How to Get an Animated Background

Print this articleAnimate the backgrounds of your images by using image manipulation programs to create the frames for an animated GIF. Make sure you chose a program with layering features before starting this project. Layers are virtual transparencies that form a complete image when stacked atop one another. Layers can also become the frames of an animated sequence, including a sequence you can store as an animated GIF. GIFs can only store 256 colors, so image quality may decrease when you animate a background.

Related Searches:Difficulty:ModerateInstructions Paint.NET1

Click the File menu's "Open" command, and then navigate to and double-click a picture whose background you'd like to animate. Paint.NET will load the image.

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Click the toolbar icon shaped like a blue balloon to enter selection mode. Drag the mouse over the outline separating the foreground from the background to select the background. Press and "Control" and "X" simultaneously to cut out the background.

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Click the "Layer" panel's page icon to create a new layer, and then press "Control" and "V" simultaneously to paste the cutout background onto the new layer.

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Press "Control" and "S" simultaneously to display the "Save" dialog. Type a file name in the "Name" text box, and then click "Save" to save the file.

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Click the toolbar icon shaped like a "

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How to Use Animated Sprites in Eclipse

Print this articleAnimated sprites let you display images that move in your Java applications. Eclipse is the main Java application that lets you create servlets, desktop apps and Web apps. Animated sprites are typically used in Web projects, but you can use them in any Java project. To use the sprites, you must insert the animation into the section of code that places objects in the main Java form.

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Open the Eclipse software and open the project you want to edit. Double-click the Java source code file you want to use to display the animation.

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Add the libraries for the animation Java functions. Copy and paste the following code to the top of the file:

import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.

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