30 Beautiful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

September 9th, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 174 Comments | Stumble It! Delicious

There are thousands of Photoshop tutorials out there, but few that are top-notch in terms of instructions, presentation – and of course – outcome. In this post, you’ll find 30 beautiful, high-quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials from top tutorial sites and designers like PSDTUTS, PSHERO, and Abduzeedo.

1. Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect

Use the Pen Tool and a lot of patience to create this excellent grass effect.

2. Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

This beginner-level tutorial allows you to create text that glows.

3. Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

Learn about the concepts behind lighting and shading to make your text stand out.

4. Transparent Glass Lettering

This is PSDTUT’s rendition of the popular glass text effect.

5. How To Create A Gold Text Effect

A classic text effect that rarely turns out classy (instead of gaudy and cheesy).

6. Icey Styles

Uses some basic Layer Styles like Bevel and Emboss to create a cold text effect.

7. Dramatic Text on Fire Effect

Set your text on fire with the Smudge Tool and some layer masking.

8. Wood Inlay Text

Using wood textures and some layer masks, you can create this "wooden inlay" effect.

9. Watercolor Text

Learn about the Brushes Palette to achieve a water-color painting effect.

10. The Sugar Bag Effect

Find out how to create this "Sugar Bag" effect using basic Layer Styles and selections.

11. Text In Stitches

This tutorial shows you how to create an stiched effect using a custom brush set.

12. Text Ticker

Mimic the text that you commonly see in "news tickers".

13. Cartoon/Comic-Style Text Effect

This is PhotoshopStar’s rendition of this popular pop-culture text effect.

14. ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect

Use a load of Layer Styles to create this text effect seen in the film "Bee Movie".

15. Simple, Sleek and Stylish Text Effect

Create a quick and sleek "Web 2.0" feel with this easy Photoshop tutorial.

16. Smooth Glass Type

Learn how to create a translucent text effect.

17. Moon Shine Text Effect

Quickly create this "dreamy" text effect using some basic Layer Styles.

18. Colorful Glowing Text Effect

Create this layered, glowing effect by separating the text in individual layers and a white to transparent gradient layer to get this cool, colorful glowing text effect.

19. Bubble Text

This is another quick tutorial on how to make this text effect using layer styles.

20. Killer Halftone Effect

This tutorial shows a way to apply the halftone effect to the background of your text.

21. Text on Turf

This tutorial uses the Noise Filter to create the grass-like texture.

22. Spray Paint Text

Create your own digital grafitti by following this excellent tutorial from PSD Learning.

23. Scanline Text

This is PSD Learning’s beautiful take on the relatively "old-school" scan line technique.

24. Retro Text

This tutorial uses both Photoshop and Illustrator to create a retro look.

25. Grunge Text Effect

This tutorial from psdfan shows you how you can apply this popular effect on text.

26. Pimp your text

Can’t afford real bling-bling? Make some digital ones with this quick tutorial.

27. Paint Effect

UBL Designes shows us how to accent text as though you splattered paint on it.

28. Spectacular Style Text Effect

Create a 3D text effect by duplicating layers and offsetting each layer.

29. Shining Neon Text Effect

Create a colorful neon text effect by using a Gradient Overlay and a few Layer Styles.

30. Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

Uses vector files to accent your text to achieve a similar look as the sample.

Show it off!

If you use one of these tutorials – we’d love to see your work – post it online and link to it in the comments. If you don’t have a server, you can use one of the many image hosting services like Flickr or even ImageShack.

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174 Comments

Ross

September 9th, 2008

Hey, thanks for featuring 3 of my tutorials, great list!

Janko

September 9th, 2008

Nice collection, I haven’t seen them all

Rudy Herman Sinen

September 9th, 2008

Amazingly creative.
I like the Grass effect, stitches and the cute Bee Movie.

tony

September 9th, 2008

its amazing

Marco

September 10th, 2008

Thanks for sharing! Too bad none of my tutorials got selected :( .

Check one of them here:
http://www.marcofolio.net/photoshop/stunning_neon_light_3d_typography.html

Keep up the great work!

Designer

September 10th, 2008

THANKS…..

ALSO CHECK THIS LIST OF 50
http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/50-creative-photoshop-text-effects/

Free Apple Gear

September 10th, 2008

Wow. This stuff is amazing. I’ll have to give these effects a try.

Fouad

September 10th, 2008

Wow… Great

Marilu

September 10th, 2008

Thank you so much guys, these are great tutorials and referrals for others. Now, all I have to do is find the e-mail addresses of all my boring typography professors I had in Art school…lol

Marilu

September 10th, 2008

Even if by a miracle, I do hope the boring professors see this post, lol.

techborneo.com

September 10th, 2008

Wow! this tutorial really cool! i love and being as a tech person who work on many things with Photoshop i just love this one. You guys rock!

i will try this one..

Krazd

September 10th, 2008

beautiful tutorials! dugg!

mahsyar90

September 10th, 2008

wow!its great!
i have to bookmark this! lol

ilyas TEKER

September 10th, 2008

Great..

thanks for sharing

Niyaz

September 10th, 2008

Thanks for the great list….

Synergy Designs

September 10th, 2008

Great collection. I just started using Photoshop and these tutorials will sure point me in the right direction.

starry

September 10th, 2008

Awesome list of text effects! I love messing around with photoshop! My favorite software. Thanks for the nice list.

Mr.Mikey

September 10th, 2008

These look FANTASTIC, and I’m about to design a new logo / header. What can I say? It’s pretty damn perfect!

ResonantFish

September 10th, 2008

#13 – You forget to mention that for all of these, you should SPELL THE WORDS CORRECTLY!

Photoshostar?!?

bangbouh

September 10th, 2008

Great collection. thanks!

Tom Ross

September 10th, 2008

Thanks for featuring one of my tuts. Great list!

PhotoshopFrenzy

September 10th, 2008

A few more for ya:

Cool metallic text: http://photoshopfrenzy.com/?p=71

Chrome: http://photoshopfrenzy.com/?p=72

Shocking text: http://photoshopfrenzy.com/?p=85

erichansa

September 10th, 2008

The “fire” font is impressive

bauty

September 10th, 2008

increibles… mil gracias !!!!! keep up the good (awesome) work!!!!!

josh

September 10th, 2008

Im liken these pixs

Dave Whittle

September 10th, 2008

Dynamite collection – thanks for finding the quality effects and putting them all in one place.

IhateDesign

September 10th, 2008

Pretty amazing, its just what im looking for for teaching photoshop to my sister

sampat

September 10th, 2008

really good. now i am able to do all this.thanks

ida

September 11th, 2008

Hei.It is fantastic pictures.A person who create it must be smart.

Craig

September 12th, 2008

Don’t bother with the smooth glass type…it’s trashed

Paul Sanderson

September 12th, 2008

I need your help…

in feb this year i started this http://www.wscoop.com its a resource for developers and designers.

But I need help

I need links to web design and development, site , articles links…… anything you think of….

Please are you able to help me make this into a great resource for developers and designers.

jose

September 12th, 2008

http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l55/j_o_s_e_01/?action=view&current=josetest.jpg

this is what i made

Ernest Asante

September 13th, 2008

I want some of your free tutorials how do I get them. I am a graphic designer.

Jacob Gube

September 13th, 2008

jose: Awesome, I’m assuming you tried the Smooth Glass Type tutorial from Luxa (#16 on the list)?

sandi

September 14th, 2008

Noo too amazing. But it’s so nice…

Mobility Creative

September 15th, 2008

Plenty of good tutorials here. Will have to look at them when I get a chance to and even try some out and see what I come up with. It’s always good to see some good tutorials. Thanks for the links.

Rob

September 23rd, 2008

Thanks for all of this. I now just have to find the time to master the effects. I guess one a week would be a good start.

cheers
Rob

Diane

September 23rd, 2008

Love this resource and will use it often. I’ve already used #18 for a church announcement for our youth retreat. I have it on the announcements slideshow on the front page of our site at http://www.fumcunioncounty.org. Thank you for organizing these tutorials for us.

Anthony

September 25th, 2008

thats awesome i thought i was good at photoshop. your great. check out my work if you want

Tanya

September 30th, 2008

Gorgeous tuts! Thank u!!

Jarkendia

October 4th, 2008

Sweet! Thanks ;)

gosk2001

October 22nd, 2008

really thanks about that

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Leo

November 25th, 2008

Great. Not all, but thera are many nice example.

Jessie

December 4th, 2008

Wonderful tutorial round up, thanks! This is what I ended up with:

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc110/4n6dna/Tegan%20And%20Sara/4n6dna_teganandsara.jpg

Pixelwiese

December 9th, 2008

Wow,
most of them are really good.
Thanks!

J

December 16th, 2008

This is really something i was looking a long time ago!!

McAwal

January 15th, 2009

nice list

Jesse

January 25th, 2009

FABULOUS!!!

Waqar

March 9th, 2009

Here Is My Work With The Help Of This Tut….

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4440/bubblestylepreview.jpg

Thankx

Nityananda

March 13th, 2009

I Agree this ia a Fabulous Brash

lemon

April 3rd, 2009

FAIL

dmx87

May 4th, 2009

Thanks for featuring……..the quality effects and putting them all in one place.

Rose

May 21st, 2009

I love the first one “EARTH”. “FIRE” also nice. :-)

Rob Wallace

May 24th, 2009

Thanks — my new logo is Vcool Transparent Glass lettering is working.

james

June 8th, 2009

nice list
here is best text ,3d text,and Typographic text Photoshop Tutorial
http://www.photoshopwebsite.com/photoshop-tutorials/90-awesome-text-effect-tutorials-in-photoshop-part-ii-2/

suog

June 9th, 2009

better if aall the tutorial is in PDF format

Arun

June 26th, 2009

It is very useful. keep the creativity

chonky

July 14th, 2009

nice dude

asha

July 14th, 2009

very nice text effects

Ashely Adams

July 23rd, 2009

These tutorials are an excellent way of learning useful Photoshop text effects. Some of them unleash the real power of Photoshop. I liked the “Transparent Glass Lettering” and the “Moon Shine Text Effect” very much and the accompanying tutorials showed me everything I needed to know. Thanks a lot for the post.