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  • How to give text a cut in half effect?

    Posted by Adam Cooke on January 12, 2015 at 11:50 pm

    The answer is probably obvious but i dont see it, how do I make text look like its cut in half?
    I have a knife coming from right to left and I want the text that touches it to be sliced in half.

    Adam Cooke replied 11 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Fahd Chishty

    January 13, 2015 at 5:15 am

    A simple way to achieve this would be to
    i. recompose your text
    ii. apply a rectangular mask on half of that layer (with one side of the rectangle being exactly on the line where your knife will move)
    iii. duplicate the layer and invert its mask
    iv. Move the layers up and down as you want 🙂

    Hope that helps

  • Fahd Chishty

    January 13, 2015 at 5:17 am

    A simple way to achieve this would be to
    i. recompose your text
    ii. apply a rectangular mask on half of that layer (with one side of the rectangle being exactly on the line where your knife will move)
    iii. duplicate the layer and invert its mask
    iv. Move the layers up and down as you want 🙂

    Hope that helps

    “I barely know what I know. How can I then know what I do not know?” –Rumi

  • Adam Cooke

    January 13, 2015 at 10:24 pm

    Thanks! Worked great

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