How To Create And Install Your Own Cursor In 5 Simple Steps
How To: Create And Install Your Own Cursor
a step by step guide using animation shop (a program free with paint shop pro)
Requirements:
Animation Shop (can be found on the same disk as Paint Shop Pro)
Any image
Are you displeased with the cursor you’ve got? Are you dissatisified with those cursors you downloaded from that site? Then this tutorial’s for you. Read on…
1. Create or download your favourite image off the web. Open it in some image editing software (ie Paint Shop Pro) and resize it to 15×15. In Paint Shop go to Image –> Resize. Enter 15 in the width box and 25 in the height box. Your image should now be about so high and so wide:
Save the image as cursor1.jpg in the My Pictures folder. You can create more images if you wish to create and animated cursor. Save these as cursor2.jpg, cursor3.jpg etc
2. Open animation shop (File –> Jasc Software Products –> Launch Animation Shop ) and hold down the keys Shift and A. The animation wizard should come up
3. Click Next four times and then click add images. Locate to the My Pictures folder and select cursor1.jpg. If you wish to create an animated cursor, you should have created more images earlier on. Add these images on now.
4. Click Next then Finish.
You may add any effects to your animated cursor at this time. Because this tutorial is aimed mainly at beginners, we will not go into this.
5. Go to File –> Save As. Locate to the My Pictures folder and call your cursor cursor. From the dropdown list Animated Cursor (*.ani) even if your cursor is not animated.
So now you have successfully created and saved your cursor. Now we are going to make it the default cursor.
Go to Start –> Control Panel
If available on the left menu under Control Panel click Switch to Classic View
Double click on Mouse
Click on the tab Pointers
Go to Normal Select and click Browse
Select the file cursor.ani under My Pictures
Click OK and close Control Panel
And there you should have it, your own cursor created and installed
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