Attention GIF-Makers! Need help urgently!

[Snowdrop]

Read the rulebook and saw nothing against asking questions, so here I go...

I use Photoshop Elements 8.0. What I really need to know is how to add text to GIFs and have them in the same spot throughout the GIF's animation, like you see all over tumblr:

Yeah. I watched a bunch of sucky tutorials. So I did see one tutorial that basically said you need to apply the text OVER AND OVER AGAIN to EVERY LAYER but the problem is, the person who made that tutorial makes GIFs with no more than 5 layers. Mine have 25+. I've seen it done much, much faster in other tutorials but they were using CS and I cannot get it to work the way they showed. They went too fast and failed to explain correctly, either that or what they're doing isn't possible in Elements.

So can anyone please help me? If you're going to explain it to me by typing, be EXTREMELY specific. I'm very slow with this kind of stuff D: Thanks for reading, I hope to be makin' great GIFs soon!

 

[Nick]

Each frame in a gif is just another layer being shown. Add a layer to the top that is visible at all times in all frames with the text you want and make sure that layer is visible in each frame.

 

[Snowdrop]

Thank you for replying, Patch! See, now that's what all the tutorials told me and it won't work! And I wish it would because that's so perfectly simple! I go and make my text layer, make sure the text layer is at the top of all the layers (meaning from layers 1-29, it is above Layer 29.) Now then, when I go to view the GIF, the GIF plays the layers all without text and the last layer flashes at the end in a transparent layer. I'll try to explain clearer since I'm not very articulate: when I do what you say and view the gif, I see the lion moving for 29 frames with no text whatsoever and then on frame 30, the text layer, there is no more lion, just transparency and the text flashes for one frame...

 

[droomph]

I can't say how because I don't have photoshop, but there's certain online tools that you can use, for example this one.

I don't know if there are any fonts that don't have a "teenage girl" feeling to it, but it's what I can find. If I find anything else, I'll be sure to update :)

UPDATE: um, I found one that's less "noobish" (ie clearly has standard fonts) but I don't know if this is what you're looking for :p

https://www.online-image-editor.com

I'll be honest, this isn't probably the stuff you want to go through every time you want to add text, but it's what I do :\

 

[Snowdrop]

Thank you, droomph! This will make a perfect temporary solution, but eventually I do have to learn to do this with PS. I can't believe this kind of free software makes it THIS easy, while expensive-ass ****ing Photoshop is the most complicated software I've ever used/whiny

Alright, so I learned to do it via Photoshop and I used three frames to make it easy for myself and... voila. For GIFs that have many frames, this is going to be tedious but I can handle it. To those who are wondering the same thing I am (because I see a lot of guests lurking around here haha):

Make your text layer and put it at the top of all the other layers. Fix it up all nice and fancy, however you want it. Then, select the text layer and Control + J (DON'T HIT PLUS LOL hit control and J at the same time) to create a new copy of it as a new layer. Now then, make as many copies as you need. Then, take those copies and put them above all the frames by dragging them. Eventually, they'll all be in place and your text will stay put while your frames move.

HUZZAH! Thanks to everyone who helped... all two of you, ha ha!