The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web

4/29/2008 04:53:00 PM Posted by Blogger Blogspot

For some unknown reason, each time we try a new graphics application, we feel the uncontrollable desire to apply the most cheesy effects to beautifully designed typefaces. These so called text effects or type effects are carefully hidden guilty pleasures that most designers enjoy to try, but would never dare to apply in real life work.

For those like me that love text effects and have the courage to admit it, here’s a thorough guide to the best 80 text effects available on the web.

To some these may be not the best tutorials on the web, but certainly they are some of the best around. I had to eliminate those that looked nice but had very little preview images. This guide includes 78 Photoshop tutorials and 2 impressive collections of Photoshop Actions, plus 3 books on the subject.

If you have created a cool text effect and you believe it should be mentioned in this list, just leave a comment with the link to your tutorial or resource in the comments section.

Text Effects Tutorials for Photoshop

Click on each image to read the tutorials

Text Effects Photoshop Actions

Action FX free Photoshop text effects actions
Al Ward is not only a renowned Photoshop Guru, but also the King of Photoshop Actions. Check his site and download all the wonderful stuff he is giving away for free.

Webteknique’s Free Photoshop Actions
These text effects are the most creative, unique, complex, wild and fun of all effects I’ve ever seen. These actions were created for Photoshop 5 and 6 but they should work in newer versions. There are a lot of actions to download!