Resources - Written by Josh on Monday, May 26, 2008 20:01 - 58 Comments

15 Amazing Photoshop Text Effects

Tags: photoshop, text effects, Tutorials

Photoshop text effects are one of those things can either be really cheesy or just plain awesome. Hopefully this list of text effects (and tutorials on how to do them) will help sift through the muck.

Be sure to try these out and do your best to make them your own style. Don’t settle for just copying a tutorials and leaving it at that. Put your own twist on it and try multiple ways of doing it. If you take that route, you’ll actually learn something instead of just copying.

3D Pixel Text
Twist, bloat, stretch, and glow to get this eye-catching pixel text.

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Bee Movie Text
Learn how to create this deliciously honey-glazed text from Bee Movie.

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Grass Text
One of the best “natural” text effect tutorials I’ve ever seen. Learn how to create extremely realistic grass text.

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Ice Cliff Text
Create an icy cliff of text. Don’t fall!

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Kaboom Kaboom Exploding Text
Learn how to create a colorful text/particle explosion.

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Light Burst Text
Create text that is bursting with light.

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Liquid Text
If you aren’t careful, this text might drop right off of your screen!

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Crashing Meteor Text
Watch this text crash right in to earth.

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Shocking Text
Possibly the most popular text effect tutorial on the internet, this shocking text is a classic.

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Slow Shutter Text
Learn how to mimic the effect of a slow shutter on your camera and draw with light.

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Smooth Glass Text
A great tutorial about highlights and shadows with text.

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Snow 'N Ice Snow ‘N Ice Text
A fun, cartoony effect to help cool off the summer heat.

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Soft Stylized Text Soft Stylized 3D Text
Create smooth 3D text without the use of 3D software.

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Stripe Text Colorful Striped Text
Create candy-like striped text with this simple tutorial.

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Valentine Text Colorful Striped Text
A great lesson on brush use and blending to create a colorful collage.

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Eli
May 27, 2008 19:25

Thanks for linking to my tutorial. Stumbled for ya!

Website Design
May 28, 2008 16:50

Excellent tutorials on these sites. Thanks for the list. I use some of them frequently already.

Gabriel
May 31, 2008 9:57

Hey, thanks for listing my tutorial. Great looking site here.

Pshh yeah
May 31, 2008 20:21

Fake. Photoshopped.

Ajay
Jun 1, 2008 6:46

looks really gr8. i was never know about all these things about the PS. thanks for sharing with us

Jad
Jun 1, 2008 10:17

thanks for listing those tutorials

john
Jun 2, 2008 11:52

Cool site. Thanks!

Mimi
Jun 2, 2008 20:49

Great Toots’ loved Meteor.

Pshh yeah, you cracked me up.

“Fake. Photoshopped.” hehehehe

1Life
Jun 4, 2008 0:09

Awesome. You guys really know your thing.

sir jorge
Jun 4, 2008 20:15

they are pretty good, hopefully i can use them in real life scenarios

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Jun 5, 2008 12:40

uummmmm….. are you sure that all of them are real…..

no fakes……
huummmmm….
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Jun 7, 2008 20:48

these are really nifty.

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P7
Jun 9, 2008 5:24

Thank you for this tutorials. They are very useful.

Erica DeWolf
Jun 9, 2008 5:25

This is a great collection of tutorials. I’ve bookmarked them and will be sure to try them out and utilize their effects later!

Website Design
Jun 9, 2008 21:09

Amazing text effects! Thanks so much for posting they will be used with respect. Thanks again!

voodoo_child
Jun 9, 2008 22:20

make these into Actions buddy, it will help more folks

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Jun 10, 2008 1:28

Really nice list. I’m sure these will come in handy.

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Jun 13, 2008 9:51

excellent tips. I’m wondering if there is any translation for GIMP?

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Laurence
Jun 16, 2008 13:16

Nice one, good list.
Some of them are pretty simple though.
The slow shutter text is brill.

sharon
Jun 16, 2008 22:47

Is there anywhere to go for similar tutorials for photoshop Elements? I can follow these instructions to a point, but some things are oriented differently. Thanks!

steve-e
Jun 17, 2008 14:31

Pshh - Like it Not often LOL actually means Out Loud.

Good effects too, great work all involved.

website design
Jun 17, 2008 16:20

Great effects. easy to use

Asha
Jun 18, 2008 23:27

Good effects !

Joe
Jun 19, 2008 9:30

Excellent collection of tutorials! Thanks for putting these together.

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Jun 20, 2008 1:38

Nice post… I like it like Milk and Company

WonKa
Jun 20, 2008 21:32

Best Stumble ever!

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Jun 21, 2008 15:40

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Larry Lesser
Jun 22, 2008 23:09

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Sufiyan
Jun 23, 2008 3:20

Thanks for the tutorials dude

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Jun 24, 2008 0:41

Amazing Effects … Thanks

Gadgets Gizmos
Jun 25, 2008 15:20

nice effects. I like the grass text effect. Looks really cool

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Jul 19, 2008 4:18

Thank you for making this list - favorited it and stumbled

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Jul 20, 2008 22:42

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Aug 15, 2008 14:13

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widaca
Aug 17, 2008 10:32

Great text effects! Thanks for sharing.

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Aug 28, 2008 3:23

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Sep 25, 2008 6:41

very nice ! Good post

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