Shell's Tutorials

Dolphin Glitter Sig

Open Animation Shop and open the glitter and dolphin. Click on the glitter and go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy

Open PSP. Go to Edit > Paste Animation As Multiple Images. (NOTE: If you're using PSP 8, you'll have to click on the first glitter frame in Animation shop, copy it and paste it into PSP. Repeat with the other 2 frames.)

Open a new canvas

Set your foreground and background colour to white

Set your Text Tool options

Click on your new canvas and type in your text when the text entry box opens. This is what you should have. Do not deselect.

Go to your layer palette and right click on the Floating Selection layer. Click on Promote Selection To Layer. Now right click on the Promoted Selection Layer and duplicate it twice so you have 3 text layers. Turn off the visibility of the copies of promoted selection layers and click on the original promoted selection layer to select it.

Go to your foreground box. Click in the middle to open the Material Properties box and click on Pattern. Click in the preview box and select the first glitter tile.

Flood fill your text.

Un-hide the first copy of promoted selection layer and click on it to select it.

Go back to your foreground colour and choose the second glitter tile.

Flood fill your text.

Un-hide the top copy of promoted selection layer and click on it to select it.

Go to your foreground box and select the last glitter tile.

Flood fill your text.

Add an inner bevel to your text. Add the same inner bevel to the other 2 layers of text. Right click on raster 1 layer and delete it. (It's a blank layer and we don't need it)

Save as a PSP file.

Open the file in Animation Shop. Go to Edit > Select All then go to Edit > Duplicate Selected. Keep duplicating until you have enough frames for your name. I find it best to count the number of letters in your name then multiply by 8. This always gives me enough frames to work with. (It sometimes gives me too many but you can always delete any you don't use)

Click on the Registration Mark tool

Click once at the start of your first letter. This will help when you come to add the dolphin.

Now click on the eraser tool.

Erase all the letters in the first frame.

You might find it easier to zoom in on your letters now so you can see them better when erasing.

On frame 2, erase part of your first letter, leaving only a little at the top. Erase all the other letters.

Frame 3 - Leave a little more on your 1st letter and erase all the other letters.

Frame 4 - Leave a little more on your 1st letter and erase all the other letters.

Frame 5 - Leave a little more on your 1st letter and erase all the other letters.

Frame 6 - Leave a little more on your 1st letter and erase all the other letters.

Frame 7 - Leave a little more on your 1st letter and erase all the other letters.

Frame 8 - Now leave all of your first letter and erase all other letters. Continue doing this to every letter, remembering to erase all other letters.

Click on the dolphin tube and go to Edit > Copy. Now click on frame 1 to select it. Click on the Paste Into Selected Frame icon.

Move the dolphin so his nose is in the centre of the cross and click once to position him.

Click on frame 2 to select it. Paste the dolphin and position him at the end of the first letter

Continue pasting the dolphin into each frame......

until you get to the end of the last letter. Delete any frames after this that you're not going to use.

Click on the crop tool and click on the options button.

Click on Surround Opaque Area then click OK

You will get a box round your sig

Click the crop button

Now save your sig. One last thing to do before it's totally finished....go to File > Preferences > General Program Preferences and click on the Transparency tab. Change the colours in the boxes to red. Click OK.

Now zoom in on your sig and look through each frame to find any pixels you've missed. Erase them.

Save again and you're done!