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it's a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it

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I would kind of be unstoppable without the OCD

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GREY'S ANATOMY | 2.17

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hi there, just wanted to say i'm a big fan of your gifs 🫶 all good if you don't want to share but was wondering what settings you used for the writing in this gifset (https://www.tumblr.com/jackabbot/780556502335356928?source=share)? i've been wanting to make a gifset for a different show with the titles in the centre and just can't get it to look good (comes out blurry or weird looking every time sadly). so yeah if you're happy to share, woud really appreciate that!

hiii~

I rarely make turorials, cuz I suck at explaining stuff without using hand gestures, but doing text is either my favourite part of an edit or the bane of my existence, so I will try to do my best to help you out with this one, cuz I know the feeling <3

First, I just make my text layer as per usual. For this one I used The Bold Font font with the settings above and then I changed the blending mode to Exclusion. So now it looks something like this:

The most important thing here to note is the colour of the text. For the blending to do what we want it to do, I find that using this lighter colour region as the base colour works best:

Then for this particular effect you pick the opposite of the colour scheme you're largely using in your edit, unless you specifically want the text to contradict the overall tone. So, in this case, because the edit was mostly made up of cool colours, I used a warm tone as my main text colour.

Then I went into Layer Style (either Layer -> Layer Style or double click on the text layer) and added a Gradient Overlay. Now, you may notice that I used white for both sides of the gradient, which means I could've just as easily used a Color Overlay, but if later on you find that the gif underneath has areas that make the text a little unreadable or messy looking, it can be helpful to adjust the gradient tones, so I like to have the option from the get-go, instead of undoing and redoing my settings.

I used Hard Light for the blending mode on this, but you can play around with some other modes, like Screen or Difference or even Color, to see what pops the most. Then I just lowered the Opacity, so it would keep some of that see through effect while also staying a consistent colour.

The last bit is just some regular old Drop Shadow to separate the edges and make the letters a little clearer.

Ta-da! I hope this was helpful and if you have any more questions feel free to shoot me another ask <3

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🗓 27th Apr 2012: Taylor posted on Instagram.

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some photos i love from the eras tour book 🧡❤💛🤍

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—i bet you think about me, taylor swift

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Taylor Swift, New Year's Day

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when ppl are like "yeah I streamed me! a bunch of times and had the music video on replay but just bc I wanted taylor to get a number one hit"...fake swifties. i did all that bc i was mentally ill

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lets synchronize with mama

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THE ERAS TOUR - Toronto, Canada N6

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Love Story live at The Eras Tour (x)

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was testing something out for an animation project. check out this thing