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30+ Best Text Effect Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorials

30+ Best Text Effect Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorials

📁 Tutorials 🕔25.October 2015
30+ Best Text Effect Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorials

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In this post we have put together a comprehensive list of some of the best well written text effect tutorials we found on the web. Best of 2015, Photoshop and Illustrator text effect tutorials are for those who really love to make outstanding typography, calligraphy type artwork.

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How to Create a Shiny Summer Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will explain how to create a shiny summer text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started!30_Text 01

 

Creating a Glowing Neon Effect in Illustrator

This tutorial is designed to help you create cool neon text in Illustrator. Here you will learn some clever techniques to enhance your skills.30_Text 02

 

How to Conform Text to a Surface Using a Displacement Map in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to wrap your text and shape layers so that they conform to the surface of the layer underneath.30_Text 03

 

Create A Tools Text Effect In Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a tools text effect in Adobe Photoshop from scratch. You will learn how to use the basic tools and how to manipulate the anchor points to create a unique text effect. During the tutorial you will work a lot with vector shapes and anchor points but at the end of the tutorial you will feel more confident to work with these tools.30_Text 04

 

Create a Cartoonish Games Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In this new tutorial you will learn how to create a cartoonish games text effect in Adobe Illustrator.30_Text 05

 

How to Create a Yellow Brick Road Inspired Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

“It’s always best to start at the beginning—and all you do is follow the Yellow Brick Road.” This tutorial will show you how to use a brick texture, a simple brush, and a couple of layer styles to create a Yellow Brick Road inspired text effect. Let’s get started!30_Text 06

 

Create an Advanced Stone Text Effect in Photoshop

You’ll learn how to create a custom bump map, and how to use this technique to distort virtually any surface. Then you will combine Layer Styles to create an authentic ancient stone texture. Finally, we will explore few simple techniques for creating fast and realistic jungle vines with leaves.30_Text 07

 

Create a Highlighter Text Effect Vector in Adobe Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a simple highlighter text effect vector in Adobe Illustrator using a set of detailed pattern brushes. For starters you will learn how to setup a simple grid and how to create your highlighter using basic blending and vector shape building techniques along with some warp and transform effects.30_Text 08

 

Create a Dragon Fruit Inspired Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

Follow this new tutorial and learn how to create a summery dragon fruit text effect in Adobe Illustrator.30_Text 09

 

Create a Retro Star Wars Inspired Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to use a couple of layer styles, with a nice space texture and a flare brush tip, to create a Star Wars inspired text effect. Let’s get started!30_Text 10

 

How to Create a Twisted Balloon Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In the following steps you will learn how to create a set of detailed balloon pattern brushes and how to use them to create a neat text effect in Adobe Illustrator.30_Text 11

 

Create Yummy Donut Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial, I will walk you through the process of making a yummy donut text in Illustrator. We will use the basic tools and effects along with some basic vector shape to achieve the final outcome in short time.30_Text 12

 

Shoe Lace Text Effect

In this detailed tutorial, we’ll be learning how to create a shoe lace text effect using Adobe Illustrator. For beginners, you will learn how to create a shoe using the Pen Tool along with some vector shape building techniques and several effects (Gaussian Blur, Drop Shadow). Next, you will learn how to create the lace text using again the Pen Tool and some other basic tools. In this part, combination of linear and radial gradients can be very useful for achieving nice results in creating realistic vector illustrations. Let’s begin!30_Text 13

 

Create a Copper Pipe Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed copper pipe text effect in Adobe Illustrator.30_Text 14

 

Create Colourful Distorted Text Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the process of Creating this Colourful Distorted Warped Text Effect in Photoshop.30_Text 15

 

Create Light Painted Typography From Scratch in Photoshop

If you’ve ever attempted to write words using traditional light painting photography techniques, you probably know how challenging it can be to create words that are easy to read. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how you can create a similar look without a camera and tripod. Let’s get started!30_Text 16

 

How to Create an Oil Paint Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In this Illustrator tutorial learn how to draw a tubes of paint text effect. The tutorial is composed of two main parts, creating the oil-paint text and creating the tubes. You will start from basic shapes, fill them with some complex linear gradient and then apply the Gaussian blur effect for the results.30_Text 17

 

Create Bone Claw Typography in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Bone Claw Typography in Photoshop.30_Text 18

 

Create a Dynamic Liquid Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a dynamic liquid text effect in Adobe Photoshop.30_Text 19

 

How to Create a Colorful Pendant Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Looking for a nice little gift? This tutorial will show you how to use a bunch of layer style, textures, and shapes, to create a bright, colorful pendant text effect. Let’s get started!30_Text 20

 

Create a Carrot Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In the following Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a carrot text effect.30_Text 21

 

Create A Notebook Text Effect In Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a notebook text effect in Adobe Photoshop. You will begin to create the text using a font and then you will create the parts one by one to have a notebook aspect. You will learn how to transform a font into a vector shape and you will know how to cut the vector shapes and how to manipulate the anchor points. Finally, you will be introduced to Distort and the Add Layer Mask features.30_Text 22

 

Photoshop 3D tutorial

In this tutorial I will try to give you a glance of what Photoshop CS6 is capable of in terms of generating 3D text and composing it in a real-life photo, disguised as text shaped buildings.30_Text 23

 

Create Fire Burning on Metal Text Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create Fire Burning on Metal Text Effect in Photoshop. Have a go!30_Text 24

 

How to Create a Colorful, Summery 3D Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Summer is here! So it’s time for a colorful, fresh, and fun text effect tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to create a colorful 3D text effect, and then add in a couple of brushes and stock images to create an interesting, summery text effect.30_Text 25

 

Create a One-Layer Retro Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

The latest Photoshop update comes with a couple of pretty awesome new layer style features, such as multiple layer style instances and stroke overprint. This tutorial will show you how to use those features to create a one-layer-only, retro text effect. Let’s get started!30_Text 26

 

Create a Shiny, White and Gold, 3D Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop’s 3D environment has multiple tools and settings to create great 3D effects. This tutorial will show you how to use those tools and play around with the settings to create a shiny, elegant, white and gold, 3D text effect. Let’s get started!30_Text 27

 

How to Create a Stipple Effect for Editable Text

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple Stipple effect, which is applicable to editable text. To create this effect, it only takes a few seconds, thanks to a new Stipplism plug-in. Difficult manual work that takes hours of effort and years of practice has been replaced by the selection of parameters and clicking OK button.30_Text 28

 

Create Rusted Metal Text Effect Inspired by “Mad Max” Movie

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this Rusted Metal Text Effect Inspired by “Mad Max” Movie. Have a go!30_Text 29

 

Create a Christmas Candy Text Effect in Illustrator

In the following Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a detailed candy pattern brush and how to cleverly use it to create a sweet text effect.30_Text 30

 

Create a Fire Text Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop text effects tutorial you are going to learn how to create a vibrant flaming text effect. This effect will be created from scratch, without using any photographs. The flames will be created with The Flame Generator filter, a feature found in Photoshop CC. This filter is designed to render realistic flames on user-defined paths.30_Text 31

 

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