Written by Ross Aitken Creating text and then decorating it is often a daunting task, not knowing what colors to use and how to achieve effective results with the resources you have is often hard to overcome. Keeping your text simple but still having it stand out is an art in itself. Here we learn lots...

In this tutorial we are going to take our text and turn it into an inlay in an old brick wall. To start off, lets create a brick-colored background. To give my image a little more depth I used a radial gradient. Use the text tool to write your title, and then rasterize your text by right clicking on...

In this tutorial, i’ll show you how to a text that look like it was formed by cliffs of mountains. Start a new document about 800×300. Reset your foreground and background color to black and white (Press “D”). Then...

In Text Effects by Collis Flames are particularly hard to render in Photoshop, but in this tutorial I’ll show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We’ll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image. This is the second...

1 Create a new image with the following attributes: Width: 11 inches Height: 11 inches Resolution: 300 ppi, 8 or 16 bit Background Color: White 2 Since the desired effect is to appear liquefied, a font that appears to have been made with a crayon or round brush will work perfectly. Select the Type...

In Inspiration, Text Effects by Kyle Pero In this tutorial, we will create this effect using very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects. This tutorial is simple enough for a beginner to understand, but I should warn you that in this tutorial there ends up being over 60 active text layers, which...

Step 1: Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 600×300 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with a black color. Now select the Horizontal Type Tool and set the font family to Arial Black, regular, 48 pt, crisp and #84C4FF color shade. In a new text layer type your name. Step...

In Text Effects by Collis In this tutorial we’ll be creating a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. It’s a good exercise in using the Wave distortion filter… Step 1 The first thing we need for our image is a background. We’re going to use...

Hey good people, Gabriel here with another Photoshop tutorial. Explosions are always nice to watch, but it’s even better to blow up stuff yourself. This is why I am going to teach you how to make your own exploding text that you can show off to your friends. For this tutorial we’re going to use a...

This tutorial shows how to create a scorched parchment texture, for a website or wedding invitation. If you plan on printing this design out, I’d recommend making it about 3000 pixels wide, by 4500 tall. Use Ctrl- to zoom out. 1...