We’re back, to wrap up the 19th Annual Fall Fonts Fest with this madness of yet more text effects — even a retro one that’s actually not, and one from the cleaned-up Photoshop Planet guys . . . ENJOY:
* Beautiful Glossy Text Art Using Photoshop
* Easy Way to Work on a Great Text Art
* How to Design a Retro Style Text
* Elegant Text Effect for 2013
* Glowing Rusty Text Effect
* 3D Sliced Text Effects
… and MORE
We’re back, to wrap up the 19th Annual Fall Fonts Fest with this madness of yet more text effects — even a retro one that’s actually not, and one from the cleaned-up Photoshop Planet guys . . . ENJOY:
* Beautiful Glossy Text Art Using Photoshop
* Easy Way to Work on a Great Text Art
* How to Design a Retro Style Text
* Elegant Text Effect for 2013
* Glowing Rusty Text Effect
* 3D Sliced Text Effects
… and MORE
Beautiful Glossy Text Art Using Photoshop
This tutorial will explain how to create a luxurious glossy metallic marble textured text effect, using Layer Styles, and a simple pattern. It utilizes downloadable patterns and textures.
(Text Tuts didn’t list the author, and we cannot rely on the credits. The site boasts of being created by a person calling themselves, simply : Rose — but the domain is registered to a “Brent Oxley” from somewhere near Houston, TX )
Full story : Text Tuts
Easy Way to Work on a Great Text Art
In this tutorial, 3D artist and illustrator Craig Minchington demonstrates how to create elegant 3D type without using a CG suite such as Cinema 4D or Maya. Instead, he’ll use the 3D tools in the Extended version of Photoshop CS6
NEXT : A Retro that’s really not retro, and more . . .
How to Design a Retro Style Text
Author Vikas Singh Adhikari shows you how to create an Retro poster.This tutorial will cover some advance techniques of lightning, blending modes and line art
As we’ve said many times before, many artists call things “retro” just because there’s a grungy background, or old looking display type. This is actually NOT retro … or else retro to an era we didn’t experience or know about. Maybe on another planet.
Elegant Text Effect for 2013
This tutorial will explain how to use the new 3D tools in Photoshop CS6 to create an elegant royal 3D text effect. Some details will be added to clarify a couple of steps, so that the process is a pretty easy one to follow.
Includes links to a number of downloadable resources.
Glowing Rusty Text Effect
This tutorial explains how to create a rusty text effect, using Photoshop filters and a texture image. Then, it explains how to use Photoshop brushes and layer styles to add some glow to the final effect.
We were delighted to see that Planet Photoshop has cleaned up their web site! Congratulations guys!
3D Sliced Text Effect
In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a 3D text effect using actions, basic transform operations and filters. This is an intermediate level, approximately 2 cups of coffee long tutorial.
2-page article, mostly free of spam!
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