14 Most Impressive Photoshop Typography Effects

By Henry Jones / Apr 1, 2009 / Tutorials

In web design, there are often times that you will have text to which you want to draw extra attention. We all know the power of Photoshop. So why not use it to add an impressive effect to that text that will be sure to get peoples attention.

There are many Photoshop typography effect tutorials out there, but I believe that these are some of the best. Not only are the final results stunning, but contained in each are many techniques that you can add to your bag of design tricks.

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

This one does require Adobe Illustrator to create the 3D text.

How to Make Patch on Clothes

Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop

Create Destructive Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect

How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

This one does require Adobe Illustrator to create the 3D text.

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Colorful Glowing Text Effect in Photoshop

Transparent Glass Lettering in Photoshop

Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Steps

Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

Smooth Glass Type

How to Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect

Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

About the Author

Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. He is the founder of WDL and ThemeTrust.

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Samuel
April 1, 2009
Nice collection.

Thanks!
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Johnson Koh
April 1, 2009
Thanks Henry, for featuring my tutorial
Cheers.
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Brandon Holliday
April 1, 2009
Thanks Henry. Believe it or not, this is exactly what I was looking for…
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kevin ferry
April 1, 2009
Wonderful work and thanks for the valuable tips
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Design Jar
April 1, 2009
Great design, especially the dream design typography. I wish I had the time to produce stuff like this myself.
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Themes Closet
April 2, 2009
Good collection of fresh tutorials Some of them featured on SmashingMag also, but it is nice to be reminded of them
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joyoge designers’ bookmark
April 2, 2009
great typography effects thanks for the list..
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Mario O.
April 2, 2009
Nice Tuts… Great!!
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Joshua Harrison
April 2, 2009
Great looking tutorials.
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Kayla
April 3, 2009
Great list! I was looking for something like this…definitely bookmarking!
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Danh ba web 2.0
April 4, 2009
Excellent post. Keep up the good work
Nice weekend for you !
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David Leggett
April 5, 2009
Outstanding

Thanks for including one of our tutorials in the mix. I’m a huge fan of the dramatic splash effect and recessed watercolor effect.
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Kp
April 10, 2009
The Layered Glowing Text Effect, was sweet. Thank you so much really loved these tutorials. I emailed this page to a bunch of people. Thanks.
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Paul
April 14, 2009
Nice collection, thanks.
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Metin
April 21, 2009
It’s great post. Thank you so mach. Keep up the good work
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_mark
April 24, 2009
wow.. the best compilation yet!
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Marta
May 4, 2009
OMG!!! THANKS A LOT!!
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Microtransaction
May 18, 2009
Constantly amazed by people’s creativity with photoshop. Abduzeedo has been putting out some great work for a while now.
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anonymous
May 24, 2009
this post is unreal, ha. Thank you very much.
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Note
July 2, 2009
Very useful for doing design.
Million Thanks!
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Sara
July 4, 2009
Great post! Thanks for sharing!
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Adi
July 15, 2009
The smoke text tutorial was awesome. Like it so much. Thanks for share this great tutorial.
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Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing
July 24, 2009
Your list looks absolutely stunning. I loved the “Metal 3D Text” and I think I should give it a try. The level of creativity is truly amazing. I sometime wonder how much people can go crazy with Photoshop and lucky that they do. Such designs are really inspiring.
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Sumeet Chawla
September 4, 2009
Thanks for this awesome list of resources I could really use some of them
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Mike
November 11, 2009
Why dont you have something like heraldry lettering like the one in mount and blade?
Please let me know if you are posting one. You really did a nice job. you are a genius.
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Krystal
January 12, 2011
great! i needed help @ Cambridge, and this really helped!
thanks alot!
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Aimee
May 6, 2011
Love the GLASS effect!
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