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0080 >&#13;          Stopmotion supports drag and drop and you can drag pictures to and from the
0081             desktop or other programs.
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0084 >&#13;          One especially useful example of using Stopmotion with other programs is to
0085             use gimp (or another painting program) to add effects to the frames.
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0093 >Figure 10. 
0094                     Adding effects with gimp
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0104 >&#13;          The best way to do this is to drag a frame/picture from <SPAN
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0108             to gimp. Change around with it in <SPAN
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0142             you have FAM (File Alteration Monitor) installed, but if it doesn't you can switch to 
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0146 > and when you select the frame/picture in the framebar it will be
0147             updated to the altered picture.
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