Do you want to create your own custom glitter comments so that you can use it on forums,Myspace and other message boards but you don't know how to create them? Just follow these simple steps and you can make tons of glitter fonts!
Steps
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Open up your graphic software, in this example the author worked with Photoshop CS3, but you don't have to necessarily use it, you can also use a free photo editor like Gimp.
- Create a new file in the size you prefer, choose it either in a white background, or in whatever background colour you wish to make.
- Choose a cute font to create your text. It's better that you use a bold font so that the glitter stand out more.
- Pick the color for your font, in this example the author choose for blue.
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Go to layers, rasterize, and choose for rasterize text and press enter.
- Duplicate your original layer three times.
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Go to filter,noise and noise, press it open choose for the first one 45%, the second one 50%, the third one 55% and the last one 60%.
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Save each file separately in to a gif file. Don't forget to uncross each eye before you save each layer to the file.
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Open up your animation program, in this article the author worked with Animation shop. Choose for the animation wizard. If its possible choose the same size as the first image frame and press next.
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Open your file and add your layers to the wizard, by pressing each time add and click enter twice.
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Click on done, if everything went right your work should resemble like the image on the right.
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Save your glitter text into a gif file. To do this go to file, save as, choose the name for the glitter font and press save.
- After you saved the text, you get a pop up screen that asks you if you want to change the settings.
- Press loop forever, and press continue. You can also choose the times. If you want, just leave it alone and press done. If everything went right you have now made your glitter animation!
Tips
- Add some effects to the text, in this example there is shade added to the text. To make things easy go effects, copy effects and paste each effect into all the layers.
