[photoshop-beginners] Birthday card made with CS6 video

I messed around with a birthday card using the video function of CS6.  Took several hours to do.  I made each of the letters using the text tool and had them on separate layers. All layers were made invisible  I made the yellow pennant and activated the first letter layer (H)  and merged them.  I then made of copy of this new layer, made the layer that was copied invisible,  made the next letter layer visible ( A) and merged it with the visible (H) layer, I now have two layers, one with H and one with HA. Kept doing this until I had layers that spelled out Happy Birthday, one letter at a time.  Made the blue background layer and then added them to the timeline in CS6 (Window/timeline).  Added the music and then rendered the video.

 

you can view the finished project (?) at

www.joetansey.com/Birthday

 

When I want to use it for a particular person, I will open the saved psd file in Photoshop and replace BIRTHDAY PERSON with the real name.

PS:  I must have used 40 or so layers to get the final set of layers.

Layers to make the video

1 blank

2 H

3 HA

4 HAP

5 HAPP

6 HAPPY

7 HAPPY B

8 HAPPY BI

9 HAPPY BIRT

10 HAPPY BIRTH

11 HAPPY BIRTHD

12 HAPPY BIRTHDA

13 HAPPY BIRTHDAY

14  Audio

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