Welcome to my brief tutorial for making curved text with a plugin filter. 
First you will need the filter shear 8bf . Unzip into your PSP plugins folder. Make sure you have in your windows system folder the plugin.dll and the msvcrt10.dll , these files are zipped and you will need to unzip and direct to windows system folder. 

Now for the good part. 

1. Make your picture. 
2. Add a new layer and add your text. 
3. Defloat your text, you will be actually shearing the entire layer. 
4. Rotate text by 90 degrees. 
5. Take to filter shear, now this filter may be hiding in a subcategory distort. 
6. Shape your text, this takes practise and you may need to do it more than once to get the desired effect. 
7. Hit ok, and rotate text back. Now text will be white. Need to colorize it. 
8. There are 2 ways to accomplish this. PSP way. Go to the colors menu and choose adjust brightness/contrast. Make it grey. Next take to colors menu again and choose colorize. Use the sliders to adjust the hue and saturation to your satisfaction. 
The way that I use requires Eye Candy by Alien Skin . I take the text to the glass filter and choose the color I want and 100% opacity. I play with the lighting till I get a nice glass effect. 
9. Done! :) 
