![]() So the easiest way to make text bold and/or italic is to do so using the options on the character panel circled above and keep the font settings as “regular/normal”. Many fonts will only have “normal” listed. Generally speaking, most people have a preference to bold and italicized subtitles mainly because it makes them easier to see and they just look better.Įach font will have different font style options and although most of the ones I use have bold and italic options (Calibri for example has these options) Now is when we change the font-style settings. So now it looks like this:ĭepending on the font and how it looks, I sometimes also adjust the letter spacing option, but decided not to for this tutorial. It’s very easy to rectify this and all you have to do is click on the text box (making sure the text tool is still highlighted from the toolbar) and move small square at the top of the text box down until the text is in the position you like. However, the text is too far up from the bottom of the gif. Note: When changing the settings of the text always make sure you highlight the text on the gif and the text layer in the layers panel.Īs you can see the text is closer together now and I think it looks much better. Personally, I think the spaces between each line is much too big and generally I set my leading to 11pt which means it now looks like this: With three lines of text and the leading set to “auto” my text looks like this: This is an important setting to use when you have multiple lines of text. If you’re unhappy with the position of your text you can change the distance it is from the bottom of the gif by changing the leading settings: Once you’ve typed the text you want, it will appear at the top of the text box, so press return on your keyboard until the text reaches the bottom of the gif. ![]() Make sure you’ve set the alignment to center like so: You want to make sure the text box is exactly the same size as the gif so that the text will be in the center when you type it. Now with the text tool still highlighted you want to drag your mouse starting from the top left corner of your gif until a text box covers the gif and it looks like this:Īs you can see, the dashed lines and small squares around the gif show where the text box is. To understand what each of the settings in the character panel do, hover over them and it’ll tell you what they do. The box should look something like this:Īgain, yours will probably have different settings to mine, but that doesn’t matter. Yours may already be visible but if not go to Window > Character. The other important thing we need when it comes to adding subtitles is the character panel. Yours will likely have different settings because I’ve already changed mine. When text is highlighted the following will appear at the top of the window just below the menu options: If your toolbar isn’t visible go to Window > Tools and it will appear. Some basic info before we get started - I use Photoshop CS5 and the gif I’ll be using in this tutorial was made and coloured by me following the processes laid out in my previous tutorials which you can find here.įirst things first, make sure you select the text option from the toolbar on the left. but I’ll be showing a few options that I believe to look best and that I generally use. ![]() Just like everything, everyone will have their own preferences when it comes to fonts/font style/size etc. So this is a tutorial on how to add basic subtitles to a gif such as this: Which you can see by looking at the first gifset I made ( x). I remember when I first started giffing I struggled to add text to a gif and make it look good. There are so many tutorials out there on the process of making gifs and how to colour them, but there’s so few tutorials on how to add text/subtitles to a gif.
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