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This is a two part tutorial. First we’ll make some alien looking text in photoshop then in part 2 we’ll import it into After Effects and apply an expression to make it look similar to jello when it drops. If your not interested in making the text effect, just move on to part 2 (see the end of part 2 for the final).

Part one – the text effect:

Open a new document in photoshop with a size of 720×480 and make the background black.  Type in your text and make it white for now. Name the new text layer “alien text” in the layers palette, .

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Import the alien.psd we made in part 1 into After Effects as a composition.  Double click on the alien comp and it will open up a new timeline with all of the Photoshop layers visible.

Go to Composition>Composition Settings and make the duration of the comp 5 seconds. In the timeline select the two text layers and hit A on your keyboard to expose the anchor property. Adjust the values so the anchor point is at the bottom of the text, then you’ll have to re-position the text back to the middle and move it just below center. To prevent the text layer from jiggling all the way down, we’ll split the layer in two and add the expression at the split (time of impact when the text drops).  Move the timeline indicator to 0;00;00;08 , Lock Layer 1 and select the two text layers then to go edit>split layer.

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In this tutorial, we’ll make a cool chrome text effect in Photoshop then import the .psd into After Effects as a composition and customize the built-in Shatter effect to make the text appear as if its crumbling apart. A very cool effect that can be used on pictures and video as well.

Here’s the final:

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