It also repositions the anchor point to the center of the comp. Now if you lose the position of your text because it is outside of the composition, you can bring it back in by simply pressing Control - Home which will reposition your layer to the center. So even if you scale it up the edge will always be super sharp. No matter how big you scale your text it will not lose quality as the text is a vector layer. Let's look at this example where instead of adjusting the size via the font size, you can take the Selection Tool and adjust the size by simply clicking and dragging one of the points.Īnd then you can reposition the anchor point whilst snapping it to the center by holding Control on the keyboard. You can't do that by adjusting the scale. This time if you were to add some text, your text will now live inside of this textbox and you'll have to adjust the font size to get it to fill properly.
Activate the type tool again and draw a textbox.
Now let's look at another example of how to use text in After Effects. To help with this, you can just move the anchor point manually and that works fine, most of the time. Sometimes that can be annoying if you are modifying your text, when you change where the anchor point is or the alignment here, after you've created it, your text will move around. It shows that the text will move if you change that after it's created, but that the anchor point won't move.
In this example it was first left-aligned. And the anchor point is set by default on text layers based on the settings in the Paragraph Panel. Now when you change the font size of the text you'll notice that it is being scaled from the anchor point. In the Character Panel, you can change the font, you can change the font style, or you can change the fill color for your text. Once you've entered your text, you can modify it in a number of ways, very similar to other design programs. So to finish using the text tool, either press Enter on the number pad or you can just click away from that layer, or you can switch back to the Selection Tool. When you're done entering the text, press Enter on the number pad and it will exit out of that text entry mode.Ī common mistake is to press Enter on the main part of the keyboard, however this will simply add a new line for your text. How to Use the Horizontal Type Toolįrom there, select the Horizontal Type Tool, or what is commonly referred to as the text tool, and click inside the composition to add some text. You can do the same thing from the layer menu up here and go to Layer > New > Text (Control - Alt - Shift - T). Just like so many other things in your timeline, you can right click choose New > Text and an empty text layer will be added. After Effects for Beginners | FREE Mega Course
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