Top 30 Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Posted on 06. May, 2009 by Web Design in Roundups

Today i am going to show you some of my favorite text effect tutorials, using Photoshop. I have devised a compilation of my top 30. Photoshop is a very powerful tool, and no other application has a text editor as customizable as the one built into Photoshop. The text effects you can create are unbelievable, and are used all over the web in logos, headers, illustrations and graphic designs. These effects should keep you busy for a while.

Decorated Typography

Beautiful decorated text tutorial here. And the best thing of all, you can use any font you desire.

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Frilly Text Effect

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a 2009 frilly typeface, which you can then apply to other text.

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Professional Typographical Design

This professional typeface makes the word you want to spell out of the same word, but loads of smaller ones. Very clever.

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Smooth Leaves and Stone Effect

A very lust leaves and stone effect. The colours go very well, and makes the text look like its in the jungle.

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Striking Glowing Text

This is like space text, with a glowing star behind it. It looks very similar to the heroes logo, which is fab.

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Colourfull Pastel Typography

I love this text effect. Its very bright, colourfull and vibrant.

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Fire Text Effect

Learn how to create some nice flames on your text using Photoshop.

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Galaxy Style Text

A futuristic style text effect. This can be used on space / futuristic websites, or websites with a dark background.

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Glowing Space Text Effect

A lovely glowing style effect. This can be very mysterious.

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3D Text With Extreme Lighting

This nice bold text effect can go well using different colours, and experimenting with different lighting effects.

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Snowy Rock Photoshop Text Effect

A really nice bold snowy rock text effect tutorial. Worth checking out.

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Sleek Pressed Letter Design

This is an eye catching text effect. I love pressed lettering, and this tutorial can teach you how to do it using Photoshop.

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Need For Speed Pro Street Stencil

In this tutorial, you can learn how to create something like the Need For Speed Pro Street stencil.

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Windows Vista Style Text

This text effect is much like the Windows Vista glass text.

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Magic Glowing Sparks

A beautiful text effect tutorial that teaches you how to create text with glowing sparks.

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Ice Text

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create awesome ice text like in the image below.

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Awesome Starry Text Effect

This text is much mysterious, and looks very nice on a dark background.

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Shining Crystal Text Effect

This is a nice shining crystal text effect tutorial. You can change the font to what you desire, and also the colour of the text.

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Christmas Wrapped Text Effect

A lovely text effect to use around the Christmas period. You can make each individual letter custom wrapped, and it would look great as a title.

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Copper Text Effect

When I look at this text effect, words that sprint to mind are machinery, factory etc, so it must do its job. Its a lovely effect, but you have to use it with the right colours.

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Colourized Text

A nice and simple plain text effect.

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Wooden Photoshop Text Effect

This text effect tutorial makes text look old, and applied a wood effect to it. Its very customizable, and looks very attractive.

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Colourfull Glowing Text Effect

A nice subtle light glowing text effect that can be applied on many different fonts.

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Vibrant Pop Text Effect

A lovely bright vibrant Photoshop text effect tutorial. I love this effect!

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Dynamic Watercolour Typography

Simply beautiful describes this text effect. Click the image below to view the tutorial.

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Dark But Vivid Text Effect

A nice simple vivid text effect.

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Retro Text Effect

Lovely retro text effect. Very eye catching.

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Shining Neon Text Effect

This is a really nice Photoshop text effect. I love the nice neon glow, and if used on a dark background, it looks amazing!

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Awesome Grunge Text Effect

A sweet grunge text effect Photoshop tutorial. Can be used for many different things.

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Layered Glowing Text Effect

Another great tutorial by PSD Tuts. Very simple, transparent and smooth.