#text effect tutorial

*assuming whoever is reading this already knows how to make a gif in photoshop*

I'm pretty sure I used the font Elephant for this set that you linked.

tl;dr if you have a lot of photoshop/text editing knowledge already: create a layer of text > duplicate it > select the bottom layer > go to blending options > add a stroke > ok that > set the layer fill to 0% > reposition the layer a couple of nudges to one side and a couple of nudges down > select the top text layer > go to blending options > add a drop shadow > add a gradient > ok that > set the top layer to difference > enjoy <3

if you want a more in depth tutorial with screenshots:

add your text to your gif with whichever font, size and placement you like

make sure the first text layer you want to edit is selected and press ctrl+J to create a copy of the layer (or right click > duplicate layer... > ok)

select the first text layer again

double click the layer (or right click > blending options), tick the stroke box and use these settings:

press ok

change the fill to 0% (leave the opacity at 100% because you still want the layer itself with the stroke/outline to be opaque but you want the text colour/filled in part of the layer to be transparent)

make sure the 'move' tool is selected

use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the text layer with the stroke (i did 3 to the left and 3 down but do whatever works with your chosen font and size (edit: i think i moved it a few nudges right for the original set rather than left just make it up as you go along with me jfngkf)). it should look like this:

select the duplicated layer you made above the first one

double click the layer (or right click > blending options) and tick the box for drop shadow. I pretty much always use these settings:

then tick the box to add a gradient overlay, it doesn't matter which colours or angle you use, you can play around and adjust it to whatever makes sense with your gif, so if you think the gradient would look better horizontal or vertical or at a different angle, just change the number of degrees it's at until you like it.

click the coloured box next to the option that says 'Gradient:' and this box should pop up:

to change the colours click the little coloured box under the gradient bar you want to change then the box underneath called 'Color:' should light up for you to click on, then either pick a colour or paste in the hex code

for the colours in the set you linked i used #9fb552 for the lighter green and #2f4f2b for the darker green then press ok

if you want to adjust the colour fade, you can drag the coloured squares along the bar or click somewhere just under the gradient bar to add another colour (you could add a third colour or another shade of the same colour, play around until you like how it looks! you can always go back into it at the end and keep adjusting once you can see how the whole thing looks put together.)

ok everything when you have it how you want it, then your text should look like this:

now change the blending on that same layer to 'difference'

the text should now look like this:

*note, the colours may change when they're blended differently, so like i said earlier you can go back and play around with the colours or shade you picked until they match your gif

if you have another text layer you want to look the same rather than repeating all of the steps, duplicate that one too, use the move tool to reposition the lower layer again and right click > copy layer style > right click > paste layer style on the corresponding layers

now when you play your gif, the text should look like this:

I made this ocean’s eight set a couple of days ago and people seemed to like it so here goes a tutorial on how to do this text effect

1- Pick a font, for this tutorial I’ll be using Lemon Milk bolded

2- Click the Polygonal Lasso Tool

and select half of your text, it can be horizontally or vertically, like this:

Once you are done, half of the text should be selected

3- Add a layer mask to your text

and it’ll look something like this:

4- Duplicate the text layer (ctrl + J for PC or command + J for Mac) and select your first text layer again, you will invert it (ctrl + i for PC or command + J for Mac). You will have something like this now 

5- Now, you select the top text layer and move it to your liking

6- For the shadow, you will have to do a clipping mask. To do that, create a new layer between the text layers

To do a clipping mask you can either go to Layer > Create Clipping Mask or you can place your cursor between the empty layer and the text layer, holding Alt on PC or Option on Mac and click. It’ll look like this 

7- With a black soft brush, you will paint over this empty layer to create the shadow. The amount of shadow depends on the person really, I like to lower the opacity a bit if it ends up looking to dark

And that’s it for the text effect! It’s pretty simple.

Now, if you want to do the animation:

It’s pretty straight forward, you are gonna be using timeline and keyframes

1- Move the top layer to match the bottom text, like this:

2- Make sure your cursor is at the very start for this

You have to click the arrow in the top text layer and you will see all of these options

We are gonna focus on Transform and Layer Mask Position. Click the clock next to those and you will see 2 yellow diamonds appear at the start of your timeline.

3- What you are gonna do now is move the cursor to the left, just place it wherever you want. And then you are gonna move the top layer just like you did in Step 5 of the other part of the tutorial. When you do that you will see 2 more yellow diamonds showing up in your timeline.

You will have something like this as a result:

But that doesn’t look great, does it? So we are gonna have to move the shadow too

4- With your cursor at the start of the timeline, you are gonna open the shadow menu and click the Position clock.

5- Drag that yellow diamond to match the second set of keyframes on the top layer, like this:

6- Move the cursor to the start again and drag the shadow layer up until you don’t see it anymore. That will create a new Keyframe at the start you will have something that looks like this now:

You can always move the shadow a bit more to the left so it starts showing earlier or move other keyframes if you want it to move faster, that’s up to you. I decided to give mine a darker shadow, move the keyframes a little, a gradient layer and added drop shadow to both text layers so my final result looks like this:

For the banner text, I decided to remove the shadow because it wouldn’t make sense for the text to do a shadow if it was moving down.

And that’s about it! I hope you all find this helpful and if you make any edits with this, you can tag #uservaleria cause I would love to see them!