moving text?

I'm trying to give a word a smudge or some lines on on the left of it to make it seem like it's moving(but it's really not) I have no clue where to begin can anyone help me out?

-peace

Try going to the menu (Filter->Blur->Motion Blur) and playing around with that.

Are you trying to give it a normal to smudge look ? If so copy your txt as a new document hit ctrl+shift+e then make your texy smudge then you should goto adobe imageready and mess wit the configs have fun doodling

[QUOTE=Galaphile]Try going to the menu (Filter->Blur->Motion Blur) and playing around with that.[/QUOTE]

I went ahead and tried playing around with it but it seems like it's just making the color lighter and pulls the stroke color onto the word more, which isn't want I need it to do. I'm stuck... any help would be greatly appreciated thanks :-)

-peace

How about this?

are you sure your transparent pixels aren't locked ?

[QUOTE=mlk]are you sure your transparent pixels aren't locked ?[/QUOTE]

Where do I go to check to see if my transparent pixels aren't locked?

-peace

With your layer selected, go to the layers palette. Underneath the blending mode combobox, you should see 'Lock:' The transparent pixel lock is the icon right next to the work 'Lock:' (the square with grey/white checkers)