I have tried several tutorials for the twist tags and I can not get them to work the way I want so I wrote this tutorial. It was inspired by several tutorials and I thank you all. Any similarities to another tutorial is coincidential.

The only tools needed are PSP8 (or earlier version), Animation Shop, a fat font of your choice and a tube of your choice. (The tube should be longer in width than height or easily resized to approximately 250 X 150)

LETS GET TWISTING!

1. Open your tube into Paint Shop Pro. Copy your tube, SHIFT + D. Close the original tube and work with the copy.

2. Resize your tube if needed. IMAGE > RESIZE You want the size to be approximately 250 X 150.

then

3. Your tube should be centered in your canvas. If needed, use your mover tool to place the tube.

4. Once you are satisfied with your tube, save it as a pspimage file. FILE > SAVE AS

then

**NOW FOR OUR TEXT**

5. While your tube image is active, check your status barfor the width and height settings. Open a new image the same size as your tube image. FILE > NEW

then

6. In your Materials Palette choose your foreground and background colors/gradient/texture you wish to use for your text.

7. Activate your text tool . In the Tool Options Palette - Create as: Vector, Select your font and size (according to your text), Stroke=1, Antialias is checked, Align Center, Font Style Bold

8. Click on image to bring up the text entry box and type in your text, click apply

9. You will now have a box with nodes around your text. Using your mouse and the nodes, adjust your text to your liking. (By creating as a vector layer you will not lose quality by adjustments you make.) Have your text adjusted to use most of your canvas.

10. Once you have your text as you want, go to your layer palette then right click on the vector layer. Convert to raster layer.

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11. Go to your layer palette and delete any blank layers by right clicking on the layer to bring up a menu and delete.

12. If you wish you can choose to put an inner bevel on your text. EFFECTS > 3D EFFECTS > INNER BEVEL

You can also choose any other effects you would like to apply to your text.

13. Once you are satisfied with your text, FILE > SAVE as a pspimage file.

**NOW LET'S ANIMATE**

14. Open Animation Shop FILE > JASC SOFTWARE PRODUCTS > LAUNCH ANIMATION SHOP

15. Open the tube psp file you saved in step 4 into Animation Shop. Click the Open File icon

Browse for the file, double click on the file. This will open file into A.S.

16. Repeat steps to open the text psp file you saved in step 13. You now should have 2 animations, one with your text, one with your tube, both should be a single frame.

(If you do have more than one frame activate the blank frame(s) and delete.)

17. We are going to copy the tube animation onto the text animation. Activate the tube animation, click on frame1 to make it the active frame. EDIT > COPY

18. Activate the text animation. Click on the frame1 to select text frame. EDIT > PASTE > After current frame

You will now have this:

You can now minimize the tube animation frame.

19. On your text animation click on Frame1(text) to activate. EFFECTS > INSERT IMAGE TRANSITION

Use the following settings:
START WITH AND END WITH - Animation Frame dotted

Transition Length = 1 seconds, Frames per second = 4, Effects = Twist Click OK

20. Click on Frame1 again to activate. ANIMATION > FRAME PROPERTIES and change the 10 to 30. Click ok

21. Activate last frame. ANIMATION > FRAME PROPERTIES and change the 10 to 30. Click ok.

22. EDIT > SELECT ALL then EDIT > COPY

Select the last frame by clicking on it

EDIT > PASTE > After current selection. LEAVE SELECTED

23. ANIMATION > REVERSE FRAMES

24. View your animation VIEW > ANIMATION and you should see your animation.

25. Resize your animation if needed by 85-90%. ANIMATION > RESIZE ANIMATION

26. FILE > SAVE click next your optimizer

****YOU ARE DONE****
Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Here are other ones I have done: