How to make a nice shine effect in photoshop

[Hades]

First off all you need to create a 400x160 (Your opinion on size)


I am using the background colour of hf wich is: #33. Now use a nice font, a fat font always make the shine effect look better.


Now click on "Window>Animation" And you will have the animation bar like below.



Make a new layer and select the brush tool and find a lighter colour of your choosen colour (Blue for me)


Now move the blue dot to the left side of the text.
When that is done make a new layer on the animation bar.


On the second layer in the animation bar move the blue dot all the way to the right side of the text. And now you should make around 50-60 frames to it by clicking here.
Make sure you select the first layer in the animation bar before you make the frames


Now you need to make the dot "inside" the text, to do that you need to click layer 2 and then hold ALT and click on the text layer.


Thanks for reading and this is my outcome

[AceInfinity]

Looks nice, but pretty obviously copied over from HF lol. Doesn't mean it's bad though, it's a good tutorial for users getting used to clipping masks which are very useful. Instead of a spotlight, you could also make it an angled bar to sweep across the text if you wanted. I think that also looks good for this kind of effect.

[TalishHF]

If anyone is capable of making one of these for me please pm me! You will be rewarded!