Glitter Filled Text

 
Open a new image 100x100. Flood fill with a favorite color. 
 
Hit Shift+D twice to duplicate the image 2 times.  Minimize the 2 copies and make your original image active.  Go to Adjust>Add/Remove Noise>Add Noise/Gaussian 80, monochrome checked.  Next, take a sparkle tube and randomly add some sparkles to the image.  It should look something like this

 

Minimize and pull up one of the duplicates.  Add noise again, but this time change it from 80 to 90.  Add some more sparkles in different places. 
 
Minimize and pull up the last image.  Add noise at 100 this time and add sparkles.  You know should have 3 glitter sparkle fills.  Minimize them all, we'll be using them in a bit.
 
Next, open a new image 400x200.  Activate your text tool and set your foreground to the same color you used for the glitter fill.  Background null.  Stroke width 3.  Using a font of choice, type out your text.  Objects>Align>Center in Canvas.  Convert to raster.

 

Go to Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel

 

 

Select your magic wand, with Tolerance and Feather set to 0, hold down the Shift key and click inside each letter.  Go to Selections>Modify>Expand>1.
 
Add a new raster layer and move it below the text layer.  Select our Flood Fill tool, go to patterns, and choose your first glitter fill.  Flood fill your selection.  Do not deselect.

 

Add another raster layer and flood fill with the 2nd glitter fill that you made.  Then, add one more raster layer and fill with the 3rd glitter fill.  Deselect.  You should now have a total of 4 layers.

 

Close the middle 2 layers (glitter fills 2 & 3).  Copy Merged and Paste in AS as a new animation.
 
Go back to PSP, close the bottom layer and unhide the next layer up (glitter fill 2).  Copy Merged and paste into AS after current frame.  One more time go to PSP, close the glitter fill 2 layer and unhide the last glitter fill layer.  Copy Merge and Paste into AS after current frame
 
Now, in AS, Select All and change frame properties to your liking..I used 15.  Save your animation.

Have fun!
Mae