Create Fresh Fruit 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the process of creating fresh fruit 3D text effect in Photoshop. You will learn a few trick to render a nice and unique 3D text effect and apply various fruits around it. We will use a number filter to add some extra effect for our text. This… Continue reading Create Fresh Fruit 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

Flat UI Pro 1.2 Released

Today, we announce the long-desired release of Flat UI Pro 1.2. The main feature of this release is its support of Bootstrap 3.0, officially issued a few weeks ago. This was a long time coming because of issues and the addition of new elements/code. Thank you for your patience! Here are the most important changes:… Continue reading Flat UI Pro 1.2 Released

Using Alignment to Improve Your Designs

Alignment is one of those things that comes hand-in-hand when working with grid systems. The subject of alignment isn’t simply a matter of choosing whether or not you want to align text or images to the left or right of a design (though those decisions obviously still matter), instead, we employ alignment to improve our… Continue reading Using Alignment to Improve Your Designs

Create a Shaded, Stylized Text Effect in Photoshop

Typography and text effects are critical in today’s graphic and commercial design. Viewers are becoming more and more overwhelmed with daily information, and as a result they can inadvertently be conditioned to “filter out” messaging that isn’t truly distinctive. Stylized typography is an effective way to regain the attention and appeal that can otherwise be… Continue reading Create a Shaded, Stylized Text Effect in Photoshop

Typographic Readability and Legibility

When using typography on the web, there are many things to keep in mind in order to create a page that provides clear access to the content and presents it in a legible way. Typically this can be broken down into two buckets: Readability and Legibility. Readability refers to the way in which words and… Continue reading Typographic Readability and Legibility

Create Inspirational 3D Gold Text with Photoshop Extended

Preview of Final Results Step 1 Start by creating a new 1920×1200 pixels document. Select the Text tool and type in your inspirational text. The font we’re using is Bebas Neue and Pacifico. These fonts are free. Adjust the font size and leading to your likings. Use the Free Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd+T or Edit >… Continue reading Create Inspirational 3D Gold Text with Photoshop Extended

Quick Tip: Creating a Bazinga! Text Treatment in Adobe Illustrator

With this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a Bazinga text effect made famous by Sheldon from the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using some techniques to add multiple effects to a single shape, also duplicating and copying objects quickly, as well as creating a pattern and even rotating… Continue reading Quick Tip: Creating a Bazinga! Text Treatment in Adobe Illustrator

Create a Colorful, Lively Retro Text Effect in Photoshop

Plain type is rarely enough to achieve the strength and distinction that you want in your messaging. Most designers tailor their type to match their design and carry strong connotations. Text effects are amazing; you can really play with styles and techniques and convert anything boring into an art piece. So, today I am going… Continue reading Create a Colorful, Lively Retro Text Effect in Photoshop

Hades PSD Gui: Menus, tabs, sliders, buttons, icons, scrollbars, players, widgets, text elements.

This excellent gui pack with more than 1000 elements, can make your job easier and faster, all of this loaded with fully editable sources in psd. Moreover, there are 15 totally free icons that come in 20 different colors each, plus 30 seamless patterns. It’s time to take them all. Design Shock

jQuery Auto-Complete & Auto-Suggest Text Input

Ajax Autocomplete for jQuery allows you to easily create autocomplete/autosuggest boxes for text input fields. It was built with focus on performance – results for every query are cached and pulled from local cache for the same repeating query. If there are no results for particular query it stops sending requests to the server for… Continue reading jQuery Auto-Complete & Auto-Suggest Text Input

3D Chrome Text in Photoshop CS6 Extended

In today’s video, we’re going to be taking a look at creating a chrome text effect using the new 3D features within Photoshop CS6 Extended. We’re going to look at bring your text into the 3rd dimension, working with bevels, materials and reflections to create the end result. Note: The 3D features are only available… Continue reading 3D Chrome Text in Photoshop CS6 Extended

Quick Tip: How to Create a Metallic Text Effect Using Layer Styles in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a metallic text effect using layer styles in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Strasua Font Black Pattern Step 1 First of all install the .pat file named black_pattern_by_fluctuemos-d5mermc.pat. You have to double click the… Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Create a Metallic Text Effect Using Layer Styles in Photoshop

Create A Realistic Water Text Effect

Step 1 – The Background We will be needing a nice background to write out text in water on. You can pretty much pick whatever background you like as long as it suites your needs. I will go ahead and use scratched metal background. Feel free to download the image: Step 2 – Font &… Continue reading Create A Realistic Water Text Effect