This is a collection of links to Photoshop tutorials and tips on creating text effects. To return to the main Photoshop page, click here.
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| Text | Making Text Glow | Create glowing text without plugins or filters |
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| Text | Gold Metallic Text | Step by step method for creating text with a gold metallic appearance |
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| Text | Weathering Images | Adding a battered and worn look to type |
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| Text | 6.0 Letterhead | Using 6.0, text tools and a photo to print a letterhead at the top of a page |
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| Text | Jet Contrails | Make one that says what you want |
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| Text | Quick 3D Text | Making 3D text without lighting effects or gradients |
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| Text | Cutout Text | Cutting out text from textures |
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| Text | Glowing Text | Putting an inner and outer glow on your text |
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| Text | Alien TextFX | Creating the blurry text effect from the movie title |
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| Text | Damaged Effect | Letting the wind blow through your text |
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| Text | Easy Cutout | A quick way to achieve the "cut-out" effect |
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| Text | Simple Drop Shadow | A variation on a basic technique |
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| Text | Fire | Put some heat in your text |
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| Text | Charcoal Outline | Creating a charcoal outline effect around your type |
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| Text | Drop Shadow | Learning the basic technique |
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| Text | Fuzzyglow | Give your message a warm fuzzy feeling |
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| Text | Ice | For that cold message |
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| Text | Outlining Text | Make a neat outline on any shape text |
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| Text | Embossing Text | Meant for those before 5.0, which has the effect built in |
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| Text | Outline | Basic tutorial to create outlines around text |
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| Text | Neon Effects in No Time | Creating a neon-light effect around your text |
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| Text | See-Through Solutions | Creating translucent type |
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| Text | Creating True Text Outlines | Outlining without losing the loops |
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| Text | Drop Shadows | Add contrast, depth, visibility and readility; but beware of the Cheese Factor |
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| Text | Chrome Text | A simple yet attractive way to add text to your site |
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| Text | Pushed In Letters | Sink text into the background |
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| Text | Layer Effects | How to make Drop Shadows, Bevels and more |
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| Text | Quick and Easy Text Effects |
Using the Layer Effects menu to create drop shadows, glows, embossing and beveling; in Photoshop 5 |
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| Text | Placing Text on a Button | Make letters look pushed in a little |
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| Text | Chiseled Text | The chiseled text dug-out look |
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| Text | Jeweled Gold Text | Create this stunning effect |
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| Text | Lightning | An electric glow through your text |
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| Text | Rusty, Shiny Metal | Someone left my text out in the rain... |
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| Text | Text Panel | Make a transparent text panel with drop shadow over an image or photo |
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| Text | Bold Shapes and Text | Emboldening your text |
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| Text | Silver Reflections | A reflective, depthy effect |
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| Text | Exploding Text | An explosive effect |
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| Text | Outer Bevel | Making your text stand out |
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| Text | Dripping Outline | Your text can melt and begin to drop down the page |
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| Text | Heated Metal Text | Putting a realistic hot steel surface look on letters |
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| Text | Antique Gold Text | Class up your act with antique gold text |
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| Text | Texture Text Effect | Fill type in with any texture |
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| Text | Just Text FX | A variety of special text effects, from simple to slightly more advanced techniques and effects |
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| Text | Anti-Aliasing | Techniques to use when you've drawn an un-altaliased mask and want to smooth it |
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| Text | Linking Letters for a Monograph | Use layers to accomplish this neat effect |
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| Text | 3D Pop Out | Cool 3D looking letters |
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| Text | Creating "Translucent" Graphics | When the background color changes, so does the text |
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| Text | Type on the Tarmac | Integrate text with your image |
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| Text | 3D Wire Text | A wire mesh text effect done with a custom brush |
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| Text | Gold Text | Make all different types of gold |
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| Text | Beveled Type | Using Clipping to create a beveled look |
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| Text | Chipped Type | When your type is too smooth, beat it up |
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| Text | Grungy Text | Splattered, distorted grunge style text effect |
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| Text | Gold | Step-by-step to create a shiny gold text effect |
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| Text | Fancy Text | Step-by-step to create a fancy text effect |
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| Text | Techno Text | A 3D text tip with techno style dots |
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| Text | Reflections | Step-by-step to produce a reflected type effect |
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| Text | Text Around a Circle | When you need to do circular text in Photoshop |
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| Text | Chrome Text | Make real-world chrome with reflection maps |
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All links checked and working on September 10, 2001