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Hand Written look?
Hi All,
I have been suplied with a psd that sort of looks like a hand written font – but I cant find the actual font anywhere. Its a strong part of branding from the client so I need to use this file. My predicament is that they have asked for it to reveal as if it was being written by hand. I’m wondering the best way to do this? Its a three word sentence, I’m guessing that a way might be with masks or with a pen tool set in such a way that t reveals the text. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated 🙂
Thanks, Adam.
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4 Replies
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You can use the pen tool to draw a series of open masks that match the contour of the handwriting. Draw from left to right, as the strokes would be written. Each mask represents a stroke of the pen.
Next, apply the stroke effect, set to “all masks”, and animate its end point from 0 to 100. You may wish to set it to “reveal original image”.
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You can also use the psd file as an alpha matte. Now create a new solid layer, and add the vector paint filter. Set the filter to paint on transparent and the shift paint records to realtime. Now draw with the brush the psd file. Set the paint tool to animate all strokes and adjust the playback speed of the filter to the speed you need.
Hope this helps,
Mark
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I would suggest the write on effect, myself. There are several tutorials on this here You would draw over what you need, and set it to “reveal original Image” (I usually do the paths in Illustrator and copy/paste to the position keyframes). Choose the effect for each new stroke you have to add (so there could be a number of instances to make it look right), then to control the time it takes to complete the stroke, grab the keyframes for that instance (all of them), then option/alt drag to make the time scale proportionally.
I think there is a video tutorial, and you’ll get it figured out in a snap.
Good luck!
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Hey All,
Thanks for taking the time to respond, ended up using the vector paint option 🙂 Muchos Grassy Arse!
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