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Easy Glitter Text
Disclaimer I have seen seen other Glitter text tutorials that are similar, but none use the same technique as I do. To the best of my knowledge, this tutorial does not copy any others.
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Open a new image 400 X 200 Transparent.
Flood with any solid color except white.
Activate your airbrush tool. Set your foreground color to white. Adjust your airbrush settings to the settings shown below.
Apply a light dusting on your image.
Make a new layer. Fill with the same color and dust with the same airbrush. Make a third layer. Fill with the same color and dust with the same airbrush. Make a 4th layer and flood with white. Activate your text tool. Make sure that SELECTION is checked at the bottom of your text window. Make sure that background is NOT nulled. Color does not matter. You can use any font that you like. Click ok. Your image should look something like this, NO color, only a selection of the text.
Press Delete on your keyboard. You should be able to see the layer below through the text.
Deselect.
Use your crop tool and crop your image so that it is not bigger than your text.
Save your image. Open Animation Shop. Once in Animation shop. click File > Preferences > General Program Preferences. Click on the Layered Files tab. Adjust your settings to match the settings shown below. Click OK.
Open your image.
Your image should have four frames. 3 are your dusted layers and one is your name.
Duplicate your name twice so that you have a total of three name frames.
Click on one of the name frames. Hold down your CTRL key and click on the other two name frames so that all three are selected. Press CTRL + X to cut. Only the dusted frames should be there at this point. Press CTRL + A to select all. Press CTRL + E to paste the name frames onto the dusted frames.
All frames should still be selected. If not, press CTRL + A to select all. Click File > Export > Paint Shop Pro. In Paint Shop Pro, you now have a new image with three layers. On the top layer, use your magic wand tool. Click on the white area only. You may need to hold the SHIFT key down to me certain that ALL of the white area is selected. Invert. Apply Inner Bevel using the PILLOW preset, but raise the Ambience to 60. Do not deselect. Turn off the top layer and activate the middle layer. Inner Bevel same settings. Turn off the middle layer and activate the bottom layer. Inner Bevel same settings. Deselect Turn ALL layers back on. Click Edit > Update back to Animation Shop. Close your image in PSP.
In Animation shop, give your image one last look to be sure that there is no color anywhere except in the text.
If you see that there is some along the
edges, use your crop tool
Save your animation. You're done. GREAT job!
**HINT** To make a gold trim...When you add your text selection, click selections > Modify >Expand > 2. Apply Effects > Texture effects > Sculpture > Gold Preset. Selections > Modify > Contract > 2. Press Delete. Follow the rest of the tutorial as written.
I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at:
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