Gradient issue with text in photoshop

[pseudodigm]

Here's something I'm curious about. I'm almost embarassed to ask because it's probably one of those "uh...you just click the "duh" button, moron" situations, but I'll risk it.

So...I have a layer style that includes a pretty gold gradient. But if the text goes onto a second line the gradient...how do I say this...it...stretches vertically to encompass both lines.

For instance say that I have one line: "hi everybody". The gradent goes from dark blue, to white, back to dark blue (vertically). Awesome. But now I want to have it say:

"hi everybody" [line break]
"my name is rick"

But now the top half of the first line is dark blue, then it fades to white, the top of the second line is white and fades to dark blue at the bottom. I want each line to maintain the original gradient.

I solve this by simply having two different text layers. But it would sure be nice to find a magic check box that fixes the goofiness.

Any ideas? Am I being really unclear? (I feel that I am).

[balou]

I've never done this in Photoshop but in Illustrator, you need to change text to outline, select all of the outlined text, then apply the gradient for it to flow across like a mask. Can you outline text in Photoshop? I tend not to work with text in Photoshop.

[Typically]

hi everybody my name is rick text on one line
apply gradient to the text
then put my name is rick underneath it

that's the way i would do but i think that's probably the same way you did it as well

[pseudodigm]

hi everybody my name is rick text on one line
apply gradient to the text
then put my name is rick underneath it

that's the way i would do but i think that's probably the same way you did it as well

Yeah, it's how I did it. Which is OK, but not ideal when I want to set up a template that sometimes wraps and sometimes doesn't. No big whoop.

I should have mentioned, I want to retain the ability to edit the text.

[Kevined]

I use photoshop elements, so I'm not sure if this will work the same. Create a gradient later and a seperate text layer. After that you can just group the text and the gradient layer to create a mask.

[Danger_Mouse]

^ is how I would do it too.

[longboy]

x3 on the 2 or more layers, grouped. You can also apply any/all effects to the above layers and leave your text as editable text.

[pseudodigm]

That's kind of cool, but it still has the original issue, right?

Hehe, I don't know why I try explaining things with words, I'm so bad at trying to convey thoughts that way.

http://www.pseudodigm.com/gradient.jpg

[longboy]

Just have a separate layer with the gradient for each line of text. Easy enough to turn that layer off if not needed. ...and you can group both (or more gradients/effects layers) to the underlying text layer. I've had occasions where I've had 10 or more layers clipped to one layer.

[pseudodigm]

Just have a separate layer with the gradient for each line of text. Easy enough to turn that layer off if not needed. ...and you can group both (or more gradients/effects layers) to the underlying text layer. I've had occasions where I've had 10 or more layers clipped to one layer.

OOooooohhhhhhh. Brilliant, thank you!

Rick