I need help with making an image-in-text animation

[mfds]

Hey there guys, this is my first (hopefully not last) post on the forum as I'm a pretty big newbie I would love to know how to make a text on a white background and a couple of images in the text (after making it transparent with Magic Wand->Background Eraser Tool) and make them come up and out in a very fast animation, then export it into a .gif

So far my biggest problems are:

a) When I use magic wand and background eraser on this font, it leaves very small thin lines on the ends which form a sharp, annoying edge when you put a picture in the text.
b) I have no idea how to make images in an animation, I only know how to insert an animated gif into a transparent area and let it play there.



This is a prime example of what I want to do Help will be VERY Appreciated guys!

 

[IamSam]

Ok, I'll show you a simple way to do this.

Create a document 600px wide and 200px height.
Fill with white.



Crate a new layer.
Choose you text tool and type (whatever you want) a word in the center.
Do use something different than I did for now.



I'm going to use solid colors for this next part for ease, however, these next layers would be the patterns you see flashing in your example.

Create a new layer and fill it with blue.
Right click the "blue" layer and select create clipping mask or hover your cursor between the two layers while holding down the alt/option key, you will see the cursor turn into a box with a black angled arrow pointing down, then click.

You should now have blue colored text....



Create a new layer and fill it with pink.
Right click the "pink" layer and select create clipping mask or hover your cursor between the two layers while holding down the alt/option key, you will see the cursor turn into a box with a black angled arrow pointing down, then click.

You should now have pink colored text....



Create a new layer and fill it with red.
Right click the "red" layer and select create clipping mask or hover your cursor between the two layers while holding down the alt/option key, you will see the cursor turn into a box with a black angled arrow pointing down, then click.

You should now have red colored text....



This is what your layers panel should look like...



Next, you need turn off red and pink layers leaving just the blue.

Open your timeline panel. Go to WINDOW > TIMELINE.
In the timeline choose Create Frame Animation. Click on this.



You should now have one frame in your timeline. White BG with blue letters.



Click the "Duplicate selected frames" icon in the timeline controls. This will duplicate the first frame.
Go to your layers panel and turn off the blue layer and turn on the pink layer.

You should now have two frames in your timeline. First, White BG with blue letters. Second, White BG with pink letters.



Click the "Duplicate selected frames" icon in the timeline controls. This will duplicate the second frame.
Go to your layers panel and turn off the pink layer and turn on the red layer.

You should now have three frames in your timeline. First, White BG with blue letters. Second, White BG with pink letters. Third, White BG with red letters.



Almost done! Highlight the first frame in the timeline, hold the shift key and than click on the third frame, this should have then all selected. Click on the down arrow button on one of the selected frames so we can change the delay time. Set to 0.5 secs.



Set your looping option to forever.
Then click the play button. You should see the letters flashing blue, pink, red.

Go to FILE > SAVE FOR WEB

Select GIF, and forever under looping options.

Should look like this.



The lesson here is that we substituted solid colors for the different BG's flashing in your example.
Using this method allows you to add as many clipped images to the gif as you please.
Good luck!

Here is the exact same process using different clipped images.



Layers panel..

 

[MrToM]

Here's one way:

1. Create 3 layers.
Substitute the Blue and Red colour for your images.
Do another layer on top of those and fill with white.
Add your text, this will create its own layer.
Hold down Ctrl and click the TEXT Thumbnail (The big 'T').
You'll get the 'Marching Ants' around the text.




2.
Turn OFF the text layer and select the White layer then press 'Delete'.




3.
[Optional] Delete the text layer.
You should now have a 'text' shaped hole in the white layer.....showing the red layer underneath.
Turn OFF the red layer. (Not shown)




4.
Nav to Window > Timeline
Select 'Frame Animation' if it doesn't automatically show you frames. (I missed this grab, sorry).




5.
You should have something like this:




6.
Click the 'Duplicate Frame' icon....it should be the only one not greyed-out.
You'll get a duplicate frame (Frame 2).




7.
Make sure Frame 2 is selected.....
Make sure Frame 2 IS selected....this is very important.
Turn ON the red layer.




8.
Set the time for each frame by clicking the small arrow.
(You can change all the frames simultaneously if they are all selected).




9.
Set the 'Repeat' mode....you'll want 'Forever'. This is just under frames 1+2.
You can test the animation at this point by pressing the 'play' icon.



10.
Nav to File > Save For Web...
Use the SECOND dropdown list to select GIF....do not use the 'Preset' dropdown.
If you test the animation whilst here, (note the controls near the bottom of the window), it may, and I stress may not play correctly. This is a glitch in the software so ignore it, if you set your times right for each frame then it should be ok.

Save it out.

That should get you started if nothing else.

Regards.
MrTom.

 

[mfds]

WOW! Guys thank you so much, both!!!

 

[Paul]

Show us what you get from the help supplied please.