This sparkly text tag tutorial was written by me Diane Knight on 08th June 2008

any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental
Lots of people have asked me how I do this effect so I thought it was about time I wrote a tut for it.
To complete this tut you will need a good understanding of psp. You will also need the following plugin:
Alienskin Xenofex 2

and Animation shop

MY SUPPLIES HERE- made by me

Font used was Heartbreaker - get it HERE

Open a blank canvas 510 x 350 flood fill with white
(you can always crop later if needed)

1st we are going to type out the text,
I used the font following settings below

1st type out You're A and then add a drop shadow see below

then type out Breaker and add the same drop shadow as before

arrange the words on the canvas lie mine
then go to Merge down so that the words are on the same layer.

copy and paste the Glitter I provided and slide this layer underneath the text layer

add the same drop shadow as before...

copy and paste the heart I provided (made by me) and slide this layer below the text also.

then duplicate it and slide this one above the text...
you should have something that looks like this...

my preview is on a black background but you get the idea..i hope

using the following settings select the erasor tool

now you want to erase a little of the heart on both letters 'e'

(just above the hole for the 'e')so that the heart looks like it is threaded through the word Breaker.

ok now select the text layer and

select the magic wand tool,
I used these settings

then while holding the shift key down, selct the inside of the text.
ok you should see the text selected like this..

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while the text is still selected go to

Effect- Plugins - Alien skin Xenofex2 - constellation with the following settings.

click ok

then go to Selections none - copy merge and paste into Animation shop as a new frame

then go to Selections none

then copy merged and paste into Animation shop after current frame