text effects

A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 15

by Lisa Casson on September 8, 2011

Gold Text in Photoshop

Today I decided to try a gold text tutorial, in line with my text effects theme. Gold, in my opinion, is hard to achieve realistically. It usually looks heavy and fake. I found a tutorial which was very simple and very elegant. Here is my final result:

Gold Text in Photoshop
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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 14

by Lisa Casson on September 7, 2011

3D Molten Text in Photoshop

Following my theme of text effects, today I found a cool-looking fire and ice 3D text tutorial. The tutorial wasn’t very clear and I overdid it slighly, but I loved the layer effects in the tutorial and it also gave some nice resources to some awesome Photoshop brushes. Here is my final design:

3D Molten Text in Photoshop
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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 13

September 6, 2011

Light & Shade Text Effects in Photoshop Today, in continuing my theme of text effects, I decided to try a really nice one that played with lighting effects. Here is the final result:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 11

September 4, 2011

3D Text Effect in Illustrator & Photoshop Today I decided to do another text effect tutorial (I really enjoy these and they’re quick). It was another combined work of Photoshop and Illustrator, and I loved the final result. Here it is:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 10

September 3, 2011

3D Text in Illustrator & Photoshop I’m enjoying creating text effects, so today I found a beautiful 3D text effect I wanted to try. It’s also so fitting since we’re heading into Spring. Here is my final artwork:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 9

September 2, 2011

Grunge Banner in Photoshop I enjoyed the grunge buttons I created yesterday, so I decided to do another grunge tutorial, this time a banner with combined text effects. My husband needed a new Adwords banner, and since our company website is sort of grungy, I could kill two birds with one stone. Here is his [...]

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 6

August 30, 2011

Stitched Text in Photoshop Today I took a while to complete a tutorial. I started one but the tutorial was too vague, so I had to find another. I found a cool looking text effects tutorial on how to created stitched text in Photoshop. Here is the final result:

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