Background color to white, foreground color locked.
Open the COMSCRTN.TTF font and minimize it.
Click with your text tool in your image.
Find CommercialScript B font with these settings.
If you use a large text, you have to set the font size smaller.
Type first word or paragraph.
Effects > Texture effects > Sculpture.
Notice you don't have to convert!
PSP 8, 9 & 10 will do it for you. Click OK.
Use the preset silver but use this color #755592.
Apply.
Effects > 3D effects >
Drop shadow.
Use your last setting (at 2) but use white as your shadow color.
Type your second line and repeat the sculpture and drop shadow.
Go back to your tube, select the little swan.
Copy and paste 3 times on your image.
Watch!!!! Every little swan on its own layer......
So 3 times: Paste > As a new layer.
Now we save our images for AS.
Lock your text layers and the little swan layers.
Merge all layers flatten.
Version 3.06 doesn't recognize *.pspimage in PSP 8,
9 & 10
format so save as a PSP 7 file. This is how:
Save as > click options and choose save as PSP 7 or 6 file.
Attention..... from now on, everything will be saved as a
PSP 7 / 6 file so if you want to save as an 8 file, reset in options!
Save as swan-1.pspimage.
Undo merging.
Edit > Undo, or: .
Open your first text line and the little swan in the back.
Merge all layers.
Save as swan-2.pspimage.
Undo merging.
Open your second text line and the little swan in the
middle, activate the layer with the little swan.
Image > resize > 110% (all layers unchecked).
Place the swan a little higher.
Lock off the layer with the swan in the back.
Merge all layers.
Save as swan-3.pspimage.
Undo merging.
Open your last swan and lock off the layer with the middle swan.
The little swan in the back must be locked off too.
Activate the front swan layer (= blue).
Image resize with 120% (all layers unchecked).
Place a little higher.
Merge all layers.
Save as swan-4.pspimage.
Click undo, till you see your three swans again.
Save this file as a PSP file for later use, with another text.
This way you can alter the text and put the
swans into place. Save as swan-base.pspimage.
Open Animation Shop (AS) follow the screenshots.
Add your 4 images.
Make sure, they are in the right order.
If not, you can click the up and down buttons.
Your animation will show now in AS.
Click to play it.
We will save the Swan-tag now.
You're done with this Swan tag.
I hope you did like this tutorial?
But most of all... learned something about PSP 8.
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Translation
into English by my best friends, Trudie.
Thanks sweetie! Couldn't do it without you.
your image. 
your text layers and the little swan layers.
.
follow the screenshots.
to play it.
