I really liked Judy's results using the gold-silver drops animation that she shared, so I wanted to give it a play. Although I think Judy's results look great, I wasn't happy with the way the "gold" drops (which are kind of orange) looked with the gold outline on my text. The two golds just seemed to clash
![](http://www.gabitos.com/animationssmilies/images/emthink.jpg)
no matter what font I chose.
So I took Judy's gold-silver drops (to the left) and replaced the four "gold" colors with four other colors using Animation Shop (Animation>Replace Color). I'll share the four colors that I used in case you like my results. The four colors that I used from light to dark are
#F5EEC2,
#DAD09F,
#CBBB88,
#BFAB79. I picked these colors from the tbt-gold pattern.
The font I used is another awesome Kingthings Font called
Gothique. This font has holes in it that I selected, filled, glassed and colored. I like the results because it reminds me of gemstones. I experimented with other colors but nothing looked as good as this color, so that is why I used it.
I wanted to experiment again with an animated motion trail, so I added one using Eye Candy 4000 after having looked at Eye Candy 3 and Eye Candy 5 Impact. If anyone knows of another filter
![](http://www.gabitos.com/animationssmilies/images/emidea.gif)
that creates a motion trail, then please let me know. At the apex of the motion trail I placed an animated star
![](http://www.gabitos.com/animationssmilies/images/emstar.gif)
that I created to give the idea that the star is generating the motion trail towards the text
![](http://www.gabitos.com/animationssmilies/images/emsmiled.gif)
. I don't know if I succeeded there, but that was the idea
![](http://www.gabitos.com/animationssmilies/images/emsmilep.gif)
. Since the drops are only gold and silver, I colored them a little, but not so much as to remove all the gold, so the trail would blend in color with the "gemstones". Normally I reduce the opacity of a motion trail but when I did, it looked so washed out, so I opted for full opacity.
If anyone is interested in any specific details, then let me know, and I can edit this post to include them.