Firts off, I dont claim this tut as my own, I done it long, long ago, no idea where I learnt it

 

                              Glitter Sig

                 Get your glitter HERE

 

 

Open your glitter in Animation Shop (lots of the glitters are 3 frames - but some do have more, I am just asuming you ARE useing a 3 frame glitter)

Click on the FIRST farme, to highlight it

 

Right click on t, and hit - Copy, then go to paint shop, and click on the "Paste New Image" icon (the clipboard)

Go back to Animation Shop, and highlight the SECOND glitter frame

 do the same -Copy, then smae Patse New Image in Paintshop

 Repeat with your last glitter frame

 

 Now open  a New Canvas, big enough for your text (fat fonts are best for this)

Choose your Font - Size, whatever you want, Im useing size 48, Floating and Antialias checked, Any colour, cos its gonna ghange to your glitter colour

And type your text

 

LEAVE the ants marching around your Text  (DO NOT De-select )

Hit shift and D to make a duplicate, repeat so you have Three text frames

 

Click on your Flood Fill tool, then Foeground- Patterns

Click on the pattern, and look for your FIST glitter and click on it, Ok,

Click on one of your Text frames, and flood fill

 

 Then just go to  -File -Save As, and save it to where you can find it  (I just save as 1 -2 -3 etc), when it is saved just delete it by hitting the Red X, cos its not needed anymore

 

Now go back to your Patterns, and find your SECOND glitter, and click on it, -Ok

 Click on another Text frame, and floodfill  -- Save As, then delete that franme

Back to your patterns, and find your THIRD glitter, click on it, then - Ok, and floodfill that last text frame, then File-Save as

Delete all thats still in Painshop. you finished there and dont need whats there

 

Back to Animation Shop, delete them glitters thats still there

Then, - File - Animation Wizard

Same size as the first image frame checked

 

 Next - Transparent

 Next - Upper left corner of the image, checked, Wth the canvas color, cheked

 

 

Next - Yes repeat the animation indefinatly checked, just leave the 10 you see there

 

Next - Add Image

 Find where you saved them to, and add them one at a time

 

 

 

 

 

 when they are all added, click, Next - Finish

 There will be some blank frames there just delete them.

Either click on the Film Strip, or go to View - Animation

 All you have to do now is -Save as