Applying Puppet Warp to editable text

In this movie, I'll show you how to apply Puppet Warp to life, editable text. …And the great thing about this is it allows you to create a unique text effect …that you really cannot pull off any other way. …And it will allow us to animate our text as well. …If you're working along with me scroll to the top of the Layers panel and you'll …find two layers that are turned off. One is balloon which is a custom shape …layer and the other is squawk which is a layer of editable text, created in Myriad …Pro Condensed. I'm going to go ahead an zoom in on this …text to 100% view size. And what we want to do is create a few …copies of the text object. And I want it to ultimately animate so …that its more or less fills up this talk balloon.…

So I'm going to create a copy of the layer by selecting it and then pressing …Ctrl+J or Cmd+J on a Mac. And just so we can see our various layers …as we work on them. I'm going to change the color of this top …text layer to red. So I'll go ahead and dial in the value, 0 …