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  In the layer palette, switch the bottom - raster -layer off. Right click on the top - vector - layer and rename it pos1 (position 1). Click on the little plus sign to the left of the layer name so that the list of layers in the vector opens up, and the plus sign turns to a minus. At the moment the text layer is in bold type, showing that it is selected. Hold down the shift key and click on the ellipse layer so that is selected too. In your image, the vector box and handles should now surround the whole circle and text. If they are not showing, click on the shapes tool.
Now repeat with pos3 what you did to rotate pos2. Click on the pos3 text layer and shift/click on its ellipse layer to make sure only pos3 is selected. Rotate the text till it starts roughly in the middle of the pos2 text. Adjust pos3 so its circle is exactly over the pos2 circle. Switch off pos2 ellipse, switch off pos2 layer and click on its minus sign to close pos2 vector layers up. Save your image. Repeat these steps, duplicating and renaming new layers, selecting and rotating them, adjusting the circle, switching off the previous layer's ellipse layer and the previous layer itself, closing it up, and saving your image until you have rotated the text right round the circle. The last position should overlap to about halfway through the first one. Switch on pos1 to make sure that it does. A small discrepancy you can live with, but if it is wildly off - only just into the pos1 text or overlapping almost to the end of it, you will have to adjust all the layers to even things out. Adjust your final position to make it overlap pos1 more reasonably. Then switch off pos1, switch on the last but one layer and adjust that against the final one. Go down through all your layers and adjust them till you have done pos2. Do not adjust pos1. When you are satisfied that your text movement is pretty much the same in all the layers (100% accuracy is not required), switch off your final position's ellipse layer and save your image. The number of positions you will end up with depends on the length of your text and how much you rotate it at each step. I have 7 position layers in my image. Now move on to page 4 to make an animation from the psp image.
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Right click on the layer name pos1 and from the menu that appears, click on duplicate.
Right click on the name of the new layer and rename it pos2. Click on the plus sign to the left of the name to open the vector layers up. The text and ellipse layers of pos1 and pos2 are all bold, showing that at the moment they are all selected. We only want the layers of pos2 selected, so click on its text layer and shift/click on its ellipse layer. The two pos2 layers are now bold, and the pos1 layers are not. That means that the operations we now do on the image will only affect pos2, and pos1 will remain as it is.
Put your cursor on the rotation handle in your image - the one circled in red in this illustration. When you are on the handle the cursor will change to the rotation cursor.
Click and drag the pos2 text round the circle till it starts roughly in the middle of the pos1 text.
Click on the move handle in the centre of your circle, and drag the pos2 circle and text until the circle is right over the pos1 circle, so that when you let go the mouse there appears to be only one circle in the image.
We have finished with the pos1 layer for now, and hopefully we shall not need its circle again, so switch off its ellipse layer and switch the whole layer off as shown here, and then click on the minus sign to close the pos1 vector layers up. Save your image
Right click on pos2 and duplicate the layer. Rename the new vector layer as pos3.
