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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Orientation
- About Motion
- Getting Started
- The Motion Interface
- The Utility Window
- The File Browser
- Dynamic Guides
- Importing Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator Files
- The Canvas
- The Toolbar
- Current Frame and Project Duration Fields
- The Transport Controls
- The Mini-Timeline
- The Library
- Motion Dashboards
- The Inspector
- Parameter Basics
- Using the Animation Menu vs. Using the Record Button
- The Project Pane
- The Playground
- Your No. 2 Pencil
- Using the Timeline
- Using Keyframes in Motion
- Keyframe Basics
- Creating Keyframes in the Canvas
- Using Animation Paths
- Keyframe Interpolation Basics
- Using the Keyframe Editor
- Checking Your Selection
- Recording Keyframes During Playback
- Keyframing Objects With Applied Behaviors
- Keyframing in the Dashboard
- Keyframing in the Inspector
- Keyframing Filters
- Converting Behaviors to Keyframes
- Arts and Letters
- Extra Credit
Chapter 4 Arts and Letters 129
To save a custom gradient to the Library:
1 Click the Gradient Library pop-up menu, then choose Save Gradient.
2 In the Save Preset To Library dialog, type the preset name, then click Save.
The preset is added to the Gradients category in the Library. The next time you apply a
preset gradient from the Gradient Library, the new gradient appears in the preset list.
Applying Text Behaviors
Behaviors and filters are applied to text objects in the same manner as other objects in
Motion. This section provides a quick start to applying behaviors and filters to text
objects.
Gradient
Library pop-up
menu
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