Animated Party Time Text ~ tutorial by Whisper

Animated Party Time Text
(or Retro Text Revisited)
tutorial by Whisper

This tutorial was created and put on this site on June 13, 2004.
It is property of and Š2001-2004 to Whisper's Web Works.
Terms of Use

For this tutorial you will need:
Paint Shop Pro ~ download a trial version.
Eye Candy 4000 ~ the demo version will not work for this.
A fat font, with a single outline ~ I will be using Bauhaus93 but will not offer the file for download because I can not verify if it is a freeware font.

Open a new image:
600 x 200 pixels
Transparent
16.7 Million colors

File > Save as > partytext.pspimage

Be sure to hit your save button on a regular basis!

Set the foreground style box to solid fill with a bright color, I am using #B93FD3.
Set your background style box to solid fill with white.

Select your text tool.

Click in your image.

These are the settings I used:
Bauhaus93
Bold
Size 72
Vector selected
Antialias checked
Line width 3

I typed Party Time.

Once the text is placed grab the corner of the formation box and pull the text out to fill the image better.

Objects > Align > Center in Canvas.

In your layer palette right click on the vector layer and convert to raster.

Right click on this layer again and rename it "1".

Selections > Select all.

Selections > Float.

*In some versions of PSP you will need to defloat your selection before doing the next step.

Selections > Modify > Contract > 3 > ok.

Duplicate your original layer twice. Rename each layer - "2" and "3".

Activate the 1 layer.

Effects > Plug-in filters > Eye Candy 4000 > Water Drops > these settings:
Drop size 10.0
Coverage 80
Edge Darkening 0
Opacity 100
Tinting 0
Refraction 0
Liquid color a bright blue, I am using #4159D3
Round drops checked
On the lighting tab -
Highlight brightness & size 0

Apply filter.

Activate the 2 layer.