<The Animated Text Tutorial (in imageready CS)>

Well i wanted to make a tutorial, and this thing kept me busy for a while:

How to move text in your signature/avatar???

[The Easy Way]

Warning: You will need Adobe ImagereadyCS to complete this tutorial.

Step 1: Open up Adobe Imageready.

Step 2: Go to Window> and open (pick an image around 20-22kb, since tipits kb limit is 30kb) check all options below:

Step 3: now you open up your image you want to get the text on

(File> open etc.)

Step 4: Now you opened your image, now you select the 'Type Text'' Tool:

Step 5: Select the font you want in the sig, where ''Visitor TT2 BRK'' is located.

Step 6: When you found a nice font, click on the area you want your text to be.

(if you dont like the location, you can zoom in by using the ''Zoom'' tool, or by pressing 'z' on your keyboard and use the 'Move' tool, or by pressing the 'v' on your keyboard.

Pic:

Step 7: When you've done this, click 5 times (depends on file size) on the 'Duplicate' button below:

Then you end up with this:

Step 8: (I will use Fading text, but it can be moved also, just how you want it.) Now you click the first frame, only click. then you go to the right, where you see 'Opacy 100%':

you set the opacy to 20%.

Step 9: Now click the second frame, and set the Opacy to 40%

Step 9b: Click third frame, set opacy to 60%

Step 9c: Click fourth frame, set opacy to 80%.

Step 9d: Click the final fifth frame, and set opacy to 100% (if this isnt done yet.)

We allmost finished the flashing text, now we set the frame speed.

Step 10: Click the first frame, and while you press 'Shift' on your keyboard, you click the fifth frame, it will change to this:

Step 11: where you see '0 sec.' above, you click the arrow pointing down.

you will see alot of options you can choose, but we will go the other way:

click 'other', and set the delay to 0,4 seconds.

Click 'ok' and the frame speed will change from 0 sec to 0,4 sec.

then you click the fifth frame, and set the speed to 1 sec.

Congratulations, you just finished this tutorial! :)

but now we want to see it to, and check if we didnt went over the file limit.

we do this by clicking File> Preview in> Internet Explorer (this can be firefox also, thats different.)

and when you clicked this, you will see some codes, and the file size.

Note: when i clicked it, it said 41kb, because i forgot to reduce it to 20kb. :roll:

Then you Save it as File> Save Optimized, it will keepon moving that way.

The final result:

C/C is welcome, i hope you learned from it :wink:

Thanks for that i learnt a lot from this now i can make it move :D

it looks cool :P

Thanks for that i learnt a lot from this now i can make it move :D

i can't find preview...but i almost have it done!!!!!!!! :D :D

this is all i have:

hmm... :?

i think i got the problem:

is it Adobe Imageready CS?

i think your using 7.0 :roll: :wink:

i'm using cs2.....i have the animation done i just don't know how to make it hold the animation when i save it

this is what the photoshop is looking like so far........

hang on pic mesed upp

edit:

here

note: i couldn't get the whole window....was glitching :( i can get the other half

hmm try to zoom out?

as in the whole window?

edit: here:

i meen, unselect the zoom Tool, by clicking on text tool or something.

did you checked and unchecked all options at step nr 2 btw?

hm.... everything cheked except for image map which i can't seem to find :?

and i unselected the zoom ting........

try it all over again, maybe that works...

its so strange, when i do it its allways there... :?

oke doke :roll:

eerm red??

in the whole wide pic above, ur using adobe photoshop????????

with a strange blue feather instead of green??

oh i see.... i have photo shop cs2 (version 9.0)

u have version 8.0

aha new discoveries: i DO have cs2 (9.0) but i also do have the oarnge feathers. i have to bring it into an imageready then its the oarnge feathers :wink:

thats still confusing even to me.... :?

the only thing i need help with now is how the heck to save it! :oops: i now have the image map and stuff still

help :oops:

lol i thought i had the newest :o :lol:

lol i thought i had the newest :o :lol:

oh...look at my previous post just edited

ooo, to save it, thats easy.

click save optimized as, then its keeps moving.

thanks for using my tut :P

it works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yayayayayayayayayayayay

thx man :D :D :D :D

hehe no problem 8)

tip: you can set the first frame to Opacy 0%, and set it to 1 sec, that way

the text is totally gone, and fades in later :wink:

anymore replys ppl?

Nice from your part doing a tut... usefull for those who want to learn some basics of PS :D

GJ

~komodo

same^

thanks, thanks :)