Layering Animated Text on Swish 2.0

By: CivicCX

Objective:  This is a more advanced tutorial which will teach you how to create more appealing effects using Swish v2.0.  Swish limits the effects they install with the software.  This tutorial will teach you how to use there effects to create entire new effects that are more appealing.

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1)  Create a new document on Swish.

2)  Move your cursor to the top of your screen and click the "T" on the toolbar.  This will insert a place where you can enter your text.

3)  Type in whatever text you are going to want to say.  For the purposes of this tutorial we are using "Developing Webs".

4)  Once your text is typed in and your size and font are adjusted click on the text once to make it active.  Then go up to the top of the screen and click edit and move down to copy object.  This will duplicate the object or in this case making it a second layer.

 

5)  Now select one of the texts (You should have two) to make it active.

6)  Now go up to the top of your Swish screen again and click insert, and scroll over to effect, and choose Transform.

7)  Now select the other text which you did not select before.  Go once again to the top of your Swish screen and click Insert and scroll down to effect and over to Fade Out.

8)  At this point you should have to of the same texts, with a different effect for both of them.  You can view there effects by looking on the movie timeline above your workspace.  Once you have this timeline active make the effects look similar to the ones show here.

9)  Now after your timeline looks like the one shown here, you can view your effect by clicking your play button.

A simple finished product of combining Swish Text effects is show below: