Glittering Text/Image

Today we are going to learn how to make welcome text. Once you've learned it you can make easily the bird picture animation or any other image.

For this tutorial you'll need psp 7 software. You can download a Free demo version from Jasc.com or download.com or you can buy full version of psp 7.
You'll need Gliter you can get variety of gliters from this site.
or Download font and glitter which I've used here

Note: Store font in c:\windows\fonts folder or if you are using winnt store it in c:\winnt\fonts

OK now Open new image with these settings



Now open text editor by clicking on text tool and type Welcome with these settings. I've used font Caligula.

Now select each text with the help of magic wand . You may need to press shift key to select all the text. Your text should look like this.

Now go to top menu to duplicate the layer. Layers - Duplicate
Duplicate the layer twice because we've three frames in our gliter image and we need three layers.

Now your layer palette should look like this

Open your Animation shop - click on File menu of psp - Jasc software products - Launch Animation shop
Now click on File menu of Animation shop - click on Open to open the file. Now browse for your glitter which you've downloaded and open it. Your glitter should look like this. It has three frames as you can see.

Now copy frame No 1 F: 1 and paste it as new image in psp (Paint shop pro workspace). Repeat the same procedure with all the frames. Now you'll have 3 psp images of glitter in your psp workspace.

Now in layer palette click on layer 1 (bottom one) to select it as you can see in above layer picture.

Now click on your flood fill tool . Click on Pattern to select it.


Now click to find the images you've pasted


Now you can see three similar images. Click on the image 1 and flood fill it on your text of layer 1.



Now click on layer palette and select copy of layer 1 , Select the image 2 from pattern box and flood fill it on text.
Now click on copy of copy of layer 1 of layer palette, Select the image 3 from pattern box and flood fill it on text.
Now your image should look like this

Now save this image (File - Save) as gliter.psp or whatever name you want to give. But make sure that extension should be .psp
Ok now we are ready to look it into animation shop how it works.
Now switch over to Animation shop open the file gliter .psp File - open
Click on View menu then animation

Your image should look like this.