#oh right the lyrics are from headspace by lewis capaldi

[loustyles]

hi! could you explain how you got the text like that in the two ghosts edit? i treid with text warp and i cant get it to work the same :/ and with multiple lines? thank you sorry to bother!

no problem! I’ve never tried to explain how I do things before so feel free to ask for clarification on anything!! I’m using cc 2019 so things might be slightly different for you depending on your version of ps but it should be pretty similar.(original post anon is talking about here)

the words I’m using are from Headspace by Lewis Capaldi! stream Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent 

I’ll show two ways, broken into 3 parts (3rd part is the wave), 

1st one is multiple lines but same text (only works in cc I think, so just jump to the 2nd way if you don’t have cc!)

and the 2nd one is multiple lines but different text (or same text if you don’t have cc)

and I added in some sparkles because… pretty. I’m a sucker for sparkles but uhh that’s a whole other tutorial I think.

sorry if there’s a lot of stuff you already know, I think some is pretty basic but I figured I’d cover it to be safe! there’s nothing worse than reading a tutorial that feels like it starts halfway through the process. oh also i’m not a photoshop expert so there’s most likely a better way to do this! this is just the way I’ve figured out by trial and error (y’know, ‘click all the buttons and see what works’ style) 

(part 1) multiple lines, same text: 

so once you’ve got the line of text you want, right-click the text layer and select “convert to smart object” (this is a command I use a lot so I’ve set up a shortcut for it!)

double-click on your smart object layer with the text and you’ll be taken to the original text. You’ll want to extend the canvas with the crop tool so you have more room to work and your text won’t get cut off when you save.

I’ve added a layer and filled with my background colour so that we can see my text, but I also find it handy because I can see how the colours I pick work against my background. 

now to get the multiple lines, double-click your text layer to bring up layer styles

you want 2 (or however many lines you want) drop shadows (click the plus to get another). these are the settings I’m using:

I changed the colour and dragged the distance until the second line was sitting nicely under the first line. for the 2nd drop shadow, I kept the settings the same except for changing the colour again and I doubled the distance so the third line is evenly spaced.remember to hide the background colour layer before saving.

okay so now that we’ve got all the lines, ctrl/cmd + S to save the changes to the smart object, and your original document should be updated! (you can jump to part 3 now or read part 2 for different lines of text)

(part 2) multiple lines but different text: 

this time we’re going to do 3 (or however many) layers of text and once you’ve got them how you want side note: if you don’t have cc, this is where you would just create 3 lines of the same text and space them.

select all the text layers and right-click, convert to smart-object

double-click the smart object layer to open, extend canvas with crop tool (as I said earlier, temporarily changing the background colour could be helpful to see, just remember to hide it before you save), and ctrl/cmd + S to update the original document! (i find it helpful to make the adjustments, spacing, colour, position, whatever in the original document before converting to smart object but of course you can make those adjustments anytime in the smart object after.)

(part 3) the wave:

okaaaay onto the fun part lmao and the shortest part, hopefully. so the reason we put everything into a smart object is 1) it’s non-destructive aka we can open it up at any time and edit the text even if we’ve distorted it and 2) it makes sure those different lines of text all change the same!

select the smart object layer, and go to filter -> distort ->  wave

play around with the settings a bit, it’s easy to go too far and end up with unreadable text but your settings might be different to mine, depending on the look you’re going for. these are my settings for both text options:

yay so now you should have some wavey text! 

optional: I find that distorting the text makes it blurry so I like to sharpen it back up a bit with smart sharpen

and you’re done! you can go into that smart object and move your text around and the wave will stay consistent when you go back to the original document. 

thanks if you stuck around this far into a very long explanation 😅 hopefully it was helpful!!