Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

Learn how to create striking, sophisticated type treatments in Photoshop. Explore a range of techniques that can help you efficiently illustrate your ideas with type in Photoshop.

Introduction

• Create compelling type effects in Photoshop

1. Simple Type Effects

• Illustrate a concept
• Modify letterforms
• Create an interlocking effect
• Create a text sandwich
• Type as an image
• Putting a picture inside and outside of an image
• Warping an inline pattern
• Creating metallic type
• Word in word

2. Damaged and Distressed Type

• Sliced text
• Double masking
• Shattered text
• Offset text
• Water droplets
• Displacement slicing
• Torn or ripped text
• Rain damaged type

3. Real-World Type Effects

• Displacing text on a waving flag
• Setting your type on fire
• Painting type with custom brushes
• Adding light effects to your type
• Neon
• Smokey text
• Entwined type
• Free-form warped type
• Working with 3D type

4. Print-Inspired Type Effects

• Transparency and texture
• Charcoal
• Wood type effect
• Decorative drop cap: Pattern overlay
• Decorative drop cap: Custom extruded shadow
• Decorative drop cap: Adding decoration
• Fully justified type
• Misregistered text
• Halftone text
• Letterpress effect
• Type and transparency

5. Type and Pattern

• Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode
• Pattern effects with the Offset filter
• Combining the Offset filter with layer masking
• Patterned 3D type
• Type patterns with symmetry fill
• Texture from type

6. Type Portraits

• Simple type portrait
• Shaded type portrait
• Environmental type portrait

Conclusion

• Next steps