Audience: business or civic group
Message: Bless us as individuals as we grow in our professional and personal lives.
Tone: formal
Timing: 1 minute

Our Heavenly Father, bless this food that we have enjoyed tonight and its nourishment for our continued strength and health. We also ask that You bless all those who have so capably handled the details of this event to make the evening profitable and meaningful for all of us.

Thank You for the ideas and insights that have been shared. Help us to use them to grow as business professionals and as family members. Enrich our lives because of our attendance and contributions among this group of friends and associates.

We thank You for Your provisions and Your ongoing protection. Keep us mindful that we are in Your service while on this earth.

Thin’s you will need:

1. Photoshop or Paintshop (any versions)
2. Xara3D 5.xx
3. Jasc animation shop 3.xx
4. A pic you want as a logo

Thin’s you MIGHT need:
1. a computer
2. Internet connection
3. consciousness
4. corn on de cob

Here dey are for your convinience:
Adobe Photoshop CS v8.0
www.shareordie.com/index.php?showto…85&hl=Photoshop

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9.0 Retail
www.shareordie.com/index.php?showto…&hl=Jasc&st=100

Xara3D 5.02
www.shareordie.com/index.php?showtopic=6512&hl=XARA

Jasc Animation Shop 3.11
www.shareordie.com/index.php?showtopic=34928&hl=

Steps:
1. Usin’ your photo editor fix/touch up you pic/logo to your likin’
2. Save it some where easy to find, for example “C:pictures” or “C:Windowsdecenterofhellsystemsystem32system64system128???”, although I don’t recommend de second one.
3.Open Xara3D 5.xx. Press “Alt+T” or click on de “T” button on de LEFT PANEL erase all of de text in de window that pops up den press ok.
4. Press “Alt+U” or click on de yellow “U” surrounded in gray on de LEFT PANEL. Check de “button” box and select a desired button type and leave this option window open. You will need it again.
5. Press de “At+X” or click de black “X” on de LEFT PANEL Click “load texture” in de pop up window. Find de picture you made/adjusted and highlight it den click open or just double-click it. Use de “size, x, y, an’le” sliders to adjust de picture or “texture” and in de “button options” windows use de “stretch, corners” (corners, only if usin’ this option you can adjust) to adjust de button size.
6. Press “Alt+A” or click de black “A” on de LEFT PANEL with what looks like to me is a half-halo with an arrow tip? Anyway, here is a quick rundown on what de options here do: (BY THE WAY TO ACTIVATE OR “PREVIEW ANIMATION” PRESS “Ctrl+spacebar”).

A. Frames per cycle: This is de number of frames for each complete cycle through de animation sequence. The greater de number of frames de smooder de animation. The drawback is that de file is bigger - this is a big disadvantage for web graphics. You may need to try different values to get de best results.
B. Frames per second: The animation speed. Slow speeds can give jerky movement. High speeds can also give jerky movement as de program displayin’ de animation may not be able to keep up. Again you may need to try different values.
C. Pause: This pauses de first frame before continuin’ de rest of de animation. Type in a value in centiseconds (1/100ths of a second) - a 2 second pause is 200 cs. Note that this applies only to de first frame; use Frames per cycle and Frames per second to control de overall speed of de animation.
D. Loop Value: Unchecked is Infinite. Any oder value see for yourself.
E. Loop: This lets you specify how many times de animation should repeat itself. Note that some browsers take any value oder than 1 to mean ‘loop forever’. Therefore, your animation eider plays once or forever.
F. Style: This controls de type of animation:
Rotate 1 rotates all de text as one;
Rotate 2 rotates each character. (Buttons have a sin’le Rotate option.)
Rotate text/Rotate lights - select wheder you want de text to rotate or de lights or both. You cannot rotate de shadow as this would create very large files.
Direction - selects de direction of rotation.
G. Swin’ options: Swin’ 1 swin’s all de text as one;
Swin’ 2 swin’s each character. (Buttons have a sin’le Swin’ option.)
An’le - how much you want de headin’ to swin’.
H. Pulsate options: Pulsate 1 pulsates all de text as one;
Pulsate 2 pulsates each character. (Buttons have a sin’le Pulsate option.)
Minimum text size - how far back to pulsate de text.
Shrink+Grow & Grow+Shrink - only have an effect if you Pause de animation. These options select de startin’ point for de animation (maximum or minimum.)
I. Fade options:
Fade in - de headin’ emerges from de background color.
Fade out - de headin’ merges into de background color.

7. On de top left go to FILE>>>EXPORT ANIMATION or press “Ctrl+Shift+X” and save in desired location.

8. When de next window pops up (Export as animated gif save location den options): Experiment with each one to get it right

Because Animated GIFs can be quite large, you may find that a 16 or 32 color, optimized palette per frame, produces de best results for de smallest file size. However you might need to experiment.

Diderin’ always makes GIFs look better, but also makes them larger. When outputtin’ at 256 colors you may find that dere is no need to turn diderin’ on.

Current Window Size lets you export just de area surroundin’ de text (Crop on) or de entire window area (Crop off.)

User Defined lets you specify de dimensions of de bitmap.