Photoshop > Text Effects

The infamous plastic effect with a twist. Learn how to recreate it using only layer effects, and understand the theory behind the effect. Very handy for interfaces & text!

Learn how to use a water texture for all your photoshop creations.

This tutorial demonstrates a really cool effect you can use to make your text seem to melt into or "pop out of" your website's background.

This tutorial will show you how to make chrome effects that are as smooth as Craig David. There are a variety of different methods for making chrome. Here, we will make use of some new effects added in Photoshop 6 as well as a background image used as a relection map.

Here is a simple technique that will allow you to create neon glowing text that resembles those ever-popular window fixtures. This effect is made purely with Photoshop's Blending Options (a.k.a. Layer Effects in PS 5), so it can be saved as a Layer Style if you wish to save it for quick and easy future use.

One very simple way to spice up your graphics by adding outlines. There are some even easier ways to make outlines in Photoshop than the way shown in this tutorial, but I'm going to show you the old way to do it, which is probably the most flexible.

Create some rough, spattered text.

Learn how to make text out of various stones.

Enhance your imagery with a froody grid.

Creating grid lines with photoshop is easy, and can be used to make your imagery look tight and froody.

How to master Lighting Effects.

Not your average scan line tutorial.

Create oil text that is so realistic, it will make you slip just by looking at it!

Add some shine to your test to make it look 300 times better!

Plug your text into a light socket!