To create glitter text
first download the glitter samples from here. Then extract them to a folder in My Documents, this way you
have your glitter samples ready for use when you need them.
Open both PSP and Animation Shop.
In Animation Shop open the glitter sample, then from the menu choose
edit then select all, then edit and copy.
Go to PSP and right click
on a blank area of the screen and select Paste
AS Animation as Multiple Images.
The frames will appear on your
screen, mine appear in cascade format, but I moved them as you see on
your left here so you can
see three images. Click File then new, for a
siggy I use the default of 300X300 but it can be smaller and set the
background as transparent. See graphic on the right.
Now click the text tool; it's the
on the toolbar. Select your
font style and size and type in your text. Then click OK.
You will now have the text on your image as a floating selection.
Right click on the window holding your graphic and choose copy, then
in a blank area in PSP right click and choose paste as new image, do
this 3 times so you have 3 images the same size as shown in the
graphic below. (You will create more if you use a glitter sample
with more than 3 frames.)
Now click the flood fill tool
on
your toolbar.
Go to styles,
and be sure that you have chosen pattern as circled in red in the
next graphic
Click on
it and choose the first of your glitter samples that should appear
in the window as shown below on the left. You will then see a window
as the one below-right. Click OK and you are ready to fill your
first of 3 graphics.
Click on your text and the
pattern will be added to it.
Right click and choose cut, go to Animation Shop and right click and
choose paste as new animation.
Return to PSP and
go back to the styles and choose your second glitter sample as per the
graphics above. Using the flood fill tool
click on your second image
until it is filled with the second glitter sample. Go back to Animation
shop, right click on your first image and choose paste after current
frame.
Return
again to PSP and go back to the styles and choose your third glitter
sample as per the graphics above. Using the flood fill tool
click on your third image
until it is filled with the second glitter sample. Go back to Animation
shop, right click on your second image frame and choose paste after
current frame.
You
will repeat these steps until finished if using glitter with more than 3
samples.
When
you are done your Animation Shop graphic should look similar to the
following
The frames will appear on your
screen, mine appear in cascade format, but I moved them as you see on
your left here so you can
see three images. Click File then new, for a
siggy I use the default of 300X300 but it can be smaller and set the
background as transparent. See graphic on the right.
on the toolbar. Select your
font style and size and type in your text. Then click OK.
on
your toolbar.
Click on
it and choose the first of your glitter samples that should appear
in the window as shown below on the left. You will then see a window
as the one below-right. Click OK and you are ready to fill your
first of 3 graphics.
