Typography has become one of the most demanding elements in modern design. In order to learn new ways to create awesome logo or text for promotional poster, you should follow up on the latest tutorials (Photoshop or Illustrator), where you’ll find new techniques how to create stunning text effects. And in this article we want to show you our favorite collection with of 30 aesthetic Photoshop text effect tutorials for your pleasure. Go ahead, create something aesthetic.
Create a Richly Typographic Illustration
Typography illustration using photoshop, and illustrator to extract vector elements. This tutorial uses a wide range of textures and layer styles.
Create a Cloudy Text Effect
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a text with clouds, using brushes and other few interesting light effects.
Create a Displaced Text Effect
In this Photoshop tutorial, it will show you creative way how to displace the text and get an interesting effect on it.
Create a Sweet Chocolate-Coated Text Effect
This Photoshop tutorial is thought for greedy people. Author will create a delicious chocolate-covered text effect. You will create some details on paper, then we will work with layer styles to achieve the nice result.
Design a Rocket-Powered Retrofuturistic Design illustration
In this tutorial, author will go through the steps of recreating my own experiment in this style. After making the 3D typography in Illustrator, you’ll use Photoshop to create an out-of-this-world digital illustration on the topic of space exploration.
Create a Distressed Vector Typographic Poster Design
‘Spectrum’ poster. Starting with custom made type in Illustrator, you’ll move our vector graphics into Photoshop for some serious distressing with Photoshop brushes, blending modes and more.
Create a Stunning Liquid text Effect
Author will look at how to use liquid photostocks to create a gorgeous and stunning liquid text effect in Photoshop. By using some clever techniques, you can warp liquids into a variety of shapes to meet our needs. In this case, you’ll learn how to create letters from liquids, and then add in some extra effects for a dynamic composition.
Easy Neon Text Effect
Neons were invented by accident over 300 years ago when a scientist shook a test tube. At the time though, their discovery was useless because they had no understanding of electricity. It took another 200 years for the concept to be rediscovered, and they called their invention ‘The New Gas’, or, as it was known in Greek, ‘Neon’.
Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect
In this tutorial you’ll make clever use of Illustrators built in 3D capabilities, gradients and opacity masks to design a Retro 3D Type Effect.
Create a Gothic Blackletter Typographic Design
Gothic typographic design, you’ll be modifying the original vector letters in Illustrator before moving over to Photoshop to add a cool distressed and metal effect finish to the artwork.
Create Colorful 3D Text Effect in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create colorful 3D text effect. Create 3D effect in Photoshop is difficult, therefore to create effect like this, we will use a little bit Xara 3D, but you can use Cinema 4D or 3DsMax, so you will learn also some Xara 3D techniques.
Urban Text Effect
London is hip again, and in this tutorial Holland-based designer Bram Vanhaeren shows you how he created a new piece that draws on all that’s great about the city – taking inspiration from the Olympics, underground club scenes and the city vista from up high.
Create and then shatter a Grid, while making a Typographic Poster
Let’s get our own share of typography with this dark and grungy poster. No, this is not your typical design, as we’ll be ‘breaking the grid’ in hope of creating a dynamic and exciting layout. So grab the usual tools of the trade, Photoshop and Illustrator, and follow these steps into creating your own solution.
Old Style Typography Sign
In this tutorial, you will create an old style typographic sign using shadows and textures.
Create a Funky Retro Wavy Text Effect
The purpose of this tutorial is to learn how to mask out an image so that it just shows through the editable text, making it friendlier to modifications later on. You will also work with layering textures to create a grungy retro background.
Create a retro Sci-fi Movie Poster
You will learn how to deal in particular with blending options and textures customization. This tutorial can be followed by Photoshop newbie without problems.
Old School Type effect
Following this tutorial you are going to take the base logo and add that cool “line gradient” effect that you see inside the actual letters. This gives the text an old-school or vintage feel to it. This look is prevalent in wood engraving and sign lettering. You can do this effect with any typeface or font because the principle is the same.
Retro Text Effect
Retro Text and Video Layers Retro text like this looks great but isn’t easy to create in Photoshop alone so here we use a mix of Photoshop and Illustrator, raster and vector to create some unique text. The second part of this tutorial explains video layers, something which is relatively new to most people. The final result will be an animated image that could be used for a web header.
3D Text Effect
3D text needs the right depth, lighting and texture. Nik Ainley tells you how to do this without re-rendering nightmares.
Create an Incredible Typographic Illustration
In this two-part tutorial, we’re going to learn how to bring a simple proverb into a complex typographic illustration that achieves a level of realism without actually using any photos. Yes, we’re going to build this idea from the bottom up. In the first part, learn how to model your own objects in Cinema 4D and prepare them for isolation in Photoshop.
How to create Eroded Metal Text
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create an eroded metal text effect. Throughout this tutorial we’ll make use of various drawing techniques, channels, and patterns.
Photoshop Battle Poster Tutorial
In this tutorial, Author will show you the steps Author took to create the Super Sleek, eye-catching text effect with Water Drop Texture. This effect is simple but effective, and would be suitable for any water/rainy/ocean themed designs you’re creating.
How to make a Typographic, Retro, Space face
In this tutorial, Author will show you how to make a typographic face by using simple techniques. Using the Brush Tool and experimenting with light, you will get this amazing Typographic Space Face that looks like it’s created by letters and an amazing explosion.
Text Effect with the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop CS5
So in this tutorial author will show you how to create a text effect using a photo of a rope and the Puppet Warp tool. This tutorial will only work with the CS5 version and author believe it won’t take you too much time.
Creating Retro Folded Typography
Prepare yourself to heavily rely on Photoshop’s Lasso Tool, as well as some other basic tools and simple techniques.
Lost in Space Typography tutorial
In this tutorial author will show you how to create an easy and super quick text effect in Photoshop. We will play with Brushes, Blend Modes, basic filters like Blur and Liquify, and also text.
Wet Ink Typography Tutorial
Create an awesome distorted type design. Using a range of Photoshop brushes we’ll create the appearance of printed type that has come into contact with drops of water, breaking up the text with oversaturated drips, runs and splats.
Shiny Calligraphy Text Effect
The effect is really simple and we will take a look at how to create patterns and light effects with blend modes.
Create a Mysterious Poster Design
We will learn together how to realize a marvelous poster design using Photoshop and Illustrator. Author will show you some useful IIlustrator tricks to create the 3D text effect of the piece, then we will switch to Photoshop to complete the scene with textures and color corrections.
Create Colorful Smoky Text Effect in Photoshop
In this photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create colorful smoky text effect. The process is fun and easy once you get going.
Create a Trendy Galactic Poster Design
Galactic space scenes are a popular theme for digital art, they’re packed full of texture and vibrant colour, which are two ingredients of an awesome design! Using Photoshop’s blending modes along with a mix of textures and brushes, let’s get lost in space and create an abstract cosmos poster design.
Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment
Whether or not you’re a Steampunk fan, this two part tutorial is sure to test your knowledge on Illustrator, Cinema 4D and Photoshop. In the first half, we’re going to customize a Blackletter font and create 3D text with vector shapes.
