December, 2007
In this tutorial we will show you how to rotate your text, in Flash CS3.
Start a new document.
Then, set the frame rate to 28:
Then, select the Text tool and type any text on the stage.
For this example I have typed "www.designertoday.com"
While the text is still selected, right click over your text and select: Break Apart.
After that, choose: Modify/Timeline/Distribute to Layers.
Now you will get this:
After that, take the Selection Tool and click on frame 5 of the first letter and press F6.
In my example that is letter "w". See the image below:
Take the Selection Tool again and click once on the first frame.
Then, go to the Properties Panel and on "Tween" choose Motion, for "Ease" set 0 and for "Rotate" choose CW:
Then, click on frame 3 of the second letter, and press F6.
After that, click on frame 8 and press again the F6 key:
Now, click on frame 8 of the first letter and press the F5 key:
Now you just have to repeat this process for every other letters in the text.
Finally you will have something like this:
Now test your movie, this is the result:
You can!!
Download the original source files from this tutorial in Zip format Here
Copyright (c) 2007, Beatriz Mariniello, All Rights Reserved
