Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
video is exported and ready for upload (of course, play it once to make sure everything
came out the way you wanted, and that you can hear the audio track and that it looks right).
How to Create Scrolling Credits
If you want to add movie-style scrolling credits (credits that scroll from bottom to top) to
the end of your video, you can create those right in Photoshop, and it's so amazingly easy.
Takes all of about a minute (not counting how long it takes you to type everybody's name
in, of course).
Step One:
Go to the Layers panel and click on the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the panel.
This adds this new blank layer as a clip to the end of your timeline (how convenient—right
where we'd want it, right?). Fill this layer with black (press
D
, then
Option-Delete [PC:
Alt-Backspace]
). Then, get the Horizontal Type tool
(T)
from the Toolbox and, with you
Foreground color set to white, click onscreen, start typing the first couple letters, and it
adds this transparent Type layer to the end of our timeline (after the empty black-filled lay-
