Glittername

 

 

 

You will need :-

PSPX

Animation Shop

A Glitter tube.You can find glitter tubes on the net or why not try making your own? 

Its easy to do and you will find our tut on ' Make your own Glitter'    here

(This tutorial uses a 3 frame glitter, if your glitter has more than 3 frames you have to duplicate your frames accordingly**)

A font of your choice, use a chunky one [Ive used 'Sixties' for this tutorial]

There are many free fonts on the net, download and save to a folder on your pc, or you can use one which you will already find available in your PSP prog when you come to use the 'Text' tool.

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First, find your font file, open it and leave it onscreen or reduce it to your taskbar at the bottom. While you keep the file open it will appear in your list of fonts in PSP when you use the 'Text' tool.

Open your PSP, and go to 'File' 'New' and open a new image 400 x 300 transparent.

 

Open Animation Shop.

Go to 'File' Browse' and locate your glitter. Double click on it  to open it. This particular glitter has 3 frames

 

With the first frame selected [surrounded in blue] go to  'Edit' 'Copy'...

.....go over to PSP and click on 'Edit' 'Paste as New Image'

The first frame of the glitter will appear in its own little window.

Go back to AS, click on the 2nd frame of your glitter to highlight, 'Edit' 'Copy'.....

 

in PSP click on 'Edit' 'Paste as New Image'

Go back to AS, click on the 3rd frame of your glitter, 'Edit' 'Copy'...over to PSP and 'Edit' 'Paste as New Image.

You will now have the 3 glitter frames in their own little windows, leave these on your screen.

 

Click on your main blank image to activate it [the bar at the top turns blue and 'Raster 1' will be highlighted blue in your 'Layer' palette.]

Click on the 'Text' tool  .

On the 'Tools Options' palette click the little down arrow next to font and select your chosen font from the drop down menu

 

Set the size, Ive used 72, and set the 'Stroke Width' to 1.0. and 'Create as:' Floating

Set the 'Line Style'   to +Solid  [Your toolbar might look slightly different to this, Ive rearranged mine so as to fit it into the screenshot]

 

In the 'Materials' palette, set the 'Foreground and stroke Properties' box to 'Colour' by clicking on the solid black dot....and click on the colour which appears in the box to open the 'Material Properties' Style colour section.

 

 Choose a colour for the outline of your letters and 'OK' it

 

The 'Background and Fill Properties' can be any colour as its going to be covered with the glitter.

 

Click on your blank image and the 'Text Entry' box will open. Type in your text and click 'Apply'

Your text will appear on your image with 'Marching Ants' round it.

 

Hold your mouse over the text until the cursor changes from    to   then click hold and drag your text into position.

'Selections' 'Select None' to deselect [removes marching Ants]

As the glitter used for this tutorial is a 3 frame glitter  we have to duplicate our 'Raster Layer' with the text on so that there will be 3 layers - one to correspond with each of the glitter fames ** [If you are using a glitter with more than 3 frames, you will have to duplicate accordingly] So...in the 'Layer' palette, right click on 'Raster1' and select 'Duplicate' from the menu.

 

Right click on that layer and select 'Duplicate' again so you now have 3 layers

 

In the 'Materials' palette, click on the solid black dot and select the 'Pattern' icon from its drop down menu

 

Click on the pattern that appears in the box to open the 'Material Properties' 'Style'box, pattern section.

Click on the pattern showing there to open the menu. There you will see your 3 glitter frames, click on the first of the 3 to select it....and 'OK' it

 

The first frame of your glitter will now be showing in your 'Materials' palette

 

In your 'Layer' palette, 'X' out the last 2 'Raster' layers  by clicking on the eye at the end of each row.

 Click on 'Raster 1' to highlight it

 

Select  the 'Magic Wand' tool 

 

and make sure the 'Mode' is set to 'Add(Shift)'. This enables you to keep each selection selected as you go along

 

Click inside each of your letters so there are 'Marching Ants' inside each one. You may have to click more than once in some particular letters to select all the areas, it just depends on the type of font you are using.

Click on the 'Floodfill' tool   and left click inside each letter to floodfill with the first of the glitters.

 

With the 'Marching Ants' still marching,

'X' out 'Raster 1' layer and un 'X' the next layer 'Copy of Raster 1' and click on it to highlight

 

In the 'Materials' palette, click on the glitter showing in the box to open the 'Material Properties' 'Style'patterns again

 Click on the glitter showing in that box to open the menu. Select the 2nd frame of your glitter from the menu.

 

and 'OK' it. It will appear in your 'Materials' palette.

Using the 'Floodfill' tool   again, click inside each letter to floodfill with the 2nd glitter.

'X' out that layer in your 'Layer' palette, un 'X' the last layer and click on it to highlight.

 

Click on the glitter showing in your 'Materials' palette again to open the 'Material Properties', and this time select the 3rd of the glitters from the menu and 'OK' it

 

Using the 'Floodfill' tool again , click inside each letter to floodfill with the 3rd of your glitters.

'Selections' 'Select None' to deselect.

Un 'X' all 3 layers

Click on 'Raster 1' to highlight it, go to 'Edit' 'Copy'....

go over to Animation Shop and click on 'Edit' 'Paste' 'As New Animation'

Go back to PSP, click on your 2nd 'Raster' layer to highlight, 'Edit' 'Copy'...

over to Animation Shop click on 'Edit' 'Paste' and this time click on 'After Current Frame'

[nb the frames will probably go behind each other so dont be alarmed you havent lost them]

Go back to PSP, click on your last 'Raster' layer to highlight, 'Edit' 'Copy'

...over to Animation Shop and click on 'Edit' 'Paste' 'After Current Frame'

[If you wish to see all your frames you can click on 'View' 'Normal Viewing (1:1)]

Now click on the 'View Animation' icon   to see your glittering text.

 

Go to 'File' 'Save as' a 'Compuserve Graphics Interchange (*.gif)

 

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