel tile following the tut. The larger size is for the tutorial

Open a new image 16x16 pixels Grab your paint brush click in mode

zoom IN AT 800% this lets you see your canvas

Using your paint brush with these
settings
brush size 1
Transparency 0 soft edge 0
Hex #97C6EA

Paint your canvas till it's all covered (in Mode)

This is the tile you will make. your tile will be 16x16 pixels

Water tile.

1st stage of your tile

Click out of Mode change your brush color to hex #6A9ABF
Click back into mode Paint random pixels on your image.Like image 2 example

Click out of Mode change your brush color to hex #43759C
Click back into mode Paint random pixels on your image.Like image 3 example

Click out of mode right click Select all and merge as a single object.

Right click duplicate 3 times Open your layer manager. Select the 2nd image transform tool rotate left 90 degrees
Select the 3rd image. transform tool rotate right 90 degrees
select the 4th image transform tool rotate 180 degrees

Select all align center both. Save as a ufo.

Go to your object manager in gif animator select all your objects by holding ctrl & click on all your images in the object manager. right click object manager and click distribute to frames. (Option you can delete the background if you want..Just right click and delete.)

next
set delay around 10
preview your animation.
Make any changes you want to your image.

That's it your all done...

Your finished tile