#vale.tutorial

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!

I basically pick my font, place my text and then I add a gradient overlay, like this (it works with color overlay too)

I duplicate that text layer and then I go back to the first one I made. I select Gradient Overlay again because I need to change the blend mode. You have to change it to Difference

You press Ok and then you select the top text layer and select Gradient Overlay again but this time you will change the blend mode to Color. Now my text looks white and to fix that, what I do is change the blend mode of the layer itself. So it'll look like this

So bottom layer = difference top layer = color

My gif looks like this now

The last detail I do is add a drop shadow to the bottom layer, just so the text is a little bit easier to read

So basically, you are gonna work on video timeline, that's where you will be able to use keyframes. I have my gif resized in timeline (if you want to sharpen, color, you can do that too, I usually do that at the end)

The next thing I did was place my text and the doodles you see in the gif. Once you place that, you will see in timeline that each layer you have in that gif, has different options. I only used the one that says transform

That stopwatch next to "Transform" will help you with the animation. Once you click it, it'll create a keyframe where your cursor is. My first keyframe is right at the start and it looks like this

Now, you have to move the cursor to another point in the timeline, I usually just pick that randomly, unless I want to have something move at a certain speed which is not necessary for this. For example, I placed my cursor right there.

What you have to do now is Free Transform the clock in this case. So you press CTRL + T (command + T if you are on Mac, i think) and you are gonna rotate it. Or you can also change the numbers here

Once you change that, it'll create a new keyframe. I rotated it to -18,64 in this case.

You repeat that process until you are happy with the result! To get the swaying effect, you rotate it to a negative number and in the next keyframe, you will pick a positive number. So, for example, my third keyframe will be at 14°. I adjusted my keyframes a bit and my timeline looks a bit like this

Now for the other one, is even simpler cause you don't need so many keyframes, you just need 2. Again, I have my gif and my text.

Since I want it to go from left to right, I will move my text all the way to the left, outside of my canvas and I will create my first keyframe

And now I will move my cursor to another point in the timeline and I will move my text all the way to the right, again, outside of my canvas, another keyframe will be created.