Cool Text plug-in

Cool Text lets you animate text on a letter-by-letter basis. You can animate Scale, Opacity, Blur, Color and Rotation. This creates text effects that would be extremely difficult otherwise. Usually you would need to break text up into individual layers to achieve many of these animations.

You create effects by entering text and adjusting the parameters like Font Size or Kerning. Then select and set up one or more Effect groups. Effects can be combined together or you can have multiple instances of the same effect, which allows for all sorts of combinations and complex effects.

Cool Text sets an effect in motion that spans the text much like a wave or ripple. By combining several Effects, like Color and Blur, and changing their Positions in tandem, you can create a moving element within words or lines of text. Fun stuff.

 

Cool Text plug-in.

 

 

Options Dialog

This is where you enter your text. With Cool Text, there’s no way to generate random text (as with other Text Anarchy text plug-ins), so you NEED to enter something in here for the plug-in to work. The five Font pop-ups and Sequential Fonts checkbox change the font of your text.

See Common controls, Options Box

 

 

Smooth Effects checkbox

Helps with the anti-aliasing of your Cool Text Effect.

 

 

Effect groups

Go to the Cool Text> Effect groups page.

 

 

Path Controls> Preset Path pop-up
Path Controls> Path Size
Path Controls> Path pop-up
Path Controls> Start/End Point
Path Controls> Characters Perpendicular checkbox
Path Controls> Reverse Direction checkbox

See Common controls, Path Controls

 

 

 

Main Setup> Text Position
Main Setup> Font Size, Font Size Randomness
Main Setup> Font Size Rate of Change, ROC Randomness
Main Setup> Font Size Groups pop-up
Main Setup> Font Rate of Change

See Common controls, Font & Character

 

 

Main Setup> Vertical Writing
Main Setup> Color
Main Setup> Alt Color, Alt Color Tolerance
Main Setup> Alt Color ROC, Alt Color ROC Randomness
Main Setup> Character Rotation, Rotation Randomness
Main Setup> Randomness Seed

See Common controls, Color & Rotation

 

 

 

Spacing> Tracking
Spacing> Exponential Tracking
Spacing> ET Position Point
Spacing> Leading
Spacing> Alignment pop-up
Spacing> Length of Lines, Length of Lines Set By
Spacing> Baseline Shift, Baseline Shift Randomness
Spacing> BS Rate of Change, BS ROC Randomness

See Common controls, Spacing

 

 

 

Kerning group> Show Kerning Pair
Kerning group> Kerning Pair
Kerning group> Kerning Amount

See Common controls, Kerning