| This Tutorial will show you how to "Walk" text into view. |
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| 1.) Open ImageReady. Press D, then X on the keyboard to set the Background color to Black. Create a New file. Go to File> New. Make it 300 X 150 pixels on Background color, then click OK to Create. |
2.) At the bottom
of the Layers palette, select the Create
a new layer icon  . |
3.) Select the Type
tool  .
Go to the Options bar and Select the font. I used Impact 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 #0000FF at the Bottom input box to select the color I used, then click OK to apply. |
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4.) Click on the work
area and Type your First letter of Text. Select the Move
tool 
to Commit. Reselect the Type 
tool and Type the Second letter, then press V to Commit. Repeat
process until there are a total of 4 letters, all
on Separate layers. (Be sure to click a small distance away from
previous Letter so a New layer is Created each time.) |
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| Now, Move each letter into position as shown below. (To move... First Select it's layer, then go to the work area and Drag into position.) |
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Animation palette
should appear as shown: |
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| 5.) At the bottom
of the Animation palette, click the Duplicate
Frame icon ,
to generate a second duplicate Frame. |
| 6.) Now, in the Layers palette, click on the W layer. Using the arrows on the keyboard, nudge the letter to the "Left" out of view. |
| Click on the A layer, nudge the letter "Up" out of view. |
| Click on the L layer, nudge the letter "Down" out of view. |
| Click on the K layer, nudge the letter "Right" out of view. |
| With Frame 2 now black, click on Frame 1 and drag to Frame 2 position. Animation palette should now appear as below: |
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7.) Next, click the
Tween button 
located bottom of Animation palette. |
| Dialog box will appear, follow settings Below: |
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| Animation palette will now show tweened Frames. |
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| 8.) Set time delay to Frame 7 by clicking on the 0 at the Bottom of the Frame. A pop-up menu will appear, Select Other and a Dialog box will appear. Type in 1.5 Seconds, then click OK to apply. |
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9.) Animation is now
ready to play by hitting the play button. (For
a more precise animation speed) click the Preview in Browser
button, to view in a browser. |
| 10.) Optimize and Save the file with File > Save Optimized As... Images Only (*.gif) |
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