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Animating type: Motion blur

Animating type: Motion blur - InDesign Tutorial

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Animating type: Motion blur

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- Here's one of my favorite animation effects for type, creating a motion blur, or the illusion thereof. Let's take a look. We'll view it first in the Preview Panel. The type flies in and then comes to a screeching halt. Let me show you how it was done. I'm going to close the Preview Panel and I'm going to turn to the second page of this file which doesn't have any animation on it. I'll switch from Preview to Normal Mode by pressing the letter W. And let's take a look at the various elements we have on this page. First of all we have two blocks of type. "Make a change", "the time is right". Then we have our blurred text. This was actually created in Photoshop. A blur was applied in Photoshop and the file was placed in InDesign. The last element on the page is this reveal box, it's actually a hide box. It's on the top layer and it has the same green fill as our background. What this is going to do is hide the blurred text as it comes in and make sure that it doesn't show up until it…

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