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    Myspace Glitter Comments Tutorial
Cool Myspace Comment. It is an easy tutorial for you to create a nice animated text glitter for any personal blog. That includes hi5, Friendster, Xanga, Piczo, Orkut, TagWorld, Tagged or any of the others you participate on. Enjoy it!
   

  Let`s set up the canvas size first:
   
  Write te text you want to animate:
   
  Now we need to make this text beautiful so what we gonna do is
Right-click on the text layer and select Blending Options:


   
  Blending mode: Outer Glow
   
  Blending mode: Inner Glow
   
  Blending mode: Bevel and Emboss
   
  Blending mode: Gradient Overlay
   



  Blending mode: Stroke
   

So, now your text should look like this:



Everything`s ok so far? Let`s animate the text now ... i know you are anxious about it:

As in our Glitter Graphic tutorial we need texture, i`ll take this one for eg. :




I`ll duplicate them twice and rotate them with 180 degrees and 90 degrees CW

180 degrees:




90 CW degrees:



Next step, select text layer holding CTRL and clicking in the same time:



Now invert the selection (Ctrl + I) and going on each layer press Delete.

Press Ctrl + D to deselect

This is what you should have by now:


Then set each of the 3 layers on Lighten blend mode:



And at the end by making visible one at the time each of these 3 layers you should
provide to ImageReady 3 frames as it shown in the picture below:








Using a little bit of ImageReady knowledges,



we should have: