PSP7 (should work in earlier versions) & Animation Shop
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My Half Tone Bitmap
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Extract to your PSP7 Patterns folder

The default PSP7 patterns folder is located in Program Files, Jasc Software Inc, PSP7, patterns.

Step 2: Duplicate your background layer (layers, duplicate). On the upper layer (Copy of background), go to colors, colorize and choose a Hue and Saturation that you like. I am using Hue: 163, Saturation 78. Since this still looks a little dark to me, I am going to punch up the brightness a little by going to adjust Brightness/Contrast and and increasing brightness: 41, contrast 16.

Your image should now have three layers:

1. Top layer has been flood filled with the halftone pattern
2. Middle layer is your colorized image.
3. Bottom layer is your original image after the cropping and resizing. 

If you haven't opened up animation shop, go ahead and do so now. In the next several steps, you will be changing the different blend modes and the pasting into animation shop.

1. Top layer: 100% multiply
2. Middle & bottom layer: 100% normal. 

Use your right mouse button on the title bar of your image and click copy merged. Now paste into animation shop as a new animation. 

1. Top layer: 70% multiply
2. Middle layer: 80% normal
3. Bottom layer: 100% normal

Use your right mouse button to copy merged. Go to animation shop, right click on your first image and paste "after selected frame." 

1. Top layer: 40% multiply
2. Middle layer: 60% normal
3. Bottom layer: 100% normal

Use your right mouse button to copy merged. Go to animation shop, right click on your first image and paste "after selected frame." Before you do this make certain that you are pasting after frame 2. Look down at the bottom of the frame and if it indicates this is frame 1, then just use the sliders at the bottom to go to frame 2.

1. Top layer: 11% multiply
2. Middle layer: 40% normal
3. Bottom layer: 100% normal

Use your right mouse button to copy merged. Go to animation shop, right click on your first image and paste "after selected frame." Before you do this make certain that you are pasting after frame 2. Look down at the bottom of the frame and if it indicates this is frame 1 or 2 , then just use the sliders at the bottom to go to frame 3.

You should now have four frames. Still working with animation shop, go to edit, select all. Go to animation/frame properties and change the timing to 60 in the "display time" box. Then go to edit, select none. 

1. Top layer: 11% multiply
2. Middle layer: 40% normal
3. Bottom layer: 100% normal

Use your right mouse button to copy merged. Go to animation shop, right click on your first image and paste "after selected frame." Before you do this make certain that you are pasting after frame 2. Look down at the bottom of the frame and if it indicates this is frame 1, 2, 3 or 4 then just use the sliders at the bottom to go to frame 4.

With this last frame, go to animation/frame properties and change the timing to 120. Then go to Animation/Animation properties. Canvas color should be transparent, looping set to indefinitely if you so choose.