Tutorial ImageReady - Friday, November 09, 2007
Flash Text in Photoshop and Imageready

1. Create a new File in Photoshop, of a banner size. 2. Fill the background with a dark colour, like black or 50% grey. 3. Now use Horizontal Type tool, to write something in a new Layer. 4. After writing text, go to that layer, and duplicate it. So

5. Now apply a Filter (Menu Filter ==> Blur ==> Motion Blur and in the window, put the angle at 0 degrees, and distance to 75, and click OK button.) to copied Text layer, and before it will be asked to Rasterize it, and you say OK, as you can see in the image.

6. After applying the filter, put the copied layer, below the original Text layer.

7. Select the copied layer again, and apply the Motion Blur Filter again.

8. You can change Text colour, and fill the background with grey at 50%... as you can see in the following image:

9. Now double click the Text original layer, and apply following Blending Options. In "Blending Options" Window, go to Fill Opacity and change its value to 50%.

10. Then go to Inner Glow and Outer Glow, and try to configure it?s values, as shown below:

11. Now let?s go to Adobe Image Ready and animate it, to see how it looks, click on toolbar button to get transferred to Imageready.

12. In Imageready environment, go to Animation Window, and click on the button: Duplicate Current Frame, to duplicate that frame, so we can animate it, as shown below.

13. After that, choose the first Frame in this window, and go to Layers Window, and click on the Eye Icon, to hide that Layer (kundanweb.com copy) in first Frame, as you can see in image below:

14. Now select the second Frame in animation Window, and go again to Layers Window, and click on Eye Icon, to make it appear, so it can be active in second Frame.

15. Now select again the First frame, in animation Window, and click on option: Tweens animation Frames, and a Window will open:

16. In that Window, do the following configurations, and click on OK button, as you can see in following image:

17. After that, just go to menu File, and save your Animation, and you'll see that more frames have been added in Animation Window. Just click on play button, on the same Window, to see your Animation?.

Here is an example:

Doesn't it look like FLASH TEXT ???

Hope You people like it? give some feedback