21 Best Photoshop Text Effects

With modern web design and the growing art of graphic design, text is becoming a larger and larger focus for more and more artists. Text effects can portray a brand, a style, and a level of professionalism. That’s the reason why I am putting together the 21 best Photoshop text effects - so that you can learn new and creative methods to take your designs to the next level.

I chose this specific selection because I wanted to create a diverse list of tutorials that use many different methods to produce many different outcomes. I didn’t choose the most popular tutorials, or the most talked about, instead, I specifically selected this list to show you different tools and tricks to take your graphic design skills up a notch.

Like I’ve said before, its not about the destination, its all about the journey. If you don’t think you’ll like the outcome of one of these tutorials, do it anyway! The step by step process will give you more knowledge than you can comprehend about the endless possibilities in Photoshop. So have fun, try a few, bookmark this page, and come back later! Photoshop is a learning process that will never end - never hesitate to do what is great and to let your creativity run wild.

Enjoy!

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Mafia Text

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Jaguar Mac OS X Text

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Wanted Sign

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Bamboo Text

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Intertwined Text

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Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect

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Supernatural Text

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Old School Text

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Chrome Text

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Transparent Glass

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Chained Text

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Burned Text

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Bloody Text

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Battle Text

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Water Text

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Smooth Glass

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Pixel Text

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Shading and Text

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OS X Text

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Light Burst Text

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3D Reflective Text

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18 Comments RSS

Reply Matthew Griffin said on March 19th, 2008

Great list, Brian. Thanks for the links.
Reply Brian said on March 19th, 2008

Sure thing Matthew, hope you enjoy these
Reply Maria Ozawa said on March 19th, 2008

Bamboo Text looks like “hi-tech tribe” writings to me
Reply Katie said on March 26th, 2008

nice list
thx
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Reply Jenny said on April 3rd, 2008

I like a couple of those. I wanna see what I can do with them. xD
Reply Web Design said on April 15th, 2008

Brian,

Thanks a lot for having these tutorials all in one place. You make a great point in bringing a variety of methods to one area. I’ll certainly learn a lot more from the variety of tutorials here then I would practicing all the favorites. This has really inspired me, thanks again!
Reply halimah bibi said on April 26th, 2008

dont you have any more .come on man!
Reply Rajita - Logo Design said on May 25th, 2008

Thanks for these text effects.They are superb.
Reply Learn PhotoShop said on September 9th, 2008

Thanks for the tips on how to do text effects in PhotoShop!
Reply lydia said on October 1st, 2008

wow..i love the wanted sign…looks so real…thx a lot

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Reply lydia said on October 1st, 2008

wow…i love the wanted sign..thx a lot

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Reply prasad said on October 9th, 2008

Photoshop Text Effects.
Reply Logotype said on October 11th, 2008

Amazing stuff!
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