Simple shapes—circles, squares, ellipses, and more—can be valuable building blocks in an animation. A rectangle shape can be a basic background for a lower-third title, or it can be the base of a complex, three-dimensional clone animation. In this movie, Ian Robinson introduces the fundamentals of building, transforming, and animating basic shapes.

Industry veterans Karl Soulé and Kevin Monahan show Final Cut Pro users the flexibility and robustness built into the Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Title Tool. Final Cut Pro users will learn how easy it is to create titles and reusable templates.

In Part 4 of this multi-part training series, Adobe Worldwide Evangelist Jason Levine discusses working with layered Photoshop (PSD) files for lower thirds, stylized text and simple animations, as well as using Premiere Pro's own Titler from within the application.

In this episode of Short and Suite, Jason Levine teaches us how to animate Lower Thirds in Adobe Photoshop and then use that PSD in Premiere Pro and After Effects CS4.

Instructor Richard Harrington goes further into how to make lower thirds in Photoshop. Brought to you by Creative Cow.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to make custom lower thirds in Photoshop. Part 3 of 3.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to make custom lower thirds in Photoshop. Part 1 of 3.

Watch Premiere Pro 3.2 and Sony's XDCAM EX editing in action. Check out cross-platform editing and learn how to use Photoshop for making quick lower thirds from frames of HD video.