Text

Wall of Text

Use a clipping group to place an image inside of a background of text, with another layer of text placed in front to create depth. Continue Reading »

May 2nd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (13)

Text Shape Layers

Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges. Continue Reading »

March 28th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (18)

Beveled Steel Type

Brushed metal is always a cool effect to pull off in Photoshop. And after you’ve created your steel texture, what better place to use it than to produce beveled steel type? Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Rich Harris | Text, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Weathered Words

Make your text look like it’s been around the block… or two! Call it weathered, grungy, or distressed, or what have you Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Lesa Snider | Text, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Perspective for Type Layers

Photoshop’s Transform> Perspective command is grayed out when you have a type layer active in the Layers palette. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Text, Tutorials | Comments (3)

Photoshop CS and Type-on-a-Path

One of the most requested features has finally made it to Photoshop with the release of Photoshop CS. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Text, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Curved Type Reflections

One such question came in yesterday concerning curved type reflected off a surface. Once I wrapped my brain around it the answer was/is very simple, so we’ll tackle it here. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Al Ward | Text, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Perspective Text

Let’s say you want to create some text that looks as though it is disappearing off into the distance. If you notice, you cannot transform text with perspective transform function. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Josh Spivey | Text, Tutorials | Comments (2)

Creating Toxic Waste Effects

This week we are going to look at creating a text effect using the new scatter brush option. This effect is simple to create and its not limited to text Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Colin Smith | Text, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Slimey Letters

With Halloween right around the corner, it’s time to start dressing things up. And nothing quite says “Happy Halloween” like some slimy letters sliding down the wall. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Text, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Photoshop Tutorials

Wild West Grunge

Corey shows you how to recreate this rugged, weathered look using a couple of filters, blending modes, and layer masks.
Wall of Text

Use a clipping group to place an image inside of a background of text, with another layer of text placed in front to create depth.
Natural Brushes

In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it’s own custom brush.
Custom Coins

In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter.

Text Shape Layers
Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.
Borders Under a Minute
Create really cool borders in under a minute to use on virtually any one of your photos or even video for that matter.
Custom Coins
In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter.
Natural Brushes
In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it's own custom brush.

Creative Contrast in Photoshop CS3
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some interesting techniques for improving contrast using the Shadow/Highlight command, empty adjustment layers, blend modes, and the Blend If sliders in the Layer Style dialog.
Enhanced Workflow in Lightroom 1.1
In this article, we'll focus on techniques that will strengthen your workflow skills and simultaneously reveal some of the new features in Lightroom 1.1.
Handlin’ Photoshop and Illustrator Content in Flash
we’ll take a look at how things work across Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash-specifically, some features and techniques for getting rasterized Photoshop content and vector Illustrator content into your Flash movies.
Understanding Channels in Photoshop CS3
Photographer Chris Alvanas wants to go over Channels, because understanding what they are and what they do is key to understanding what their potential is.

Removing Those Typographically Incorrect Spaces

If you’re trying to set type that looks typographically correct in Photoshop, there’s an old habit you’ll have to break, and that’s the curse of putting two spaces at the end of every sentence. This is a holdover from people who at one time used traditional typewriters, where adding two spaces was necessary, but in typesetting that’s a huge no-no. About 70% of the text I copy-and-paste from text files that people give me has two spaces, but I use this Photoshop tip to fix the problem in just seconds. First, go under the Edit menu and choose Find and Replace Text. In the Find field, press the Spacebar twice (entering two spaces), then in Change To, press the Spacebar just once. Click Change All, and every time Photoshop finds two spaces at the end of a sentence, it will replace it with just one, making you typographically correct.