You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Image of your choice - I'm using work by the fantastic artist Anna Rigby.  You can find his work here
My Template - here
Font of you choice.  I'm using Levi Brush here

First open your image, and resize so that it is at least 550 in height, we can make it smaller still later. Convert to raster, increase your canvas size by about 10 all round, and copy and paste on my template as a new layer.

With the template layer active, take your magic wand, and select outside the square.  Go to selection/modify/expand and expand by 1.  Then on you image layer hit delete.  We enlarged the canvas to ensure that we deleted all the unwanted image.

You should have something like this.

Add a new layer, flood fill with white, and move to the bottom.  With your image layer active, add the following drop shadow.  H and V = 5, Opacity = 35, and Blur = 2 

At this point you may want to add some brushes below the image.  Also add your copyright, and text, and then crop your image.  I have also resized mine by 85%, because I thought it looked a little big.  We are then ready to animate.

With you template layer active, take your magic wand and selection in the first square you wish to use.  Selection/Modify/Expand by 1.  Activate the image layer and promote selection to a layer.  Back on the image layer, hit delete.  On the promoted section, selection none, and lower the opacity to 50.  Copy Merged, and paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.

Back in PSP and undo all the step you have just done.  Then again, selection your next square using the magic wand (you may want to do your sequence in straight line, or you may want to do it random.  That is up to you), and repeat as you did before, copying over into Animation Shop after current frame.  Continue until you have pasted over all squares. 

In Animation Shop, select all your frames and change the frame properties to 30.  Save as a gif file.

You are done.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 10th April 2007 by Faerie Queen.