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50 Essential Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Published April 21st, 2008 in Design

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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.

You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Flaming text

Smooth Glass Type

Glass text

Slow Shutter Text Effect

Slow Shutter Text

Placing Multiple Images Inside Text

Multiple Images in Text

Stylish Text

Stylish Text

Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

Shade and Text

Grunge Rubber Stamp

Rubber Stamp Text

Graffiti with Photoshop

Graffiti

Faking Text Wrap in Photoshop

Faking text wrap

Kaboom! Exploding Text

Exploding Text

Recreate the “Bee Movie” Text Effect

Bee Movie Text Effect

Freezing Ice Text Effect

Freezing Ice Text Effect

Color Reflection Special Effects

Reflection

How to Create a Gold Text Effect

Gold Text

Old School Type – Line Gradients

Old School Text

Cartoon/Comic-Style Text Effect

Cartoon Text

3D Typographic Effects

3D Text

Matrix Text Effect

Matrix Text Effect

Metallic Spiderman 3 Text

Spiderman Text

Text Explosion Effect

Text Explosion

Colorful Light Burst Text

Colorful Light Burst

3D Text

3D Text

Reflective Liquid Type

Reflective Liquid Text

Swirl Text Logo

Swirl Logo Text

Stylish 3D Text

Stylish 3D Text

Dreamy Text

Dreamy Text

Text on Turf

Text on Turf

Zoom Text

Zoom Text

Snow on Text

Snow on Text

Aqua Text

Aqua Text

Simple 3D Text

Simple 3D Text

Electric Text

Electric Text

Reflective Metallic Text

Reflective Metal Text

Futuristic Text

Futuristic Text

Glowing Text

Glowing Text

Plasma Text

Plasma Text

A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

Supernatural Text

Radioactive Text

Radioactive Text

Glow Letter with Perspective

Letter with Perspective

Text on a Path

Text on a Path

Metal Text Effect

Metal Text Effect

Web 2.0 Style Text

Web 2.0 Style Text

Mosaic Text

Mosaic Text

Taco Bell Text Effect

Taco Bell Text

3D Styled Text

3D Styled Text

3D Bulge Text Effect

3D Bulge Text

Black Glass Reflection

Black Glass Reflection

Striped Text

Striped Text

Cool Breeze Text Effect

Cool Breeze Text

If you are interested in inspiration for typography and text effects, you’ll love our new gallery site TypeInspire.

127 Responses to “50 Essential Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials”

Shanna Cote April 21st, 2008

HA. i should have checked my feed 10 mins ago.. i just scoured the web for text wrap in PS. found the same tut. Awesome list! Thanks so much!!

Shanna

Vandelay Design April 21st, 2008

Shanna,
Sorry it was a bit late. I’m glad you like the collection.

joe April 22nd, 2008

wow that is some real cool graphics i wish someone could do me a header like that for my site

RedesignYourBiz.com April 22nd, 2008

Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome………….

Erika April 22nd, 2008

Excellent collection. I JUST spotted that Ainley tutorial earlier this weekend.

PinkPetrol April 22nd, 2008

Once again some class text design, nice one vandelay

Sammy x

James Mann April 22nd, 2008

Isn’t Photoshop a ton of fun?

I have been using Photoshop for years and even taught a couple of basic and intermediate courses. It can be a scary thing for beginners though.

That’s why tutorials are so great. Thanks for the list.

I really like finding new techniques for things that I spend hours on.

SEO Bedrijven April 22nd, 2008

Good inspirational post! I’m working on a logo for our site and this post really helps.

Scott Fillmer April 22nd, 2008

I have been using photoshop now for probably over 10 years and I am continually amazed at how little I scratch the surface of that program.

My applications are mainly in photography, so I hit the same features each time. Thanks for sharing these, they are great.

Jay Francis Hunter April 22nd, 2008

Freakin’ mind readers.

I recently came across this…but was looking for something…nicer? Prettier? Higher class. Booyah.

Thanks.

agencja modelek April 22nd, 2008

Great list of tutorials. I`d like to post my logo using this technics ;-)

Fubiz April 22nd, 2008

Excellent list …

karen April 22nd, 2008

i need to purchase a copy of Photoshop/any related software…please reply

Wes P April 22nd, 2008

These links look great. Definitely bookmarked! I might point out, though, that the “Shade” tutorial (6th from the top) is the wrong link.

April - Of Scotland April 22nd, 2008

I really need to see about getting photoshop. I have corel photopaint and hate it a LOT.

Vandelay Design April 22nd, 2008

Karen,
I’m not sure what kind of reply you want. You can buy Photoshop just about anywhere.

Wes,
Thanks for pointing out the dead link. Too much copying and pasting. I fixed it.

April,
I’ve never used Corel Photopaint, but I would highly recommend Photoshop.

Jacob Cass April 22nd, 2008

Wow, this is awesome. I am going to use the 3D one in a new project. Nik Ainley is a god. Thanks Steven.

imsraaia April 23rd, 2008

Excellent… thanks….

Sandy Allen April 24th, 2008

Awesome. I needed the graffiti tutorial to get a specific message into an outdoor shoot. Thanks!

Manik April 26th, 2008

Thanks for investing time to put together this post.

I found this really helpful.

Ty Lombardi May 5th, 2008

Hey there,

Awesome post. I haven’t seen half of these and I’ve been using Photoshop for years! I like how you gave images under each tutorial name so that we can get a feel for the tutorial without having to click it first.

On another note, I’d like to compliment you on your blog. It is very well organized and quite unique.

Keep up the good work!

Mobde3 August 13th, 2008

archived this link to my bookmark!

Nisansala September 8th, 2008

Great collection, love it. Thank you so much for composing and posting this. :-)

Bas September 16th, 2008

Love this site! great work keep it up

Jordan September 23rd, 2008

Plasma text, makes no sense, way confusing, for a beginner, ima beginner. no sense at all, will confuse u.

gsdji October 25th, 2008

used some of these on my site! thanx alot!

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Addy December 8th, 2008

niche collection :)

get entertainment February 20th, 2009

I really like these tutorials. Well, i guess most of them. Thanks

natraj February 24th, 2009

good tutorials

Menaka March 8th, 2009

your tutorials are really very good..

Labinash May 26th, 2009

List is Simply Awsome !!!!!

Lanka News Reporter May 30th, 2009

This tutorial is really helpful for me.
Thanks for the tute collection.

SarXes June 12th, 2009

Thx for this huge of photoshop text tutorial collection. Great Job ;)

Abdullah July 1st, 2009

how can we make a broken glass for the background?

Web Design Company India July 2nd, 2009

Nice photoshop text effects tutorials. It really useful to me because nowadays i am trying to learn photoshop. And i hope your tutorials helps me a lot

Tracy Mazelin August 1st, 2009

Great resources, thank you!

Muhammad August 17th, 2009

thats what i commented in the last blog that adobe photoshop have this all option about text …. like photoshop have All the things … giving some ideas from this it great Really :)

medyum August 22nd, 2009

Awesome. I needed the graffiti tutorial to get a specific message into an outdoor shoot. Thanks!

foly September 1st, 2009

Thanks
For the excellent text effect tutorials.Its really a great help..

Better Sleep September 14th, 2009

Wow.. this excellent design.
It really useful to me since i am trying to learn photoshop.
thank you so much!!

Troy September 16th, 2009

The link to the one titled Dreamy Text doesn’t work anymore.

Lia Yang October 27th, 2009

I Love Most Of These Logo……..
So Pretty……

SEO Naperville November 4th, 2009

Really great stuff guys. This is an awesome collection. However, only some of these have the PSDs.

mahesh November 18th, 2009

Your text designs very very bautifull I realy inspired by the way Im FINE ARTS student
Ilike your designs nice keep it up …….

Stefan Gustafsson November 18th, 2009

Thank you for this awesome list :)

Single November 20th, 2009

Your site doesn’t correctly work in Safari 4 in Mac OS X (4Version) :( Please help me How can I remove the problem?

Vandelay Website Design November 20th, 2009

Single,
Can you tell me what the issue is?

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