Making your font "write"

Here's what we're going to learn how to do. Although it looks complicated, i managed to do the tutorial in 4 steps.

Set up the banner as normal. Duplicate your background twice. Type what you want to "write" itself. Right click on the font layer and select Alpha to Selection. Hit the delete button on your keyboard. This will remove the color, but keep the font outline









Merge the font layer down to the background copy. Now with your paint brush, paint on a bit of the font. Duplicate this layer, and continue with the paintbrush with another little piece. Duplicate. Paint. Repeat, until you have painted the whole of the writing. Remember, to make this effective, think to yourself, "How would i write this?" This should be how you paint the font


As you can see, i ended up with 29 copies of the background. It doesn't matter how many you end up with. Always duplicate and paint a piece.





To save, save it as a gif and save as animation. In the 3rd window, make sure the loop forever is checked. Select how fast you want it. Frame delay should be set to combine, so it flows to the next layer :)