STEP 1
Open a new transparent image 500 X 300.

STEP 2
Open your glitter fill in Animation shop. On the first frame, click the arrow on it, Ctrl+C. Now go to PSP, Ctrl+V. Minimize it. Repeat this step for each glitter fill frame.

STEP 3
Choose your text tool. Find the font you want to use, the size is up to you, antialias, auto kern, and floating all checked. Hit ok. Do not deselect.

STEP 4
In the layer palette, promote the floating selection to layer, duplicate this layer 2 more times. You should now have 3 layers. Click the glasses on your duplicated layers to shut them off. Click on the first layer to activate it. Use your magic wand to click one of the letters, then Selections > Modify > Select Similar. Delete Layer 1, it's empty now.

STEP 5
Click on your flood fill tool. Now make either your foreground or background patterns. Remember, your copies of the glitter fills will be in numerical order, so you can find them easily. Now find the first glitter fill. Flood fill your text with this. Keep selected. Shut this layer off, activate your second layer. Go to your patterns cache, and find the second glitter fill. Flood fill, keep selected. Shut this layer off, activate your third layer. Go to your patterns cache again, find the third glitter fill. Flood fill, deselect, click the glasses on all the layers.

STEP 6
Choose your crop tool. Now go into the tool options, crop settings, select opaque area-merged, ok. Now, double click outside the line around your image...it's now cropped to size :)

STEP 7
Add a new raster layer, name it background. This will help you when you go to merge stuffies. Flood fill with a color of your choice. Now duplicate this layer 2 more times, for a total of three background layers.

Arrange them so that the background layers are below your text layers, like this:

STEP 8
Click the glasses on the first four layers. Now right click on Background, Merge > Merge Visible. Click the glasses on this merged layer. Click the glasses on the next 2 above this layer to activate them. Right click on Copy of Background, Merge > Merge Visible. Click the glasses on this merged layer. Now click the glasses on the last two layers. Right click on Copy of Copy of Background, Merge > Merge Visible. Now click all of the glasses so there are no red x's on any of them. You should be back to 3 layers. Save as a .psp format file.

STEP 9
Go to Animation Shop, click on the little file to open. Find your saved file. Once you have it opened, go to View > Animation. Save your animation as a .gif file and viola! You're done!

You can do this with just about anything...even images. I suggest practicing with text until you get it, then move onto masks to make some kewl animated frames. This is really easy, even though it seems like there are a lot of steps. I can have one of these animations put together in about 3 minutes, give or take a few minutes depending on what I'm working with. I hope this tutorial was fun and easy. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me. Here are some examples of what you can do with animated flood fills :)