HOW TO - Sparkly Text

*old tut moved from my old tut site*

Lots of people asked me how I do this effect so I thought it was about time I wrote a tut for it.

and if you havent figured it out yet I just LOVE sparkles!!!!
To complete this tut you will need a good understanding of psp. 

You will also need the following plugin: Alienskin Xenofex 2

and Animation shop

MY SUPPLIES free HERE- made by me

Font used was Heartbreaker - get it HERE 

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Open a blank canvas 510 x 350 flood fill with white
(you can always crop later if needed)

 1st we are going to type out the text,
I used the font following settings below 

 

1st type out ' You're A - convert to raster layer then add a drop shadow see below

 

then type out Breaker and add the same drop shadow as before

arrange the words on the canvas like mine
then go to Merge down so that the words are on the same layer.

copy and paste the Glitter I provided and slide this layer underneath the text layer

add the same drop shadow as before...

copy and paste the heart I provided (made by me) and slide this layer below the text also.

then duplicate it and slide this one above the text...
you should have something that looks like this...

 

using the following settings when you select the erasor tool

now you want to erase a little of the heart on both letters 'e'

(just above the hole for the 'e')so that the heart looks like it is threaded through the word Breaker

ok now select the text layer and

select the magic wand tool,

I used these settings

then while holding the shift key down, select the inside of the text.
ok you should see the text selected like this..

while the text is still selected go to

Effect- Plugins - Alien skin Xenofex2 - constellation with the following settings. 

click ok

then go to Selections none - copy merged and paste into Animation shop as a new frame

back to PSP

click undo button twice, and go to Effect- Plugins - Alien skin Xenofex2 - constellation with the the same settings but this time hit the random button.

then go to Selections none

then copy merged and paste into Animation shop after current frame
  

back to PSP

click undo twice,

go to Effect- Plugins - Alien skin Xenofex2 - constellation 

with the the same settings, hit the random button one last time.

go to Selections none

copy merged and paste into Animation shop after current frame one last time

save as a gif and you are done..

i hope you enjoyed this tutorial xx