This tutorial was written in psp 7 but can be done in all other versions.

You will need:~ Black Wings from dozibaer (second row), Floating Bats HERE, and Font HERE

Eye Candy 3, Glass. HERE

Lokas 3D Shadow (optional) HERE

Open the Bat Floaty gif in Animation Shop and resize by 50%, Bicubic resample and maintain aspect ratio checked:~

Leave it for now and over to psp, open a new image 600x200, white background.

Set your foreground colour to black and your background colour to white, click on the text tool and find your 60 sekuntia font, I used size 60 (you will have to type it into the size box ;o), create as vector, and type out your name with no caps ;o) Stretch it to how you like it and position it in the centre, when finished Layers>Convert To Raster.

Open the dozibaer black wings and with your lasso tool, feather and tolerance both at 0, select the left wing, then Edit>Cut and Edit>Paste as New Image. Image> Resize, Resize All Layers Checked, Bicubic, 80%, repeat this another 5 times. Copy and paste the resized wing as a new layer onto your canvas and drag it below your name layer, position it to the left of your name and then Layers>Duplicate, Image>Mirror, and move the duplicated wing to the right of your name.

Close off the visibilty of your background and name layers (click glasses or eye on layer palette) and Layers>Merge>Merge Visable, rename this layer 'wings' and unhide your background and name layers.

Click on your name layer on your layer palette to make it the active layer and with your Magic Wand, hold down the shift key on your keyboard (other versions select Add/Shift in your magic wand settings ;o) and click inside the white parts of your name.
Rename this layer 'name'.

Layers>New Raster Layer, name it '1' and again Layers>New raster layer and name it '2', repeat this naming all the layers 3, 4, 5 and so on until you have 11.

This is what your layer palette should look like:~

Ok, now for the time consuming part! firstly grab yourself a cuppa!

Over to animation shop, click on the first frame of your bat floaty to activate that frame only (it will have a red border around it) and Edit>Copy *tip, you will probaly find it easier holding down Ctrl+C on your keyboard or clicking the copy button

Back to psp and Edit>Paste as New Image *tip hold down Ctrl+V on your keyboard ot click the Paste New Image button

On your 'Styles' palette select 'Pattern' (psp7, hold down your left mouse over the colour and change to pattern)

Find your bat image in the pattern list, scale 100:~

Click on your layer '1' to make it the active layer and floodfill all selected parts of your name with the bat pattern, when done close the bat image, you don't need it anymore.

Back over to animation shop and click on frame 2 and copy and paste it into psp, in psp change your pattern to the new bat image, making sure that it's not the 'current pattern':~

Click on layer '2' on your layer palette and floodfill with new bat image, when done close it and continue these steps with the rest of the frames one by one, remembering to click and activate each layer in turn in psp ;o)

When you have finished filling layer 11, deselect, (Selections>Select None)

Click on your name layer on your layer palette to make it the active layer and apply Effects>Plugins>Eye Candy 3, Glass, with these settings:~

I added a drop shadow V: -2, H: -2, Opacity: 40, Blur: 4, Colour: #C000C0 and again but changing the -2 to 2, this is optional to your liking. I also added  Lokas 3D, Rear Shadow, opacity 45.

If you want, you can add your watermark as a new layer above your name layer.

Close the visibilty off of all your numbered bat image filled layers leaving ONLY '1' visible, File>Save As png, name it '1', click yes/ok to the pop up box. Hide layer '1' and unhide layer '2' and again save as png naming it '2'. Repeat these steps hiding and unhiding the numbered layers and name them 3, 4, 5 and so on up to layer '11'.

When you have finished go over to Animation Shop, close your bat floaty, and Click 'Animation Wizard'  same size as first image ckecked, click next, Transparent checked, next, Upper left corner of the frame and With the canvas colour checked, next, Yes repeat the animation indefinately checked, 10 in the box below, next, Add Image and find your png1 and Add Image again and find your png2, repeat Add Image for all 11 pngs:~

When done click next and finish, crop your animation, (I changed my frame properties to 13, Edit>Select All, Animation Frame Properties, change to 13, and also resized by 90%) check that it plays ok  and save as gif, we're done!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

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