No matter you want to design a banner or logo, text effect is very important. Why? It is because a beautiful text effect on the banner or logo will attracts the visitor and also delivers a better message.

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate the processes I used to design this snowy rock text effect in Photoshop. The inspiration of this design came from a snowy mountain photo I saw the other day, and I thought I could create a similar text effect which might look interesting!

Before I start, let me say that this is by no means the only way to make a hand drawn font. Ever since I began giving away fonts, I’ve had many requests for me to write a tutorial on my font making process, so here it is. This is how I do it, and depending on your responses, I can go deeper into a FontLab Studio tutorial.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a powerful text effect that is slightly feminine but looks good, this effect can also be done in any other color so don’t worry. Just change the colors as you see fit

This tutorial will guide you through the steps of creating Aqua Plastic Text in Photoshop.

In this tutorial, I will show you a rather useful technique I use in Photoshop to make perfect human selection, which requires the combination of channel mask and the quick selection tool available in Photoshop CS3.

 

 

Typography means a lot in any medium kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner or just a title; being able to inject creativity into it not only help in delivering the message across, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer. Good typography design is not easy, or should I say getting the type match and speaks for the product is often a very challenging job.

Here are some of the best Photoshop text effects tutorials on the web, and as usual it’s the creativity that counts. Full content after jump.

 

1. ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect

   

2. Metal Text Effect

   Really metallic chrome effect.

   

3. Grass Text Effect

   Cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience.

   

4. Leopard ‘X’ Effect

   

5. Exploding Text Effect

   9 Steps in creating an exploding text.

   

6. Reflective Liquid Effect

   Realistic text made from water drops.

   

7. Slow Shutter Text Effect

   Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.

   

8. Flaming Meteor Text Effect

   Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno.

   

9. Smooth Glass Effect

   Nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.

   

10. Soft Stylized 3D Type

    Basics of creating polished 3D type using Illustrator and Photoshop.

    

11. Fire Burning Text Effect

    How to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match.

    

12. Text Graffiti

    

13. Bling Text Effect

    How to make a realistic bling bling gold and diamond text.

    

14. Supernatural Text Effect

    Creating a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel.

    

15. 3D Typographic Effects

    How to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.

    

16. Chain Text

    

17. Smooth Chrome Text

    

18. Starcraft Text

    How to create a nice StarCraft style wallpaper.

    

19. Advance Glow Effect

    

20. Old School Type

    

21. Grunge Rubber Stamp

    Simple method to create grunge brushes, and to detail how these brushes can be used to reproduce realism in our rubber-stamped logos.

    

22. Swirl Text

    Useful for creating a unique logo for your website.

    

    From: HongKiat.com

To get the rulers go to View: Rulers and this will bring up a ruler border around the document. Or you can use the shortcut of Ctrl R to toggle on and off the Rulers.

Six Font Styles that Make Text Stand Out

It's easy to put text on a monotone background and have it stand out. However, when the background is multi-coloured, it becomes much harder to find a font style that will be easily readable.

Few months ago we showcased 22 best Photoshop text effects Photoshop tutorials here at hongkiat.com, but then we soon realized they were still plenty of good tutorials out there and the current ones aren’t enough to satisfy most designers anyway. So we went searching for more and 3 months later, we beg to show you more.

This time we put together another 50 really nice text effect Photoshop tutorials, making it more than 70 great Photoshop text effects in our archive. Full list after jump.