50 Creative Photoshop Text Effects

Sep 10th in Effects, Web Roundups by Danny Outlaw

Learn how to soak your text in bubbles, splatter it with blood, turn it to glass, then to ice, melt it into water, grow it into grass, cut it from metal and riddle it with bullets. These 50 incredible Photoshop effects will create text that explodes from the page (or the screen).

Author: Danny Outlaw

Danny Outlaw runs the Outlaw Design Blog.

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  1. K3v September 10th

    Nice list! :)


  2. Craigsnedeker September 10th

    Amazing thank you!


  3. Craigsnedeker September 10th

    Arg, I thought I was first LOL


  4. Lawrence77 September 10th

    wow what a list…

    I like the 26th effect (lol 26 is my college register no) :)

    Good work by Danny Outlaw…. thanks man!


  5. Ross September 10th

    Guys hate to break it to you but SixRevisions just released the same list five hours ago: http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/photoshop_text_effect_tutorials/, Pretty much exactly the same tutorials as well, why the need for two??


  6. Max | Design Shard September 10th

    Cool roundup, should be useful


  7. Steve September 10th

    I released one similar on the 5th September on my website, but only the 15 best, but also majority the same…


  8. Steve September 10th

    Nice List though, some that I didn’t find in there :D


  9. Lawrence77 September 10th

    ROSS its correct but here there are many than that….

    From my opinion there is no need to post the PSDTUTS text effects….

    Anyway good work….


  10. Lawrence77 September 10th

    @steve
    Steve out of those 15, 9 are from PSDTUTS only…. :)


  11. curtis allen September 10th

    Thanks for the cool text tuts


  12. Dante September 10th

    Great list! very, very useful….


  13. Steve September 10th

    Lol @Lawrence77: Ye thats because the majority of the good tuts come from here…:D


  14. loswl September 10th

    WOW!!..Great post!!..I have not seen some of these before!!….EXCELLENT LIST!!


  15. Lawrence77 September 10th

    @Steve
    Ye correct… :P


  16. ac September 10th

    hate to break it to the rest of you hating to break it, but this list has been posted dozens of times on dozens of “blogs” for months now…with the exception of a few more that have been added. and gee, can’t wait to check my rss feeds and see this list posted *again* on them all, once more.


  17. Daniel September 10th

    Thanks for the feature :D


  18. Nate September 10th

    This is a fantastic list of text effects. Thanks a bunch.


  19. A September 10th

    10 of these 50 are from psdtuts. people are getting paid now to simply repost psdtuts’ own links with somewhat oddly cropped pictures next to them?


  20. insic September 10th

    nice list but there’s a lot of effects that is so common. That makes this post not so interesting. hehehe


  21. Joefrey Mahusay September 10th

    Great and very interesting list there.


  22. Johnson Koh September 10th

    I like no.4. Cool idea on that.

    Thanks for sharing!


  23. Q September 10th

    Be thankful that they are making these available to us. Instead of complaining about how you’ve seen these over and over again, go find some new ones or come up with some on your own. Quite frankly, I see nothing wrong with them being reposted. More availability for those who haven’t had the chance to access them yet.


  24. puffgirl September 10th

    good list yeah. but ive seen it all over :\.


  25. Designer September 10th

    ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!!!!!!

    THANKS A LOT


  26. Patrik September 10th

    Naaw, not impressed!


  27. NaldzGraphics September 10th

    great list.although i seen something like this on sixrevision.


  28. Lenni September 10th

    WOW WOW WOW…

    THX a lot…


  29. Gerasimos September 10th

    Thanx for the mention man!


  30. AliasArt September 10th

    Thanks, for an article like this I searched very long.


  31. Ross September 10th

    Anyway thanks for posting two of my tutorials :D


  32. Shane September 10th

    very nice list indeed - thanks for posting.


  33. BogDinamita September 10th

    defenetely gonna try ‘em out!! thanks ;)


  34. Mr_LeE September 10th

    great list mate.. will look a few =]


  35. Lawrence77 September 11th

    @COLLIS i had a doubt man?

    Is this you?

    http://www.digital-web.com/images/profiles/collis_taeed.jpg


  36. Grafiko September 11th

    great collection, thanks for sharing


  37. crazyhunk September 11th

    really good collection m8…gr8 stuff


  38. Lawrence77 September 11th

    @INSIC
    insic your photo was so beautiful?

    Whose photo is that?


  39. Deorgkate September 11th

    Great list. I fail to see why people are complaining. Last time I checked, websites/blogs weren’t required to synchronize their posts to reduce redundancy. As well as point out the obvious fact that SR posted 30, while this list is 50. Note that there effects in one and not the other. So redundancy, if looked at closely can lead you to something new. Then again, I’m not one to complain about someone posting something on a blog for us to enjoy freely. That kind of sharing is to be respected not nitpicked. Good job nevertheless, nice and handy little list.


  40. andi September 11th

    Disappointing, many I’ve even seen already, or are completely rubbish


  41. Make Design, Not War September 11th

    Yet another useful post - I’ve seen quite a few of these ‘text-effect’ collections, but this one actually includes more than a handful that I actually would like to play around with in the near future. Awesome post - thanks!


  42. Dainis Graveris September 11th

    bah, so many good stuff - I just can’t decide where to strat! Really big thanks!


  43. TUNA September 11th

    WOW I love this list, thanks for adding these great text effects.
    We can get really good ideas out of these.


  44. Tom Ross September 11th

    Great list, I’d not seen a few of these before!


  45. robby September 11th

    Great collection!


  46. Mark Abucayon September 11th

    cool, I like this list here. thank for sharing


  47. RUGRLN September 11th

    So why is it whenever I click on a link, I get PHP ERROR???


  48. Lawrence77 September 11th

    RUGRLN its maybe your service provider mistake?
    or else try anyother browser???


  49. Darrin September 12th

    Thank You, this will come in very handy!


  50. MR September 12th

    wow these are really great collection. Best text effect collection I’ve seen so far


  51. Mr Kuzio September 12th

    What a list!!! O.o

    There are some great design ispiration. Thanks a lot!


  52. Mahesh September 13th

    Really cool effects!

    http://www.pixelseffect.blogspot.com - learn photoshop cool filter effect


  53. Wicked Sushi September 14th

    I haven’t really bothered with learning text effects before, but now this would be a great time for me to start.

    Very nice tutorial collection; I especially like the Retro text effect. Thanks!


  54. Jason G September 14th

    Ummm… Uh huh… These effects aren’t very special.


  55. Erica September 15th

    very good!


  56. Ravi kumar September 16th

    Very gud tutorial


  57. Md. Jakir September 16th

    Very nice tutorial collection !!!

    Thanks


  58. Mr.Kool1030 September 16th

    Verry good!! I like 49, 46, 18 ^_^!! thank!!


  59. SAAM September 16th

    That’s Very Gud! I Like It Thankzz[:)]


  60. hiperkarma September 24th

    Niceeeeeeeeee :)
    I wish someone made a tutorial bout cats


  61. artDirector October 4th

    Love it. Thanks for the tutorials. Keep them coming!


  62. evden eve October 6th

    Good Thanmk you


  63. r4ge October 7th

    some of these are very nice thanks for the list keep up the great work! =]


  64. Luan Santana October 14th

    Great!
    Perfect list!


  65. Toelu October 24th

    Woow..I Love This Thankx Man


  66. waseem October 25th

    It’s a big help for me.thanx


  67. waseem October 25th

    It’s a big help for me ,i tried the 16th effect ,my friends appreciated me
    thanx.


  68. Flokke December 2nd

    Does anyone know where the “Simple dark but vivid text effect” tutorial could be found? The given link is dead :(


  69. Kdom Builder December 3rd

    Absolutly Brill List!!
    I am just a beginner as such and its got me to do some pritty awesome stuff now!!

    Thx’s all!

    Creations: http://kdombuilder.deviantart.com/art/Logo-Wallpaper-105293815
    http://kdombuilder.deviantart.com/art/Kdom-Builder-Txt-Effect-105288671


  70. Gerasimos December 8th

    Dark but Vivid text effect and Colored Chrome text effect are back online! :)


  71. Ryz December 11th

    I like #34, i am going to attempt to do it.


  72. S.B. December 14th

    Great collection, I love this whole list!!!!
    I am going to do each and every single one, as one can learn different techniques from them.


  73. Nicholle December 29th

    I really wish you would all stop complaining about what is original and what is not. Sure, just copying another artists work is wrong but there is nothing original on the web. Nothing. It’s all be done before. What gets me is that based on comments about originality, tuts get removed and for the new comers like myself, our resources become diminished. Please just be grateful that you have FREE awesome resources like these!!!


  74. ant January 4th

    Really helpful from a new guy into photoshop! Thanks alot!


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