here's the setup. it's a mostly black background (pictures). i'm trying to put a word of text on top of it with a gradient from red to blue running from left to right.
what i've tried has ended up in two ways:
a. the text has the gradient, but for each individual letter, instead of over the course of the entire word.
b. i've made a box with the gradient on a separate layer, and used a text overlay, except can't get just the text to appear on the black background. hiding the gradient portion renders the text invisible. and placing everything in front gives me a large, ugly gradient box on top (with the text on top of that,) which i obviously don't want that stinkin box.
i've tried checking the help files, but it just loads a completely blank IE page.
any ideas? i know there must be a way to introduce the gradient across the entire word, and not each individual letter, but i just can't figure out how, without having option b happening.