From the course: Telling Your Story on the Web in 60 Seconds
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Animating your Spark post
From the course: Telling Your Story on the Web in 60 Seconds
Animating your Spark post
- The use of a well-coordinated graphic is certainly going to help you stand out from text-only posts on social media. But these days, motion helps you cut through the clutter of too many photos, and Spark makes it really easy to add some simple animation to your social media post. Once you've got a post built using Spark Post, just locate the animation button. And what you'll see here are a few different methods that you can apply, text animation or photo animation. Now, these are marked currently as betas on the desktop, and there are slightly different options available if you are using the mobile app. But all in all, it's a very stable and useful feature. If I choose Photo Animation, we can add subtle movement to the background image. And you'll see depending upon what you choose, you could flip, so zooming out or zooming in. We could add simple motion as it pans across from right to left or left to right. Again, just…
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