Lipstick

What you'll need...

My lipstick tubes...lipstick.zip

A font of your choice...I like Forte

And of course PSP and Animation Shop

The easiest way I found to do this was with Animation Shop

So, in AS open all your lipstick tubes

Open a new image....transparent...
I started mine with 500x300....it depends on how long your name is...

Click on your color palette and put in this color....#673f25
Click on A (text)
Choose Forte...size 72....anti alias checked
Type in your name

Place it a bit to the left, but leave room for the lipstick top

Now you'll have to copy that name frame about 16 times for a 5 letter name, so click on copy...then paste after next....etc...etc...
Don't forget...the longer your name the more frames you'll need!

If you find you don't have enough frames, just copy and paste after next again...
Or if you have too much, just delete them...

Ok....now comes the next part.....start from the 4th last....
(I like to start at the end...but some might find it easier to start at the front)

Zoom in and set your eraser to about 15 and erase your last letter about half way..
Go to the frame before and erase a bit more....the closer to the letter the less size...
(hint...I leave a little dot where I want to put my lipstick before the letter appears)

Keep going backwards till you get to frame 3...

Now comes the fun part :-)

Click on your closed lipstick and drag it to your first frame...

Place it underneath your name to the left...

Click on your onionskin....so you can see where you've placed it...

Click on the second frame...
Click on your half opened lipstick tube and drag it on top of the onionskin....

Click on your third frame...while holding shift and right arrow click until you're at the 4th last frame....
Click on your lipstick top and click on 'propagate paste' on your menubar...
Then place it on top of onionskin on the 3rd frame....

Ok...nearly there...highlight frame 1 and 2....copy...
then go to your last frame..and paste after current...

while still selected click on 'animation' on the menu bar...then select 'reverse frames'

Back to your frame 1....with your eraser delete your name....do the same with frame 2...

On the menubar click on propagate paste again to undo it....

Now comes the easy part :-)

Open your full lipstick tube...click on copy....then paste after next...copy about 15 times...

Go to frame 3 and place your lipstick on your first letter....(remember I placed a dot?)
Keep dragging the lipstick to all the other letters in the frame....

Ctrl A....to select all your frames...right click....frame properties....I used 20....

And that's it :-)))

PS...I colorized the tag above...adjust...hue and saturation...colorize....hue 8...sat..45

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