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50 Essential Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

50 Essential Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
Last month I published a collection of 45 Photoshop Tutorials for Better Navigation, which quickly became one of the most popular posts on this blog. Due to the response, I spent some time finding more great Photoshop tutorials. Here are 50 of the best tutorials for working with text. If you are interested in inspiration for typography and text effects, you’ll love our new gallery site TypeInspire. Looking for hosting?

Photoshop Photoshop is widely used by many to make an image look very cool and bright. It assists in enhancing the photos to a large extent. Several of its features can completely transform a dull and boring picture to a very smart and perfect one. There are several easy Photoshop tutorials to make the lives of Since blogging became a popular method of self-promotion for designers, there has been a virtual “Cambrian explosion” with regards to the number of Photoshop tutorials online. Nowadays, you can find high quality design tutorials that show off Photoshop effects that even exceed many of the effects shown in paid tutorial DVDs, all for free at Photoshop actions can speed up the workflow for designers, artists and photographers by containing commonly desired effects in a prepacked file. For designers, free Photoshop textures can be the most useful resource in their library. The days of printseem to be quickly passing us by.

Free Fonts Generator - Make Your Own Handwriting Font With Your Fonts Create an Awesome Funky Text Effect Funky, abstract text effects can yield incredibly stunning results. Whether they’re fiery and explosive, cool and sleek, retro, or intricate vector compositions, the techniques used in abstract text effects are applicable across nearly all fields of design. In this tutorial, you’ll learn step by step, with a plethora of details and screenshots, how to create an awesome funky text effect. Master digital artist Bruno Kenzo will take you through his detailed workflow that he used in the creation of his work, FUNK-IT, which has received significant recognition in the design community including a Daily Deviation on deviantART. You’ll learn the use of clipping masks, a variety of layer modes and blending techniques, along with a variety of other effects for this awesome and funky text effect. Let us know what you think in the comments, and hope you enjoy the tutorial! Tools Used: Adobe PhotoshopStock Images (see below) Resources: Final Image Preview (Click for the incredible full view):

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Highlighted Chrome | Photoshop Tutorials Step 1 This technique can be applied either to text or any other “thing” you’d like to add some cool chrome to. For the purposes of this tutorial, I’ll be using text in my example, however feel free to apply the technique to any other shape. Begin by creating a new image 500x500px with a dark gray background. Step 2 On the new channel fill the selection with white, then deselect (Ctrl+D). Note: If your font is very “thin” overall, you may get a bevel in the following step that looks too rounded - if that’s the case, consider using lower values during the multiple-gaussian-blur step (such as beginning with 6 or 4 instead of 8). Step 3 Now with the type layer active, go to Filter » Render » Lighting Effects and use these settings. Step 4 Next go to Image » Adjust » Curves and match your settings with those in the example below… by this point things should be starting to look a lot more like chrome. Step 5 Now that the chrome is all set, it’s time to add the highlight. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8

Compose to a Vertical Rhythm “Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.” So says the typographer Robert Bringhurst, and just as regular use of time provides rhythm in music, so regular use of space provides rhythm in typography, and without rhythm the listener, or the reader, becomes disorientated and lost. On the Web, vertical rhythm – the spacing and arrangement of text as the reader descends the page – is contributed to by three factors: font size, line height and margin or padding. The basic unit of vertical space is line height. Establishing a suitable line height The easiest place to begin determining a basic line height unit is with the font size of the body copy. There are many ways to size text in CSS and the above approach provides and accessible method of achieving the pixel-precision solid typography requires. Spacing between paragraphs Variations in text size Headings

Bling Bling text | Photoshop tutorials for every photoshop user Achieve a shiny diamond bling-bling text effect using photoshop Step 1. Make a new document and write your text on it. Step 2. Add the folowing layer settings: Drop shadow: Bevel and emboss: Gradient Overlay: Step 3. Now we need to make a selection of the text. Final Step. Add a inner glow with the settings below and you are done. Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS. Papercraft Text Effect Wired Magazine introduced on the September 2008 issue a new headline design created by Mario Hugo. This cool headline design struck me with its beauty and simplicity. So I decided to turn this effect into a Photoshop tutorial. Since he designed a custom typeface for these headlines, I had to find some similar typefaces to apply this effect. As usual, my tutorials are very long.

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Photoshop Collage Tutorial multiple images in Photoshop Tutorials on creating metal type abound online, as do variations on simple liquid effects. Most are fairly short, offering a good foundation for the reader on how certain effects are achieved but fail to take that extra step (or few steps) to make the piece really shine. Once you have an idea of how different techniques fit together in a piece, it is fairly easy to combine, say, the process to create metal and the process to create liquid to create something that exists in both sides of the FX map. Create a new image with the following attributes: Width: 11 inches Height: 11 inches Resolution: 300 ppi, 8bit Background Color: White Color Mode: RGB (Important or it won'r work) Since the desired effect is to appear liquefied, a font that appears to have been made with a crayon or round brush will work perfectly. Note that the color is gray in the #666666 range and NOT stark black. Type a word across the face of the image. Open the Filter menu and select Blur>Gaussian Blur. That’s it for now.

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