Animating Text

Animating Text

Step 1

Created a new document with a black background that is 200 pixels by 200 pixels. The size does not really matter, I just pulled the dimensions out of a hat.
Select the text tool option from the tool bar and to put some text on our blank document. I used yellow text because it stands out very nicely on a black background.
Make sure that you make relatively large text, I used Gil Sans Ultra Bold font and set the text size to 28 pixels. That way it will be very easy to distinguish the rotating effect and be easily legible.

Click on the text on your document using the selection tool and then click on modify on the toolbar, then animate, then animate selection.
Look at the image below you will see the settings that I used. You can play around with these settings to get your own nifty effects.

Once you click on OK it will animate your selection and you now have text that fades in and rotates three hundred degrees clockwise. If ask to extend the frames, answer yes. Play around with the settings a bit and you can come up with even more impressive animations.
Open the Optimizer Panel (Window>Optimize) and choose animated gif from the drop down menu.
Select the last frame in the Frame Panel (Window>Frames) and set it to 150 by double clicking on the number on the right side of the dialog box. This will drop down a menu where you will replace the default number 7.
This is what your finished product should look like:

This technique is very simple to do a simple animation and even more complex animations can be achieved with a bit more time put into it. Make sure you have the file optimization set to animated gif, and then select the last frame of the animation and set it to 150. This way your animation will stop on the last frame and you can easily read the final product.