The first patterned text graphic is as per the lesson. The second has settings for the Cutout of Vertical-10, Horizontal-10, Opacity-50, and Blur-9. The Drop Shadow is 3,3,50, 5 for those settings.

   
Pattern I    Pattern II

The curved text below was a lot of fun to play with. I had something like a distorted figure eight with the text left aligned. The font is "Beesknees", size-20.



The Text Titles below are the bevel, wave and enamel effects










All of the images were exported to GIF transparent. Alternately, I could have put them on a matching background color to this.