Create Glitter Text in Photoshop & Animation Shop

June 29, 2008

This Create Glitter Text in Photoshop & Animation Shop Tutorial will explain how to create glitter text and how to animate your text.

This text effect can be really fun - it makes your boring, simple text look far more interesting and once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it, using different colours, fonts, glitter fills, this should also help to improve your knowledge of Photoshop as well as the wonderful Imageready.

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End Result

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Create Glitter Text in Photoshop & Animation Shop Tutorial - The Steps


  • Open a new document, mine is 400×400.And fill it with any color, I will use this #FF00EA
  • Now write anything you want to and add a black stroke to the text. Take a look.
  • Now merge all the layers and crop the image a little.
  • Duplicate the layer and press W in your keyboard and select the pink background.
    You will get something like this. Take a look.
  • Now delete all the pink parts, but only in the first layer. Don’t change a thing on the second layer.
  • Now add a new stroke to this image. I will add a white one and also I will add some glass effect. Take a look.
  • Now we going to repeat all this again. Merge all and duplicate your layer and add a new stroke but
    this one we going to use a silver glitter fill. Take a look.
  • Now click again the W and go to Selection >> Invert or click Shift+ctrl+I. Take a look.
  • Now go add a new layer and fill that selected part with the glitter fill you going to use. Take a look.
  • Copy all and paste it in Animation Shop 3
  • Now in the photoshop glitter text go back till that new layer is added and added the next glitter fill.
  • Paste it in Animation Shop again and you will get something like this.
  • Now go in the Animation Shop to Animation >> Replace color and click on the pink background click ok and do that till the background is out.
  • Now save it as gif and you have your own cool glitter! Take a look.
  • And that’s it! If you have any problems or questions regarding this Create Glitter Text in Photoshop & Animation Shop Tutorial then please do leave a comment below.