We are setting the beginning of the animation (Tip: Hold down the shift key as you drag to constrain the movement to a vertical alignment). 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.
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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. Powerful enough to destroy an entire planet, its completion spells certain doom for the champions of freedom.We now want to add some perspective to the text. To crush the rebellion once and for all, the EMPIRE is constructing a sinister new battle station. The EMPIRE fears that another defeat could bring a thousand more solar systems into the rebellion, and Imperial control over the galaxy would be lost forever.
Striking from a fortress hidden among the billion stars of the galaxy, rebel spaceships have won their first victory in a battle with the powerful Imperial Starfleet. A brave alliance of underground freedom fighters has challenged the tyranny and oppression of the awesome GALACTIC EMPIRE. It is a period of civil wars in the galaxy. Here's a transcription of the original crawl: Via Imgur, which also contains some neat behind-the-scenes photos from Episode IV and other annotated script pages. Hit the jump to check out the Star Wars original opening crawl and a comparison to what ended up in the final film.
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