Animated Signature.

[Extasey]

I made this about 10 minutes ago in Photo Shop, the hardest part was figuring out how to save it so it moved!



It's crap, I know. It was more of a test thing.

What I want to know, is there any tricks to make things easier. Say I wanted this text:


To slowly "grow"... How would I do this, would I have to do a lot of copy and pasteing, resizing each line every frame? Or is there something that can do this for me and make it smooth?

[Conspiracy]

Umm you could try selecting the text by clicking on the image in the layers menu and then feathering it in / out by however many pixels you're stepping from. Just repeat this.

[ElephantShoe]

Or you can duplicate the text layer enough times. Then set each layer 5-10% opacity within eachother.

For example:

Text Layer1: 0%
Text Layer2: 5%
Test Later3: 10%

etc..

When you get to 100%, you do reverse, so..

Text Layer1: 100%
Text Layer2: 95%
Text Layer3: 90%

It's kind of annoying having to make them viable after every layer though.

This is what you're talking about right?



It would have been smoother but I was using opacity increments of 10%. 5% would be better.

[Conspiracy]

Elephant I think he wants it to grow, not fade.

[ElephantShoe]

Elephant I think he wants it to grow, not fade.

Grow? So like this?



You can either re-size the font with Ctrl + T every time, or just change the font size on all of the text layers. I would go by increments of .5 or 1.

[Conspiracy]

I was thinking more like Let's say a circle starting with 1 pixel thickness, then 2 pixel thickness and so on, But without moving the original circle.

[Evo]

Is it possible for me to get that font? Looks pretty decent

[Codine]

Any chance you could make this into a tutorial?? I'd like to make some moving graphics \/

[WirelessWave]

I feel really left out i have absolutly no idea how to animate gifs, i just use this:

http://lunapic.com/editor/


Extasey please teach me

[Extasey]

Ok i'll write a tutorial later on tonight. I have a party for my birthday... but i'll try to fit it in haha.

I ment grow as in the origional text is there, but the random lines etc etc sprout and grow out like a weed on the side of it... I saw someone else had done it, I'll try and find their signature again... It looked awesome!