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5 Cool and Fresh Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials
Text effects seems to open up a can of creativity within artists that is unrivaled with any other aspect of graphic design. By taking the simplest form of text and a blank canvas you can create something amazing and at times awe-inspiring.
For today’s news round-up we have a small collection of amazing text effects and tutorials for Photoshop.
3D Typewriter Text
In this tutorial you’ll create some 3d typewriter hammer keys in Illustrator and mix them together with some painting techniques and the Vanishing Point Filter in Photoshop to create a stylish multi-dimensional wallpaper.
Photoshop Grungy Metal Effect
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a text effect using textures from stock images. The final image is a grungy picture with text being illuminated in the dark.
Jungle 3D text in Photoshop
This is a hunourous Photoshop tutorial that explains how to create a 3D jungle text effect. You will firstly create the text in Xara3d and then Photoshop to texturize the letters using the animals’ skin.
Retro-Style Text Effect in Cinema 4D and Photoshop
For this tutorial you will learn how to create 3D text and merge it into a retro-style scene, using Illustrator for the text, Cinema4D to make the text 3D and finally Photoshop to bring it all together.
3D explosion using the Brush and Smudge Tool
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a 3D explosion using the Brush and Smudge Tool using Photoshop and its default settings. After creating the explosion, the tutorial also features a few steps guiding you on how to create and implement your own 3d text.
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).
10 Comments
Feb 18, 2010
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Feb 18, 2010
really beautiful text effect tutorials and i never seen on any other site yet…thanks for new stuff
Feb 19, 2010
Thanks for some *truly fresh* PS tutorials, and not just the same rehashed ones we’ve seen before.
Looking forward to trying them out, especially the “Grungy Metal Effect.”
Feb 19, 2010
I have checked out these sites. These are really useful and informative. These 3D text effects are quite innovative and creative ! However, here my favourites will be that of the Photoshop Grungy Metal Effect, Retro-Style Text Effect in Cinema 4D and Photoshop and 3D explosion using the Brush and Smudge Tool.
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Dec 23, 2010
This is a very good post! Keep them comming!
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