As many must already know about the Canadian company Corel, it is also the creator of programs such as Animation Shop and CorelDraw. Now they bring us this versatile application known as Corel Photo-Paint, with which you can make a large number of graphic effects.
Next, we will present an article that will try to show you in simple steps how to make an animated GIF of moving glitter text using Corel Photo-Paint.
For many users, it may seem a novelty to include an animated text Gif through this program and this will show them everything that can be done with it. In a previous installment, we were able to learn how to create an animated Gif with images in a very easy way.
How to make an animated Gif of moving glitter text using Corel Photo-Paint
It is very interesting what this Gif will do, it will move in a way that illuminates each part or letter of the text, offering a very nice effect. The first happens to be able to make an animated Gif of moving glitter text using Corel Photo-Paint. It will create a movie with frames that will have a background color or image of our preference.
You can download this image on the internet and save it on your PC, then we make a clip in the Open option, select the file and click OK. Then we go to the movie toolbar and click the Create movie button. This way, this image will be turned into a movie.
After this is done, you go to the insert frame option from the movie docker. And we are going to insert as many frames as there are letters in our text, this means that if we have 4 letters we must have 4 frames. Once this is done we will place ourselves in the first frame in the docker and double clip.
Then we go to our object manager and we will write the text, for this, we go to the text tool. We format the text in the way we want, choose the font, style, size or create an illusion. Once this step is finished, we will convert it into an object. We select it and right-click and choose the option Represent as object.
Now we will add color to our text, for this, we go to the block transparency button, then we select the interactive fill tool and place the color. We click on the Apply option and remove the transparency lock. With this layer selected we go to the Effect tab, texture and then Plastic.
Animated text gif
In the box that will show us, we apply the settings of our preference and then click OK. We will now go on to create a new layer, then we position ourselves on the layer that contains the text, right-click and select the option Create mask from object. Now we go to the blank layer and select the white color as the foreground.
Now we go on to choose the Paint tool in the side panel, we select a round brush and we stand on the text. Right-click, select Brushstroke from mask and then select the Out of mask option. A white border will be created all over the outline of the letters and then we remove the mask,
To this edge we will apply the plastic effect, then in fact, we will apply a shadow with Gaussian blur to the layer that contains the edge. And now we will put the border layer below the text layer. Now we duplicate the layer that contains the text, in this duplicated layer we will select the Rectangular Mask tool.
We select that we only have the first letter left, then we make a clip in invert and in the layer we make a right clip and select the option Crop by mask. Then we create a mask over the letter and with Interactive Fill and Gradient Fill. Then we click on Edit fill, one of the ends will have 100% opacity.
Now we press Ctrl and select with the cursor where the gradient should arrive and then we make a clip-on Apply and remove the mask. Now we select the shadow and text layers we copy it, then right clip, combine and combine all the objects with the background. And now we do the same operation with all the frames.