19 Awesome Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

This is a collection of my favourite Photoshop text effects that look pretty sweet, I would recommend experimenting with these styles if your looking for some thing a little bit different.

Candy Coated Text

candy-text-effect

Smooth Glass Type

smootheglass-text-effect

Slow Shutter Effect

slowshutter-text-effect

The Original slow shutter tut is unavailiable but some one kindly uploaded it…

Glassy Text Effect

glassy-text-effect

Text In Stitches

stitches-text-effect

Milk Typography Effect

milk-text-effect

Create Destructive Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect

lust-text-effect

Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

lightandshade-text-effect

Smoke Text Effect

smoke-text-effect

Papercraft Text Effect

cutpaper-text-effect

Creating the Sky Logo

sky-text-effect

Write a message in Sand

sand-text-effect

Richly Ornate Typographic Illustration

ornate-text-effect

3D Oasis Text Scene

oasis-text-effect

Gooey Text

gooey-text-effect

Funky Sticker Style Text

sticker-text-effect

Liquid Text Effect

liquid-text-effect

Metal Chrome Text

chromemetal-text-effect

Gold Text Effect

gold-text-effect

Comments

Do you have any favourite effects, or have you seen some other text effect tutorials on the web that you like, please feel free to share them in the comments.

Author of this post: Max Stanworth

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108 Comments (Leave a Comment)

  1. Meade

    That Chrome text effect is wicked cool.Thanks for posting this,I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.Now I found one.Thanks again.

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  2. jp

    i wanted to try the shutter speed but theres no tutorial nor page for it… seems removed.

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  3. This site was extremely usefull to me, thank you for that. This site provided me lots of good and usefull info. I also got a site about in the genre of design, its mainly about Blogger/Logo Design. maybe you can drop by some day so we could share some info. Well, I hope to hear from you soon and ones again, thank you for this great site!

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  4. heyy heyy heyy i like your milk font it is pretty cool. Best one up there.

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  5. I’ve been looking for the Goo text for ages. It says “GOO” but for me as a designer it’s PAINT :)

    Lou
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  6. What a great photoshop effects. Nice looking Thanks

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  7. great examples here, they look awsome very useful!
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  8. The link for the writing in sand effect doesn’t work. Does anyone have any other suggestions on a good tutorial?

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  9. Destini

    The sand tutorial no longer works. Anyone else have the directions for this? I really need this look.

    Thanks!

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  10. thank you for sharing. im learning typhography in ps now.

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  11. Hey max! you are a gr8 person offering great photoshop tutorial and helping out people to do better in photoshop job.
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  12. BT

    thanks a lot for sharing
    they’re awesome!!!
    I’m still new with photoshop

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  13. Moe

    Thanks for linking to my tutorial :)

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  14. Nice info provided by you.
    Thanks
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  15. nice effect
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  16. Nice info provided by you.
    Thanks

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  17. I cannot believe what you can do with photoshop. I will be updating my other websites today with some of the mud writing.

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  18. Sue

    Dear Max, I think this is what I’m looking for…Thanks for the tutorial, man! You’re the greatest:-)
    .-= Sue´s last blog ..Hana… =-.

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  19. nice demo,very interesting lessons.

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  20. Wow cool stff i love sand and glass effect Text… I love to work on Photoshop … create whatever you want in this… :)

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  21. This software is flat amazing. I am thinking of buying “Elements” for Photography. I only hope I can learn the application and get half these results.
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  22. It’s awesome!

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