Create a new document 400 x 300px and fill it will black. Type the text in "Edwardian Script ITC", font-size 160 pt. Then, Go to the path palette and press the Make work path from selection button.

Step 2
Now the text is a path it is posible to stroke it with the brush. But before that you need to change the brush options.




Step 4
Go to the layer palette and double click on the layer miniature of the sparkles layer to open the layer style window. Go to Drop Shadow and change the values as shown below:






















