Old School Type – Line Gradients

One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen Tool. The process for creating the base logo is not included in this tutorial. Instead, we are going to take the base logo and add that cool “line gradient” effect that you see inside the actual letters. This gives the text an old-school or vintage feel to it. Here are some more examples: So in order to get this effect, we will need both Adobe Illustrator CS2 or higher and Adobe Photoshop. You can see the kind of effect we are going to create. Step 1: Prepare your base logo or typeface. We will use our Dragonforce Logo as our base, but you can simply use your favorite font. 1a: Open up Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop 1b: Create your base text (just type something out using a bold font) Step 2: Make a new document in Photoshop Step 5: Make the text black. Conclusion:

30 Best Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials Early this year, I shared with you some “30 Astonishingly Fresh Examples of 3D Typography“. Now we have 30 of the best Photoshop 3D text effect tutorials rounded up for everyone who wants to create their own stunning 3D text effect. 3D text effect is a strong and eye-catching text effect, and quite easy to create as opposed to many preconceptions that only hardcore digital artists or designers can do this. You don’t need to learn a separate 3D software in order to create one. For most basic 3D effects, you’ll only need Photoshop, using bevel and emboss styles, pattern overlays, along with combining different techniques to seamlessly mount your 3D text into a related background. So if you’re looking for the best looking and stunning 3D text effect tutorials for you to learn, look no further. 1. 3D Flowery Text Effect 2. 3D Text Scene 3. 4. 3D Text Blocks 5. 6. 7. 3-D text with some extreme lighting 8. 9. 3D Cliff Text 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 3D Toy Text Tutorial 15. 16. 17. 3D Text Shatter Effect

dafont.com How to make a see-through to image text effect in Photoshop This is a really simple trick to creating an ordinary photograph with some text into an engaging image. I also have a GIMP version! See-Through Text Effect in Photoshop 1. Starting Open your chosen image in PhotoshopNow, add a New Layer – Fill with a colour that matches:I used a Dark Blue: 1a2932 Starting-Photograph and Colour (Click to view larger) 2. Grab the Text Tool – make a text box, same size as imageType your ‘text’ in capitalsSettings: Font: Gill Sans Ultra Bold, Size: 720px, Justify: Right, Spacing: 600, -100, (Dependent on image size, mine is: 4592×3506 pixels)Space out your text best as possible, as shown:Click the image to check settings: Adding Text (Click to view larger) 3. Now on Text layer, go Right Click –> Rasterize Layer Then, go Select –> Color Range… Click on text, with 0 Fuzziness: Selecting Text (Click to view larger) 3.b. Add Vector Mask 3.c. Create Clipping Mask on Photo 4. Deleting Text (Click to view larger) That’s it! Download the PSD! Written by Mike

Typography is Sexy: Part 1 Lately I have been surfing around vi.sualize.us and last night I was totally inspired by some really sexy use of typography. Since there was so much to show, I have decided to break it up into a few different parts – so stay tuned for some more sexy type! If you have some great examples, shoot them my way and I will try my best to include them in part 2. Hopefully this will inspire you to use type in many different ways. You can check out Part 2 here. Christopher Allen Fabiano Hikaru MrBadger – Deviant Art Albert Pereta Via – The Trendy Girl Sam Mallett Shaz Madani Debra Bishop – Blueprint Really Delicious Box Detail Via Flickr Hyperakt Design Group Winter Queen Poster Rob Millington MrBadger via Deviant Art

RAWZ Light Effects in Photoshop Last Friday we launched our new way for users to submit work for the Daily Inspiration at Abduzeedo. We call it RAWZ or Abduzeedo Raw Inspiration. Anybody can submit their work and we will select some to be featured on Abduzeedo. We also created a logo in Illustrator and then this cool effect in Photoshop, inspired by Tron. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create the RAWZ light effect in Photoshop. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 To create a carbon fiber texture is quite simple. Step 3 With the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) create a square selection like in the image below. Step 4 Go to Edit>Define Pattern. Step 5 Back to the document of our design, add a new layer and fill it with black too. Step 6 Select Pattern Overlay, then for the Pattern select the Carbon Fiber we created in the previous steps. Step 7 Here is our carbon fiber background. Step 8 Import the logo you would like to use. Step 9 Go to Layer>Layer Style. Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13 Step 14 Step 15

Guest Article: 20+ Amazing Typography Designs | fudgegraphics | for lovers Personally, typography and cool type treatments are my absolute favorite when it comes to design. There is an endless amount of room for creativity but still somewhat of a structure to follow leading to some real problems to solve and producing some real epic pieces of art. We all know typography has been around forever. Narani Kannan: Nicolas Alexander: Alex Trochut: Francesco Muzzi: Sebastien Cuypers: Andrei Robu: Jordan Metcalf: Fredrik Oscarsson: John Beckers:

50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II Few months ago we showcased 22 best Photoshop text effects Photoshop tutorials here at hongkiat.com, but then we soon realized they were still plenty of good tutorials out there and the current ones aren’t enough to satisfy most designers anyway. So we went searching for more and 3 months later, we beg to show you more. This time we put together another 50 really nice text effect Photoshop tutorials, making it more than 70 great Photoshop text effects in our archive. Full list after jump. Recommended Reading: More Photoshop Text Effects! Text In Stitches How to convert text to a path and how to stitch that path using a custom brush set. Colorful Glowing Text Effect Spray Paint Text Bling Bling Simple Gold Text Effect How to make a simple gold text effect by using some layer styles, namely the Gradient Overlay layer style! Cheese text effect How to make a stylish cheese text effect. Reflective Glass Tutorial (Video tutorial) Entrails Photoshop Tutorial (Video tutorial) Aqua Text Photoshop Tutorial

Create a realistic folded paper text in Photoshop - StumbleUpon Today we will learn how to realize a folded paper text effect from scratch in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background using a couple of patterns, then we will work on the type treatment with the help of the pen tool, layer masks and other useful techniques related to dodge,burn and the transform tool. This tutorial is very simple to follow, so I suggest to everyone to give a try. Preview: Click to enlarge Become a Premium Member and get unlimited access to source files and premium resources for only 7$/month. Step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop. *note for Mac users: ctrl=cmd, alt=option Step 2 Fill the background with a dark green (#41514c). Step 3 To create the textured effect of the background, I’ve used 2 of our soft grunge patterns created by Piervincenzo. Select the pattern2_380_hard and press ok to fill the background. Finally set the layer to overlay with opacity 50%. Step 4 Create another layer, this time fill it with pattern_9_380_hard. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10

30 Best Typography Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials Photoshop Text Effects have gained popularity within a couple of years now. The credit goes to Adobe which is adding new tools to Photoshop with every new release. You have gotten the freedom of using complex typography instead of using dull and boring headlines. Have a look at the gathering of variety of text effect tutorials below which may inspire you to create your own artwork. Create A Scrapbook Alphabet In this Photoshop Text Effect you’ll learn to create a simple Scrapbook style text effect that can be used as a stand alone word treatment or converted to individual reusable .png files with a transparent background. View Tutorial Create a Stunning Liquid Text Effect in Photoshop By using some clever techniques, we can warp liquids into a variety of shapes to meet our needs. View Tutorial Folded Paper Photoshop Text Effect There are a couple of nice “folded” text effect tutorials out there, but this tutorial takes a slightly different approach to the concept. View Tutorial View Tutorial

Create an Editable On Screen Text Effect using Smart Objects « PsAwesome★ Awesome Photoshop Tutorials In this Awesome★ Photoshop tutorial, i’m going to show you how to create an editable screen shot text effect. You can easily edit the text, you don’t need to repeat all steps from scratch, just double click the text layer and change it. This tutorial also has some good applications of Smart Objects. Have fun. Here is the Final Image Before we start lets see the final image we’ll create through out this tutorial. Before You Start | Tutorial Details: Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CS4Adobe Photoshop CS (step 7 won’t work)Tutorial Time: Difficulty Level:★★★★★ Files to Download: No files needed Create a New Document Lets start by creating a new document which is 900 x 600 pixels at a resolution of 300 pixels/inch, make sure Color Mode is set to RGB. Create the RGB Pattern Fill the Background with Black. Create the Text Now you can delete all shape layers and clear the guides by going to View > Clear Guides. Apply the Pattern Create a new layer on top and name it "Pattern".