Photoshop Tutorials

Written By Steve Patterson In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial , we're going to see how to engulf text in an explosion of light and color. There's quite a few steps involved in this text effect, and we'll be using a couple of filters that are not used very often in everyday Photoshop work, but creating the text effect is quite simple and the end result is definitely worth the effort. Here's the text effect we're going for: Let's get started. Step 1: Open A New Photoshop Document Open a new document in Photoshop by going up to the File menu and choosing New... , or by using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+N (Win) / Command+N (Mac). You can choose your own width and height for your document, but if you want to follow along, I chose the 640x480 size from the list of available presets to keep things simple. I've also left my Resolution value set to its default of 72 pixels/inch . Since I'm creating this text effect for the web, it makes no difference w...

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 compreh...