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624Motion User Guide
Text Face controls in Motion
Use the Face controls to specify whether text is a solid color, a color gradient, or a texture.
The Face controls are not available for 3D text.
Note: You can distort the Face parameters of text independently of other Appearance
parameters. See Distort a glyph in the canvas in Motion.
• Preset: An unlabeled pop-up menu at the top of the Appearance pane (above the
3D Text controls) to save the format, style, or format and style of the text to the
Library, or to apply a preset text style from the Library to the text. The default menu
item is Normal.
For more information on applying and saving text styles, see Use preset text styles
in Motion.
• Face: An activation checkbox to enable or disable all Face parameters (Fill, Color,
Opacity, Blur, and Four Corner). This checkbox is selected by default.
• Fill with: A pop-up menu to set text fill to Color, Gradient, or Texture.
• Color/Gradient/Texture: Color controls to set the text fill color, gradient, or texture.
These controls vary depending on the “Fill with” setting (described above). Click the
disclosure triangle to reveal additional controls. For more information about the color
and gradient controls, see Modify text color in Motion.
When the “Fill with” pop-up menu is set to Texture, the following controls become
available:
• Image: An image well to set a texture source (an image, movie clip, or other object).
See Add an image texture to text in Motion.
• Frame: A slider (available when the Image well contains a movie or image sequence)
to specify a start frame for the texture.