25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects
Published in Design, Photoshop TutorialsWith some creativity you can create amazing text effects with Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 25 of the best tutorials for creating 3D text effects. There are a variety of different types of effects, so hopefully you can find some new tricks to learn.
If you’re looking for examples of inspirational uses of text, please see our new gallery site, TypeInspire.
Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop
Create a 3D Text Scene Using Photoshop
Photoshop Tutorial: Stunning 3D Effect in 30 Minutes
Valentines Day – Photoshop Style
Glowing and Sparkling Intense Light 3D Logo
Stunning Neon Light 3D Typography
Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop
Creating a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text
Create a Spectacular Style Text Effect
Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect
How to Create a Realistic 3D Stone Text Effect
Create 3D Text with Some Extreme Lighting
3D Text Effect in Photoshop (video)
Create a Colorful 3D Text Explosion
How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop
How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect
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74 Responses
Thanks for mentioning my Papercraft Text Effect. Yesterday I published a new text effect in the same line:
Popup Papercraft Text Effect
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2009/06/22/a-nice-popup-papercraft-text-effect/
Thanks again!
Awesome! I have been looking for a tut like the second one for a week now. glad I seen this in my feed reader today
These are some Really Nice Tuts!!
Loved the Fresh Text Effect!!
Yeah Second one looks Grand.
All i can say is they are red hot! Thank you for the tut!
Whoah, amazing roundup! Some very nice high quality articles are listed here.
Also, thanks for listing two 3d Text Effect tutorials from Marcofolio – glad you liked them.
Keep up the great work!
Great collection, I’m a huge fan of 3D text.
Thanks for adding two of mine from Denis Designs also!
very nice collection. Love it
Awesome collection! I have to say that PSD Tuts creates some of the most amazing tutorials, and this gallery only proves that.
Nice collection. Love it!
Hey, thanks a lot for including the Kaboom text tutorial on this very inspiring list!
I love this blog.
This is just an awesome post! I just recently started using photoshop myself. Started out making some signatures for my forum user names. Now, I was trying to learn on how to create logos for my business names and ideas. Now I have another task! To learn 3D Graphics. I really do appreciate the work you put into this post. I’ll be visiting this blog much more in the future.
As always you have put together a fantastic collection of design tutorials for 3d.
Hey, Great list! Thank you!
There’s also a nice video of a 3D logo tutorial here :
http://www.logofreestyle.com/?p=67
The interesting point is that this one doesnt requires any other (3D) tool.
Wonderful tips and thanks for sharing Text(3D), i will be taking these tips and putting them to good practice as soon as possible.
Who needs 3DMax when you have Photoshop? This is a really useful post. I’ve often wondered about how to make better 3D effects with Photoshop. Now I know. Thanks.
Fantastic list – some of these effects are stunning! Thanks for sharing
The image explosion is very good. I would like to thank the one who posted the article on that. It is really cool.
Thanks.
grate photoshop tutorials and best designing
thx for the tutorials
. I have a tutorial 3d logo design – Logo Design behind the Scenes. I use Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe after Effects, Adobe Flash and Adobe Dreamweaver. so the final logo ready for printing, TV production and Web Publishing.
http://www.petermikhael.com/tutorials_3d_logo_design.html
It is so amazing to see what we can do with Photoshop and this is one of the best examples.
Keep up the good work.
3D text effects are really awesome, I love the “cold” one.
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/best-of-the-web-28/
This is an incredible resource. We can definitely use this as a loading screen or make a portion for effects on a part of the website itself.
very inspiring me..thx a lot, be the best
thx, great list
WOW! I’ve never tryed the 3d effect tool in photoshop. These are awesome. I’m going to look into these tutorials.
Simply magnificent collection of effects for Photoshop. I was just going to create a new design dyal your blog and thinking to make a new logo, now with the help of these lessons will think something beautiful. Thank you!
This is a really useful post. I’ve often wondered about how to make better 3D effects with Photoshop. Now I know. Thanks
Thanks for posting the tutorials. Really liked them! Especially the tutorial on 3D text explosion. I got my designer from logodesignstation.com to design a logo for me based on a few of the tutorials that inspired me. The final approved logo looked great and was affordable too. Thanks again for posting the tutorial links…
Great tutorial roundup
There are some really amazing 3D text effects among your selection. I never really though about trying a 3D text effect in photoshop but now I am definitely going to. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the Text effects tutorials, I have found them very useful and will be using them on my projects
Tutorial is great. I love spectacular glass and stylish retro)
Effects collected on this page impress! Especially I liked effects «Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop» and is modern the effect «3D Text Effects» which very much will approach for use at logo creation, for example, for an entertaining site looks. Thanks!
That’s absolutely fantastic titorials which can be easily used to improve our videos! Actually, I couldn’t even imagine before that effects like Milk could be created without 3D Max or similar software/
Thanks again, what a wonderful resource!
Link to “Create a Colorful 3D Text Explosion” doesn’t work.
Rest of the links are ok. thx
i love transformer style, just try it but not made it
thanks for sharing, i love the list and make me eager to learn more
Yep! Link to “Create a Colorful 3D Text Explosion” doesn’t work. Plz do some thing
Mebel,
It’s an old post. When other blogs are taken off line there are going to be some dead links.
What amazing post is !
Your tutorials suggested above give me many experiences in learning PSD.
Thank for sharing .
Jimmy
Nice collection. Valentines Day – Photoshop Style is great.
nice effects, thanks for the list
Amaizng tutorial. One more great tutorial(s) to love photoshop. Will be coming back. Keep posting such good stuff.