Creating Shade Effect Template By : Lior Paz In order to create a shade to any text or image, you will need to duplicate the layer, change the new layer to a dark color (black), and move the layer to any way you would like the shade to appear. For example, if you imagine the source of light to be on the left and above the letters, you can move the layer 2 pixels to the right, and two downwards. As the difference between the original text location and the shade location grows, the text seems to get out more out of the page.