Help with After Effects

Sooo i just downloaded after effects on my laptop and opened it up and was like omfg wtf even is this. So obviously i knew I needed help so here i am.



I am asking help on how to create floating particals behind my png text



LIKE THIS

 

Give me a few and I'll find you the video tuts that I watched to learn AE. I didn't use them for sigs, but for editing but techniques are techniques.

 

Thanks a ton man!

 

Any way I could snag these links as well?