Can I pretty pls ask you the name of the font you used in the Nick x Charlie “I wonder if he got the g or the b” gifset and how you do the colorful effect inside the font?
hi, yes of course!! the font is called Glamour Brush which you can get here
as for the second question, i am the WORST about saving psds (apparently i saved all the colorings for this set but not the typography 🤦) so i can't tell you with 100% certainty exactly how i did it, but i can tell you how i think i did it based on how i normally get this kind of effect and what i ended up with in trying to recreate it
the rest is under the cut! (the gifset in question)
fyi: i'm using photoshop cc 2019 on windows. also i apologize in advance for my tendency to over-explain
so the basics of what i'm about to explain are an easy way to make pretty much any text look nice. i start by typing out the text in white and setting the blending mode to difference. now if you click on the fx symbol at the bottom of your layer tab group, you'll pull up the style options. what we're interested in here is gradient overlay
the style menu looks like this:
you can see i already have my gradient loaded up there, but if you click on the gradient you can play around with the colors until you settle on something you like. the main thing here is the blending mode. if you leave it on normal it's just going to replace your white text with the gradient, which can look nice but it's not what we're going for. i normally use hard light, linear light, or sometimes color. just play around with it till you find one you like. again, i can't be positive, but i'm like 95% sure i used linear light for this one, so it looks something like this at this stage:
then i also add a drop shadow to make the text pop more (this is done in the same menu we used to apply the gradient, you can see it at the end of the list on the left of that screenshot). you also want to do any distortion/rotation/resizing at this stage cause we'll be using the text to create layer masks in a second.
so this is what i have now:
and i could just leave it here but i don't like how dark the dark parts are, so i'm gonna try and fix that. there's no set way to do this so, as always, just play around with it till you land on something you like.
anyways, first i hold down the ctrl key and click on the T icon on my text layer, which will select the text pixels:
now any adjustment layer i create will be masked to the text (just make sure you drag it under the text layer). i ended up using both brightness/contrast and curves to get a look i was happy with:
remember that since the text blending mode is difference, in order to make it lighter we actually need to make the image underneath it darker, hence these settings ^
and that's basically it! for the final touch i duplicated the text layer, set the fill level to 0 (this is like opacity but does not affect the layer style), and added an outer glow. then i nudged that layer down and to the right a few pixels so it was slightly offset.
and here's the finished product that i made for this tutorial along with the original! not an exact match but i think i got pretty close:
ps: because the lighting on all the gifs in that set is really different, i definitely didn't use the same blending mode for the gradient overlay or the same adjustment layers for each one. just something to keep in mind!
and as always let me know if i need to clarify anything or if anyone has any more questions!!
would you mind making a tutorial of how you made the matthew boyd edit?
ofc i can! it’s literally just coloring adjustment + text but i would be more than happy to show you <3
under the cut!
i used (as always,) canva for this edit! canva is sooo easy to use if you aree a beginner... and i see myself as a beginner still, so yeah lol
for this, i will be showing this panel ^^^^
1) first of all, i always choose the standart canva poster measurement for my edits. its really easy to move on from that. for that, you just have to click on the poster section and it will open you an empty page with that size. (or you can use whatever size you want! its rlly up to ur liking) so it looks like this,
2) and then, you’re gonna choose the picture you want as your starting point from uploads (for uploading, you can just drag the pic you want to the area and it will show up there!) and make sure you fit it into the blank canvas.
3) once its like this,
you have to click on the canvas to make sure the top part (effects, adjust etc) shows up. from that, i chose the adjust option and got it to look like this
[for the other panels, you can just copy the number at the bottom (the filter code) and paste it to them.]
4) once i got the color, i put on a text box (from the text section) and selected the playfair display font and got the font size to 35.5. i made the text bold and got the letter distance to 0.
and placed it just above the margin line and on the middle line.
5) for the smaller text, i also put a lil text box and made it playfair display and also made it bold, but this time made the font size 23,5. i also made it bold but changed some things in the lettering.
and placed it just under the margin line, but also on the middle line.
5.5) if you go to view > show margins, you can see
and that’s it honestly!! hope it helps <3 you can ask me if u have any further questions!!!
