If you’re a Twitch user, you know that making your own emotes is a great way to show your support for the channel and its viewers. But if you’re not familiar with Photoshop, there’s a good chance that you can’t make them yourself. That’s where we come in! In this article, we’ll show you how to make Twitch emotes in Photoshop using our easy-to-follow steps. First, open up Photoshop and create a new document. We’ll be using the default font and color for our emotes, so make sure they look like this: Next, we’ll need to add some basic shapes to our emotes. We’ll use rectangles and circles for our main body shape and text faces (if we want to use text faces on every emote), respectively: Next, we’ll need to add some basic colors to our emotes. We’ll use the same colors as the main body of our emotes (black for the body, white for the text faces), so all we need to do is select them and click on OK: Now that everything looks like it should, it’s time to start making our messages! To start off, let’s create a new message field in Photoshop and name it “Text Face”. We’ll use black as our color here: Next, let’s create some basic textface properties. We’ll set the font size and typeface properties like this: :) And finally, let’s add some basic borders around our textfaces: :) Now that everything looks nice and tidy in Photoshop, it’s time to export everything! Just select all of your files (except for the .eps file which will be used later), click on Export as an image (.png or .jpg), and hit save:
