| In this Tutorial, I will show you how to swap out text with motion. |
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| 1.) Open Photoshop and create a New file. Go to New > File. Make it 400 X 100 pixels on a Transparent Background at 72 dpi, then click OK. |
2.) Select the Horizontal
Type tool  .
Go to the Options bar and Select the font. I used Viper
Squadron Regular 100 px Sharp. (You may have to manually
input 100 px for size.) Next, click on the Color well to the Right
to launch the Color-Picker. |
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| Select a color or simply type in #663300 at the Bottom input box to select the color I used, then click OK to apply. |
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3.) Click on the work
area and type your Text. Select the Move tool 
to commit and Drag text to Center. |
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4.) In the Layers
palette, Right-Click on this layer and a pop-out menu will appear.
Select Rasterize Layer. Now, Drag this layer Down
to the Create a new layer button 
to Duplicate layer. |
| 5.) Next, go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. Set angle to 0 degree's and distance to 25 pixels, then click OK to apply. |
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| 6.) At he Bottom of
the Layers palette, click the Create a
new layer button
to generate a New blank layer. Now, repeat Steps 3
thru 4 with the next bit of text. Press Ctrl+F
and the Motion Blur Filter will be applied once
again. |
| The Layers palette should now look like this: |
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Click the Bottom layer to Select. Next,
click the Eye icons 
to the Top 3 layers to turn Off their visibility. |
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| We are now ready to move to ImageReady... |
7.) Click on the Edit
in ImageReady button  .
(Located at the bottom of the Tool palette.) |
8.) In the Animation
palette, click on the arrow 
at the top right corner and a pop-out menu will appear. Select Make
Frames From Layers, and All of the layers will be converted
to Frames. (If the Animation palette is not visible,
go to Window > Animation.) |
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| 9.) Set time delays. Set time delay to each frame by clicking on the 0 at the Bottom of each Frame. |
| Set Frame 1 (2.0 sec.), Frame 2 (0.2 sec.), Frame 3 (2.0 sec.), Frame 4 (0.2 sec.) |
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10.) Animation is
now ready to play by hitting the play button. (For a more precise
animation speed) click the Preview in Browser button
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to view in a browser. |
| 11.) Optimize and Save the file with File > Save Optimized As... Images Only (*.gif) |
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