A Quick tip for After Effects where Adam Everett Miller shows how to create a motion trail easily using the old-school ECHO effect in After Effects. Check out the Using Echo In After Effects To Create A Motion Trail tutorial here.

In today’s Quick Tip I’m going to talk about how I created the intro animation for the 10 Tight Tips To Turn Out Terrific Typography series. We’ll look at layer styles first then move into the how to use the Echo plug-in to create a nice fading motion trail for your text.