I used font FetteFraD 120 in PSP10

not sure why mine isn't "bubble" like

luv the tut though!! thnks much

As to why your text isn't "bubble"... I'm going to guess that you didn't make the background material transparent/null for the outline layer (step #7; see my screenshot for the Materials palette), so therefore the background material of the outline layer is covering over the text layer. It also looks like your multiply layer is animated. Not sure how you did that lol.

Thanks for trying the tut, Melissa, that's a pretty font and gradient that you chose!

Do you remember where you got the gradient from? I'd like the name .

Oops... I just noticed your white layer is missing also. I wasn't sure if that was intentional or not, so I thought I'd point it out in case you were planning to try this tut again to try to get the bubble look.

Watching a cooking show, directing my son with a recipe and creating in PSP all at the same time, add up to a not correctly followed tutorial I guess LOL

The gradient is Chrome Reflect I think it was in PSP10

LOL that can do it hehe. Thanks for the name of the font; PSP8 has it .

I had a problem understanding just how it was going to animate so I put the outline layer under the text and then animated it. But when I took it into AS it didn't show up so I ended up doing this: highlighting text layer - float - defloat - contract by 2 twice.

This is the result. I also reduced it to see how it would look.
very nice tut. I didn't have that filter, but I do now. Thanks

Hugs, Jossie

I had to try it again. Think I'm doing something wrong so I will give it another try tomorrow

Love the effects. Jossie

Those both look great, Jossie! You have to tell me which gradients you used .

Sometimes I don't like writing tutorials because I think that my instructions will confuse people lol.  I'll try to explain my thought process.

I like the look of the text with stroke=2 but I wanted a subtler glitter effect than stroke=2.  That is why I added the extra layer above the text layer and changed the stroke to 1.5.  Even though there is a stroke=2 text layer below the outline, only the width of the outline will be animated.  I've created examples to show you the difference.







As you can see, the stroke width looks the same for each example, but the glitter effect is different based on the stroke width of the outline layer.

In your brown "awesome" tag, it looks like you missed a step in regards to the wind but the animation looks right on.  In your "thanks" example, the wind looks right.  As with all tutorials that you do, you can make changes here and there to suit your own likes and dislikes.

Everything worked great in the first one but the second one I was having some kind of wierd problem with my PSP. I would click on a layer and it wouldn't highlight... I would click on any of the other things, file, edit, so forth and so on.... and they would not open just this strange light would flick on the screen. It is working ok today. So I'm going to try again.

The gradients are ones that were just there when I opened
Names are: Thanks - 18714
Awesome - Es Vintage 01 (forground) Es Vintage 65 (Background)

Ok I see what I was doing wrong and why I was so confused... I didn't change the background to null on the outline. That makes all the difference in the world. I finnally got it!!

I do have a question.. I notice that my SBP is not as smooth at yours any suggestions?

I like the smaller 1.5 and that is what I will be using on the full set that I'm going to make this weekend. Also it took so long to try and get the animation to look smooth running so I chaned the settings 1st layer 35 2nd layer 40 3rd layer 45

Thanks for the great tutorial!!! Hugs, Jossie

Hmm...  I see what you mean about your last tag not looking so smooth.  What I have to do each time I open PSP is that I have to reload whatever preset is loaded into SBP.  So maybe when you do your next tags, even if the silver_text-jh is already loaded, RE-load it anyways and see if that fixes that bumpiness.  If it doesn't then I'll create a screenshot of my preset so you can see if yours is the same.

I don't normally change the amount of noise when I'm doing a three-frame noise animation, but it's possible that by changing the amount it makes the animation smoother.  I'll try to remember that the next time I make this tag and see how that looks.

You're very welcome for the tut!   I'm glad you got the outline fixed!

I'm going to try your suggestions on the SBP reload before I actually make the set using this tut.

If I need that screen shot I'll let you know.

Hugs, Jossie

Looks great. will try and have a go this week.