Love this! And omg, I learned some NEW tricks on PSP! Honestly, I have never used many of the tools on the layers palette before. I am so glad to have found out how to do certain steps - when I have been doing them manually lol Here is my try at this tutorial. I used my honeys name ♥

I was unable to use EC for the motion trail (since I have the trial version installed), I used the PSP Motion Blur effect. I set it to 300 angle, 50 strength. Also, when I saved my animation with the settings in tutorial, it looked a little wonky. It was not bad, though I wanted to see if I can make it look better. So I copy merged my work and pasted as new image, then cut and pasted the work itself (without the whole work canvas begun with for tutorial) as new image. Added a new layer to fill with white color and moved it to bottom. Copy Merged it to AS and came back to PSP to repeat copy merge and cut for the other steps with noise on text and added them to new layer onto the canvas I am now working on & closing the other layers of text as I go along. Well, you get the idea :) Now, in the Optimization window, the settings I chose were Optimized Octree and Error Diffusion. Not sure if the difference was in the motion blur effect as opposed to using the one in EC.

I am happy to hear that you have learned some new PSP tricks!   When I wrote these tutorials for beginners I tried to include something new with each new tutorial.  Much of the time I, myself, would learn something new while I was writing the tutorial so I would include that.  I really loved writing for beginners but it takes so much time now with all the text and screenshots.

You said you weren't able to use Eye Candy 4000 for the motion trail.  The tutorial has a link to a site where you can download a full version Eye Candy 3; it also has a motion trail.

Thanks so much for sharing all the details about how you made your tag!   I shall have to take another look at PSP Motion Blur and try your settings.  For the optimization settings in Animation Shop, it's typical to use error diffusion when working with a motion blur, but I can't remember now why I used Median Cut instead of Optimized Octree.  It's good that you played with those settings to get the best saved result for your tag.

Thanks for giving this tutorial a play and showing your results!  I always enjoy seeing them.

At the time when I wrote this tutorial I didn't have these new glitter tiles, so I have made a new tag using them, and this is how my name turned out.  These new glitter tiles are in the Patriot Text Tutorial album here for anyone who wants them.  If anyone knows of a font that is geared more towards Canada or the UK, then please let me know, because this font feels very American to me with the stars and stripes.  It would be nice to have other country options.

These are some I was able to find. Flags too! 

 

This is a fun tut, timber!  I only had time to try it once so far so I stayed pretty much to the tut instructions.

 

 

I want to play some more later with the glitters!

I'm Baacck!  LOL  Here is my try with the new glitter.

 

 

Thanks again, timber.  I really like the glitter.    Things that sparkle make me happy. 

Judy, great work on your tags! ☺

Found my files in webby :) Feel free to share them ☻The page is not set up pretty with header or anything. But I will fix that up someday... lol

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