NOTE: This tutorial was written for Photoshop CS. It will also work in later versions. 3. Turn off the "tag 3" layer, and click on the "tag 2" layer. Apply the same preset, but
rotate the environment bitmap one turn. Turn off the "tag 2" layer. Apply the same preset, but rotate
the environment bitmap two turns. You now have three copies of your text, each with the glitter in slightly different
positions. Name your new layer "stroke". Control-left click on the "stroke" layer to select it, and
apply the gold outline preset to it. Go to Select, Deselect. Your image should now look like this: 5. Go to Layer, Merge Down. Click the button at the bottom of your toolbar to switch to ImageReady. Make sure
you are in Full Screen Mode (click the middle button on the toolbar just above the bottom (Switch to Photoshop)
button, and make sure that Animation is checked under the Window menu. You will see the first frame of your animation
at the bottom of your screen. It should look like this: 7. Click the icon to the left of the trashcan again to duplicate your second frame, and in the layers pallette
click on the "tag 3" layer and turn it on. Your animation should now look like this: 8. Test your animation by clicking on the "play" arrow (the third one from the left). Click the "stop"
button to stop (the square one). Make any adjustment you like on the delay of each frame. When you are satisfied,
go to File, Save Optimized As, and name your animation. That's it!
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FOR THIS TUTORIAL YOU WILL NEED TO DOWNLOAD MY GLITTER AND GOLD OUTLINE PRESETS, WHICH YOU CAN FIND HERE.
1. Open a new RGB image with a white backgroun, 500 pixels wide by 150 pixels high (make it longer if you have
a long name). Type in your name in whatever font you wish to use (I'm using Script MT Bold at 150 pt). Go to Layer,
Rasterize, Type. Name your text layer "tag 1". Delete the background layer. Create two copies of this
layer just above it. Name them "tag 2" and "tag 3".
2. Control-left click on the "tag 3" layer to select it. Apply one of the glitter presets to it. Your
image should now look like this:
4. Create a new layer just above the "tag 1" layer. Go to Edit, Stroke, and use these settings, with
white as your color:
6. Click the arrow to the right of "0 sec." under your frame, and select a delay of 0.1 seconds. Then
click the icon at the bottom of your animation just to the left of the trashcan. This will duplicate your first
frame. In the layers pallette, click on the "tag 2" layer and turn it on. Your animation should now look
like this:
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