Making Puffy Text

This is not an original tutorial. I’ve seen many of these tags around, and this was my attempt to recreate it.
You can find a lovely version here at Katz Korner, a MSN group, and her terms state that the tutorial can be linked.
Her version uses Eyecandy and I wanted to do one that didn’t use outside filters.

 1)  Open your tube and find (or colourize) a pattern to match. I’m using this bunny and pattern

2)  Open a fairly large canvas – I use 600 x 400 -  and flood fill with white.
You’ll need lots of room to maneuver and can crop and/or resize when you’re done.

 3)  Choose a colour from your tube and with a nice, fat font set at 72, stroke 2 background nil,
type your text ‘floating’ and promote to raster layer. I used 'Crazy Harold' which you can download HERE

4)  Add a new layer and pull below the text. With your magic wand, select the area inside your text
 and modify --> expand by 1 and flood fill with your pattern ON THE EMPTY LAYER BELOW THE TEXT.

 5)  Give the pattern fill a bevel (as below or to your liking), X off your background layer, and merge visible.

6)  Copy & paste your tube to your working canvas as a new layer. Arrange the text and picture where you want it,
remembering that the text is going to be much larger when you’re done.

7)  Make a new raster layer, pull to below the text, and duplicate 3 times
(4 blank layers between the background and the text).

 8)  Click on the text layer. Selections --> all  then selections --> float then selections --> defloat.
Go to Selections --> modify --> expand, and expand by 4 pixels. DO NOT DESELECT.

 9)  Click on your top blank layer (directly below the text) and flood fill with white or a very pale colour from your tube.

 10)  Keeping area selected, modify selection again – expand by 5 pixels. Move to the next layer down and
flood fill with a contrasting colour from your tube.

 11)  Expand selection by 4 pixels again, move down one layer and flood fill with white or other light colour used

12)  Expand selection by 3 pixels, and on your bottom blank layer, flood fill with the colour
you used to outline your original text layer.

13)  Position your graphic again, and crop your image. Your layers should look like this:

 14)  Add a nice soft drop shadow to your picture and to the very bottom text fill layer. Open your background layer.

 15)  Click on the layer below text filled with the contrast colour and duplicate it two times.

16)  Close off the original and first copy, and click on the top copy.
Go to adjust --> add/remove noise--> add noise and set as shown:

17)  Click on the middle copy, add noise again but set at 23, and then on the original layer add noise at 26  

18) Close off the top two ‘noise’ layers.  All other layers should be open.
Go to edit --> copy merged. Open Animation Shop and paste as a new animation.

 19)  Back in PSP, close off the noise layer, and open the one above.
Repeat the copy merged, and paste ‘after the current frame’ in the animation. 

20)  Repeat with the top noise layer. Resize if you want, view animation
and if you’re happy with it, save as a gif.