glittery text tutorial
make this glitter effect on text inspired by this entry (sorry all english is not my primary)language
http://www.livejournal.com/community/icon_tutorial/1912861.html
so take one pattern of blinkies, as suggested by touchofdust (check the link above for more blinkies , scrool down that page)
such as this one
if you need to do a image no bigger than the blinkie
you may want to follow the step 1 of this tutorial and then skip directly to step 4 (and be sure to work in RGB it comes out better)
1. you open the pattern , notice it has a number of layers (3 in this case)
and it's better to unoptimize the animation first (filters>animation>unoptimize) and work with the unoptimized file
2.save each level as a separate image in a GIMP pattern folder wth numbers as file names to remember in wich order they were, reload patterns to make them appear between your patterns
3.open a new file the size you will need for your text or bigger ,you can always crop it later.
make 2 other layers in this new file and fill them with your 3 different patterns
4.now make your text, you need to make negative text: so using selection fill the outside of text and clear the inside. YOu need to have transparent text. (I hope you all know how text tool works)
5.copy the text layer 2 times e make a layer "sandwich" such this one
6. merge down each text layer with a pattern layer
7. save as gif (chose to save animation!) (you could optimize for gif before saving it)