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Animating text

Animating text - Photoshop Tutorial

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Animating text

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- The use of text in a video can be very helpful, particularly when you want to drive people to call a phone number or visit a website. And if you can add subtle animation or a build effect to the text, it makes it much easier to draw attention and push people to action. The tools in Photoshop are pretty basic for animating text. If you want to do complex text animation, be sure to explore Adobe After Effects if you have access to this in your Creative Cloud plan. In this case, I've done some simple text setting and, on the layer itself, taken advantage of some things like a stroke, drop shadow, and bevel. This makes it easier for things to be readable. Now simply save off a PNG file to make this easy to work with. Quick Export as PNG, and save it to the folder. What you can now do is add that into your project. Now, if I make this a bit bigger, I know that later in our video we start to see some elements with the website. And what I want to do is, when we're looking at the website…

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