Photoshop Madness : Even MORE Text Effects

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

Photoshop Madness, Fred Showker surfs the web in search of good Photoshop stuff

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL MADNESS 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

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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 )
free Photoshop Tutorial Full story : Text Tuts
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Easy Way to Work on a Great Text Art

MORE Adobe Photoshop text effects

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
CAUTION Caution : we listed this madness because the finished results is so good … but “Digital Arts Online” has programmed the site with a poorly implemented sort of slide show interface to step through the steps one at a time… difficult scrolling, and type that is about 8 point. Good tutorial, bad presentation.
free Photoshop Tutorial Full story : Craig Minchington digitalartsonline.co.uk
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NEXT : A Retro that’s really not retro, and more . . .

How to Design a Retro Style Text

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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.
CAUTION This site does have some stalker links.
free Photoshop Tutorial Full story : Vikas Singh Adhikari www.tutoriallounge.com
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Elegant Text Effect for 2013

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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.
free Photoshop Tutorial Full story : textuts.com (no author cited)
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Glowing Rusty Text Effect

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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!
free Photoshop Tutorial Full story : planetphotoshop.com
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3D Sliced Text Effect

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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!
free Photoshop Tutorial Full story : www.psawesome.com
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YES… there will be MORE madness … you can bet


Searching for good Photoshop images and tutorials amongst all the total madness out on the web Don’t let Photoshop Madness get you down!

There are always lots of spectacular Photoshop images and visuals out there! Share them! We’ll be back shortly with MORE Photoshop Madness … and please — BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU SURF … but when you do find a great Photoshop practitioner, or a good Photoshop tutorial, please share it with us! If you create Photoshop Tutorials yourself, please post your info here so you can be considered for a Photoshop Fave!

Of course, some of our favorite editions of Photoshop Madness can be found in the legacy Photoshop Tips & Tricks web site!
See the last edition of Photoshop Madness

Previously:
GO Photoshop (Designing Women) Madness

And, thanks for reading

Fred Showker

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