I thought I would start trying to give you all some "quick" ways to jazz up an otherwise plain tag...This first one shows you how to quicklie make sparkles coming out of a corner. I hope you all enjoy this, for you veteran taggers it is probably no surprise, but for the ones that are just learning or at your medium level, it might be helpful.  Thank you for doing this little pizzaz tut!!

please note that this IS NOT a tutorial on how to make a whole tag, it is for the sparkler effect only

Here is what the sparkler will look like: 

EASY CORNER SPARKLES (this is not a tag tutorial)

1. OPEN UP A NEW IMAGE SIZE 600 X 275 TRANSPARENT

2. FLOOD FILL WITH THE COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE. (KEEP IT FAIRLY DARK

SO THAT YOUR SUNSHINE IS VISIBLY NOTICABLE.)

3. GO TO "EFFECT" SCROLL DOWN AND CLICK ON "ILLUMINATION EFFECTS"

AND CHOOSE "SUNBURST".

4. USE THESE SETTINGS:
     COLOR: WHITE
     LIGHT SPOT: BRIGHTNESS=32
                             HORIZONTAL=0
                             VERTICAL=0
     RAYS:
     DENSITY: 32
     BRIGHTNESS: 100
     CIRCLES:
     BRIGHTNESS: 100

5. YOUR SUNBURST SHOULD BE RIGHT IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF

YOUR TAG, IF IT IS NOT ADJUST IT TO FIT BY DRAGGING THE CROSS HAIRS IN

THE LEFT WINDOW OF YOUR SUNBURST WINDOW.

6. MAKE 4 COPIES OF THIS FOR A TOTAL OF 5 LAYERS IN YOUR LAYER

PALETTE.

7. HIDE ALL LAYERS EXCEPT THE BOTTOM LAYER, AND CLICK ON IT TO

HIGHLIGHT IT (MAKING IT THE ACTIVE LAYER).

8. GO TO "EFFECTS/XENOFEXII" AND CHOOSE "CONSTELLATION", IN YOUR

"CONSTELLATION" EFFECT USE THESE SETTINGS:
STAR SIZE: 4.34
STAR VARIATION: 19
EDGE STAR DENSITY: 13
OVERALL STAR DENSITY: 0
OVERDRIVE: 100
TWINKLE AMOUNT: 100
TWINKLE ROTATION: 45
BACKGROUND FILL: UNCHECKED
KEEP ORIGINAL IMAGE: CHECKED
MAKE SELECTION TRANSPARENT: UNCHECKED
RANDOM SEED BUTTON: CLICK ONE TIME
CLICK OK

9. REPEAT STEP 8 FOR THE OTHER 4 LAYERS KEEPING EVERYTHING THE

SAME. (BE SURE TO REMEMBER TO CLICK THE RANDOM BUTTON ONCE

EACH TIME SO EACH LAYER HAS A DIFFERENT "PATTERN" OF STARS)

10. YOUR CORNER SPARKLER IS NOW READY TO GO TO ANIMATION.