30 Beautiful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
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.
124 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¤t=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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