Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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The TEXT TOOL in Adobe Animate
In this Adobe Animate CC Tutorial I will show 20+ Text Animation Effects using the Text Tool, including how to add and animate outlines, gradients, bitmap fill, text morphing, scaling, rotation, stretch, skew, flip, adjust color, brightness, fade in and fade out, drop shadow filter, blur filter, glow filter, bevel filter, and more!

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0:00 Start
0:33 The Basics
3:04 Break Apart Text
4:00 Distribute to Layers
4:33 Manipulating Text
6:26 Outline Text
7:00 Text Gradient Transform Tool
9:07 Bitmap Fill Text with Image
10:07 Animating Text with Classic Tweens
13:23 Animating Text with Motion Tweens
16:24 Animating Text with Shape Tweens
19:10 Transforming Text
21:57 Color Effects
23:42 Adding Filters
25:15 Drop Shadow Filter
26:20 Blur Filter
26:48 Glow Filter
27:25 Bevel Filter
28:20 Gradient Glow Filter
29:11 Gradient Bevel Filter
29:42 Adjust Color Filter
30:18 Adding Multiple Effects