Ulead GIF Animator 5: How to make a flying butterfly

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How to make a flying butterfly:

pen your saved butterfly with your animation program. Choose one with a transparent background.

Or you can just use mine:

Add 3 more frames for a total of 4. The butterfly should be in frame 1.

Highlight the butterfly, at the right.

Go to edit, and copy. Go to each frame and paste. You will now have 4 frames of exactly the same butterfly.

Leave frame 1 alone.

Go to frame 2, and highlight the butterfly in that frame, and right click on it. Go to object properties, position and size. Make sure "keep aspect ratio" is unchecked. We want to squeeze our butterfly from the sides, but not the top.

My butterfly has width 106, and height 71, to start. I changed frame 2's butterfly to a width of 91. You can go a little more or less than that, whatever you prefer. You will notice your butterfly has moved over to the left a bit. We will take care of that by going to the top of the page, with your butterfly still highlighted. Under Alignment, choose the last box. If you hold your mouse over it, it will say "center both."

Go to frame 3, and make your butterfly even skinnier. I chose width of 60. Center it just like you did the other one.

Go to frame 4, do the same thing again, but try to keep the width close to what you had for frame 2. Center again.