Okay, I went back to the drawing board and had intended to use a rainbow-ish pattern that I had created, but when I saw the text with it, and I tried different fonts, I thought the result looked horrible.  So instead I decided to play with one of my own rainbow gradients.  I still want to try this again with a pattern, but here is my second result using a different font and my gradient.



The font is SF Technodelight.  I "dressed" up the text just a bit, but I refrained myself from glassing it .  Because of the sharp points on the stars, I didn't use the expand and fill method.  I created my text in vector format , and then I duplicated the text and edited it (I added a stroke=2.5 and used the gradient for the stroke material).  Then I moved this vector layer below the plain black text layer.  By doing the "outline" this way, I maintain the points of the stars.  It's more work to do it this way, but if you want to keep points on the outline of text or any other shapes, this is the method that I have discovered works.  Otherwise the points are softened by expanding the selection.

Awesome results Timber.  I love the font you used and the points on the stars are too cool! 
I love the idea of using the gradient  for the stroke also.
Wow, I have more things to try now.  Thanks for sharing your results and your settings.

Thanks also for playing ...... I'm off to see if I have that font. 

Thanks, Judy, and you're very welcome!

for this tutorial - great effect - beautiful tags .. I used the font Budmo Jiggler - you can find it HERE

Cheetah I love the font and bright colors that you used!
Did you use a gradient?

Thanks for trying the tut...I hope you could do it ok in
PSP 7.  I've been collecting things to do a hippie/tie-dyed tag. 
Those colors would be awesome. 

Fabulous effects and tags!

I have never tried this tut with a glitter fill so I decided to try a multi-colored glitter.

 

I found one of Karla's called SE_TyeDye_C and gave it a try.

 

 

It's not quite as colorful as the gradient, but I wonder what it would look like if I rotated the fill?

 

I have more playing to do. 

 

 

Oooh that looks good Judy! Using the tye dye glitter was another fun idea :-) Did you or do you ever enhance the color of your work? I always adjust the colors to make it brighter/pop or stand out a bit more. 

Here is my latest play

 

 

I used SF Technodelight for the font and a multi pattern I have.  I scaled the pattern to 20 and changed the angle of the pattern fill from 0 to 40 to 135 for each of the three layers.

 

I think it looks pretty cool on a black background. 

 

 

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  Very nice tut , not sure I have the animation correctly got a bit confused on the layers to merge... but still looks pretty

Daphne,

I love your results.  I am glad you tried the tut!

 

Judy

 

 

 

 

Mayra de Buelvas

Barranquilla_Colombia

01-01-20221 06:17 o.m

Great results , Mayra, thanks for showing them!