Shell's Tutorials

Glitter

Open the gold glitter in Animation Shop. Press Ctrl and a then Ctrl and c to select all the frames and copy them to your clipboard.

Open PSP and go to Edit > Paste > Paste AS Animation as Multiple Images (Note: this option isn't available in PSP 10. To copy the frames from Animation Shop to PSP 10, you'd have to click on the first frame, copy and paste it into PSP then click on the second frame, copy and paste and do the same for the third frame)

The frames will open as individual images in PSP.

Set your foreground colour to white and your background colour to null (null means no colour)

Open a new image by going to File > New

Click on your text tool. Go to the text options and set the width to 4.

Click on your canvas. Type your text in the text entry box and use the settings in the screenshot.

This is what you will have. On your keyboard, keep the shift key pressed and press d twice. This will give you 3 canvases with the text on. Keep the ants marching on each one and be sure not to move the text on any of the canvases.

Set your foreground colour box to Pattern

Choose the first gold glitter

with these settings

Flood fill the text. Go to Selections > Select None

Click on the next text canvas to select it. Go to the materials box and choose the next gold glitter. Flood fill the text and go to Selections > Select None.

You should now have 3 canvases with gold outline text.

Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel and use the settings in the screenshot. Add the same inner bevel to the text on each canvas.

Go to Animation Shop and open the red glitter. Copy and paste the frames into PSP the same way we did before.

Click on your magic wand. Keeping the Shift key pressed, click inside each letter.

Go to Selections > Modify > Expand and expand by 1 pixel.

Set your foreground colour to the first red glitter.

Flood fill the text. Go to Selections > Select None.

Click on one of the other canvases, use the magic wand to select the centre of the text. Expand the selection by 1 pixel. Set your foreground colour to the second red glitter and flood fill the letters. Go to Selections > Select None.

Click on the final canvas, use the magic wand to select the centre of the text. Expand the selection by 1 pixel. Set your foreground colour to the third red glitter and flood fill the letters. Go to Selections > Select None.

Save each file as a psp. I named my files, glitter1, glitter2 and glitter3.

Go to Animation Shop. Click on the Animation Wizard icon.

Click next

You can use either transparent or opaque, the choice is yours. Click next.

Click next.

Click add image.

Find the folder where you saved your text files. Click on the glitter1.

Click on add image again and add glitter2 then add glitter3. Click next.

Click Finish.

Open one of the gold tubes, I chose the holly. Click on the Duplicate icon twice. This will give you 3 frames on the holly.

On your keyboard, press ctrl and a then ctrl and c to select all the frames then copy them to your clipboard. Click on the text canvas and press ctrl and a then ctrl and e to paste the holly onto the text canvas. Move the holly where you ant it then click once to position it.

Use the crop tool to crop away the excess canvas

Save and you're done :o)