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Text and the way it looks is a major part of any design. A great design can be cheapened if the text on the page looks wrong. Any logo is almost entirely text. From water to fire, these 51 tutorials will show you how to create any style of text you want.
- Aqua Text
Re-create the font style that Mac OSX is famous for.
- 3D Cliff Text
Make text that looks like it’s a part of the land.
- Matrix Style Text
Take the red pill and learn how to create text in the style of The Matrix.
- Brick Text
Create text that looks like it was chipped out of a brick wall.
- Set Your Text On Fire
An advanced tutorial that shows how to create realistic flaming text.
- Explosion Effect
Explode your text with this tutorial.
- Spiderman 3 Style Text
Create text in the style of the Spiderman 3 logo.
- Colorful Light Burst Effect
Create text that looks as if it’s bursting out.
- Web 2.0 Sticker Text Effect
Another Web 2.0 style text effect, but this one looks as if it was a sticker.
- 3D Text
Another tutorial showing how to create 3D text from a different perspective.
- Worn Rubber Stamp Text
Make text look as if were stamped on a page.
- Chalk Text Effect
Text that looks like chalk on asphault.
- Blown Out 3D Text
3D text in the style of 3D films.
- Create A Professional Looking Logo
A tutorial showing how the use of gradients and shadows can create professional looking text.
- Shiny 3D Text
Another 3D tutorial that shows you how to create a reflective logo.
- Reflective Liquid Type
Create text that looks like reflective water.
- Shiny Floor Effect
Make it look like your text is being reflected from a shiny floor.
- Water Text
This tutorial shows you how to create text that looks like water on any background.
- Grungy, Slimey Text
Use this tutorial to make text look as if it emerged from a swamp.
- Chrome Metal Effect
Create a beveled chrome font effect.
- Gold Plated Text
A tutorial showing how to make your text look gold plated.
- Graffiti Text With Photoshop
Create realistic looking graffiti on structures like walls.
- Transparent GLass Lettering
Very shiny and transparent lettering good for many uses.
- Swirl Text
Create a bright swirl using text.
- Highlight and Shadow Effect
Create text with a pixelated, mosaic background.
- Glowing Gel Text
Glowing text that looks like gel.
- 3 Stroked Text
Stylized text that looks layered.
- Icy Cold Effect
Text that looks like ice is creeping up around it.
- Very Stylish 3D Pixel Text
Make pixelated text that looks 3D.
- Chrome Text
Make chrome text that looks like it’s gleaming.
- Rusted Slime Effect
Make your text look like rust is coming down from it.
- Worn and Torn Text Effect
Text that looks worn out and falling apart.
- Dreamy Text Effect
Create text like something out of a dream.
- Schocking Text
A text effect that looks as if bolts of electricity are coming out of it.
- Furry Text
Use brushes to create text in any pattern.
- Realistic Stone Effect
Create text that looks like it was carved out of stone.
- Gutsy Text
Create text that looks like it contains intestines.
- Soft, Plastic Text
Plastic text that looks great on any dark background.
- Turf Text
Blend any style text into turf.
- Diamond Text
Bling out your text with diamonds.
- Molten Lava Blast Effect
Use gradients and layer styles to create molten lava text.
- Mossy Effect
Text that looks as if moss is growing on it.
- Ice Text
Lettering that looks like it’s frozen stiff.
- Plastic Effect
Make your text look like it’s wrapped in shiny plastic.
- Fragmented Tiles Text Effect
Put layered tiles on the inside of your text.
- Zoom Text
Give your text a little zoom blur.
- Pixel Text
Create beveled text without layer styles.
- Image Inside Text
Add an image to the inside of your text.
- Gold And Ruby Text
Make gold text that looks like it contains jewels.
- Girly Bling Text Effect
Sparkling letters in a feminine style.
- Halftone Effect
Surround your text with a halftone style.
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Sway - September 6th, 2007
A great list of tutorials here, thanks!
TitanDeGroot - September 6th, 2007
This is a great website with a lot of photoshop help. Thank you!
Uripides - September 6th, 2007
Awesome! these are classics!
Zakk Forchilli - September 6th, 2007
Amazing. I immediatley posted this on my site.
Dish Chick - September 6th, 2007
Wow now I can do all this stuff by myself, for some reason I thought it was impossible..
Dennis Plucinik - September 6th, 2007
Hey man, nice job with these. Looks like you made out well on Digg too. Good luck with the traffic!
rony john - September 6th, 2007
Outstanding tutorials.
WickedT - September 7th, 2007
Love it!
cenourinha - September 7th, 2007
Great list!
eBooksBay - September 7th, 2007
Very cool tutorials.
Thanks
Dugg.
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focsa - September 7th, 2007
thanx
Ivan Minic - September 7th, 2007
Brilliant collection!
James Seay - September 7th, 2007
Useful info, thanks!
accessko - September 7th, 2007
Hey man, thx for these.
replacement parts - September 7th, 2007
great font list
thanks…
Graffiti Text Effect - September 7th, 2007
Love the list of Text Effect tutorials!
Here’s a good one Graffiti Text Effect tutorial that you should add to your list…
cheers.
hannah - September 7th, 2007
awesome
thanks so much for these
nabin - September 7th, 2007
Nice!
added to delicious!
Drsmith - September 8th, 2007
thank yoy for this collection. it is a good work
Duong Nguyen - September 9th, 2007
Great work!
Planet Malaysia - September 9th, 2007
Awesome. This is the time for me to test it out!
martinsc - September 10th, 2007
amazing!
great tutorials… have bookmarked them.
Mark - September 10th, 2007
I added this one to my favourites! Great stuff..
marcio - September 10th, 2007
fantastic aporte, good work!!!!!
Ta4ka - September 11th, 2007
Cool stuff
Gailen - September 11th, 2007
Nice collection of tutorials! Thanks for putting this list together.
Michiel Schenkius - September 12th, 2007
Thanx a million for making this list (with sample pics!)!
Photoshop Tutorials - September 13th, 2007
Great list, thanks for sharing.
Jenny - September 13th, 2007
WOW
Tim Hollis - September 13th, 2007
Very cool. I saved it to favorites and will return. Thanks.
Shawn - September 15th, 2007
Great list of tutorials. Keep them coming.
Conscious - September 19th, 2007
Pretty awesome…
Juha - September 20th, 2007
Wow - This is a must-have bookmark! Thank you.
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Platinax - September 24th, 2007
Now that is a lovely set of tutorials - been uming and ahing about buying photoshop, but I don’t think I have any choice in the matter now.
Cal Smith - October 3rd, 2007
Great stuff! A wonderful help.
zakaria - October 8th, 2007
salut
Dimych - October 18th, 2007
Great stuff! Very good tutorials introduced here. Thanks for that!
Kelly Martin - October 23rd, 2007
great job, enjoyed reading …
Stephan Miller - October 24th, 2007
Cool, I am always looking for new effects.
Vlad Nicula - November 8th, 2007
Grate-looking result! I am really happy to find some grate stuff like this right now!
Wydblog - November 14th, 2007
nice collection! xD thanks
Thiago Alexandre - December 3rd, 2007
Nice collection!!!
Good work
Matt Ridout - February 21st, 2008
great selection of tips for photoshop, have stumbled!
Pixy - February 29th, 2008
Thanks a lot for this cool collection of tutorials! It is true that every designer should see it. I loved the Furry Text and Plastic Effect:)
Gadget Boy - May 12th, 2008
great work
my favorite must be light burst effect
thanks for sharing your stuff with us
America - May 12th, 2008
Thanks, this is one of the best collections of text effects all in one place !!
paresh - August 3rd, 2008
great typography, thanks for sharing.
kpss cd - August 24th, 2008
thanks
nice collection.
Janan - February 20th, 2009
muahhhhhhhhh Web 2.0 Sticker Text Effect, just was searching for it.