On the document window, drag the text down to the bottom of the screen. This will create a yellow diamond which is an animation keyframe. Go to the timeline and click the arrow on the left of the track name, to reveal the animation options.Ĭlick the stopwatch icon to the left of the word Transform. This is where we are going to do our animation. You will notice that a new document opens with the contents of the smart object displayed. (I wrote a book on this kind of stuff in Flash (How to Wow With Flash) and I can adapt these techniques to work in Photoshop.įind our Smart Object with the text and double click the thumbnail
This is where the magic of a nested animation comes in handy. You won’t get a decent result animating it on this timeline. I know you are tempted to try and animate things right now, but resist the urge. You will now see a timeline appear in Photoshop. Right in the middle of the Timeline, you will see a button that says “Create Video Timeline.” Go ahead and click it Open the timeline from the Window>Timeline menu if it’s not visible. You can use any version of Photoshop to get to where we are right now, but you will need CS6 or CC to animate it. We are going to make it move! Animating the Star Wars Intro Perspective text in Photoshop CS6 or CC.
This is where other tutorials end (Hopefully, Youtubers won’t rip off this tutorial, like they have a lot of my other tutorials, so sad). We have now made an image of the Star wars perspective text effect.
Star wars intro video for free#
With the text Smart Object active in the Layers panel, Press Cmd/Ctrl+T for free transformĭrag the top corner in to make a perspective shape. making the Star Wars Perspective text Now, we can transform this smart object. Right click on the text’s Thumbnail in the Layers panel and choose “Convert to Smart Object” (I thank my days as a Flash designer for figuring out this kind of stuff). Or can you? I have figured out a sneaky way of doing it, that is the key to this technique working. You will notice that you can’t add perspective to a paragraph of text without rasterizing it. That allowed enough time by the 8th line down to start the 9th back on the top line, with "wiggle room" for each line for adjustment.We now want to add some perspective to the text. I used about 8 lines on the timeline to overlap the ending of one line of text with the next incoming line. That took some "playing around" to get it just right. The only trouble was moving each image/effect on the timeline so that the spacing was equal. Then I just copied/pasted that same effect for each line, in the order of the text. I created an effect that does the motion from bottom to middle, geometrically gives the appearance of moving away, and does the fade out - all in about 7 seconds. Running one line at a time - and as it fades out, the next one starts to scroll in, works well because it allows time to read the line. There had to be enough space between the lines to avoid the flicker.
Star wars intro video generator#
What I had to do is use the text generator and do each line individually and use effects for the motion. My first attempt was to create frames of the text and use effects to have the frame scroll up and geometrically shrink and move "inward" in 3D space. There is a lot of text, and even using the simplest text, once there are more than 2 lines, the flicker gets worse until there is a break. I'm creating a "sci-fi" laser show and the start of the show is exactly the text crawl.Ī big problem is flicker. I had to do the same thing over the past 2 weeks.