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Summary: Creating a text clicking mask, in Photoshop, is a nice way to finish your animated fire design. Learn to create a text mask from a Photoshop expert in this free computer software video.
Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more
"Now let us go ahead and create a text clicking mask over this. So as we see here we have got our fire set up our background already animated. Let’s go into our text tool here and we are just going to create a new layer to begin with right here let us go ahead and type this and type in fire. There we go. Let us type that in again. There we go, now let us go to our pick tool our move tool and we will just take this up all the way. Now this is going to be a really simple air mass. I am not going to do a while lot here, I am just going to go ahead and select this like so and just hit enter. Hold down our command option key, click on it like so and create a new layer. There we go, hit shift command inverse. Then I am just going to fill it in with the background color white. Then I am just going to reach up here and grab my text layer and get rid of it. There we go command d to de-select it and hit play. And there you go the word fire with a little fire animation behind it. And of course you can beef this up a little bit or do whatever you want to so play around with it have fun and enjoy."
eHow Article: Photoshop: Text Mask
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