20 Amazing Free Photoshop Text Effects with Tutorials!

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Photoshop is truly an amazing tool and these 20 beautiful free Photoshop text effects will prove just that! Typography is an important part of a design and by using cool text effects, you will make catch the viewers’attention. To make things easier for you, we selected 20 awesome and free Photoshop text effects with tutorials and free, downloadable files! Get them now and add your own texts!

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Dripping Honey on Toast

This tutorial will show you a simple way of modifying a toast stock photo, and using a couple of Layer Styles with some useful tricks, to create a golden honey-on-toast inspired text effect.

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

In this tutorial, you’re going to create a 3D Typography based design. All the elements will revolve around the centerpiece and theme: dreaming.

Sports Center Style

This tutorial will show you how to create your own “Sports Center” inspired graphics using Photoshop CS6’s 3D capabilities.

Delicious Bagels

This tutorial will show you how to use the powerful Layer Styles’ capabilities in Photoshop, along with a couple of brushes and filters to create some delicious-looking bagels.

Glittering Red and Melting Ice

This tutorial will explain how to use multiple Layer Styles to create a velvety glossy glittering red text effect.

Candy

This tutorial will guide you throughout the process of creating a candy text effect in Adobe Photoshop.

Making a Fruity Text Effect

This tutorial will show you how to use some kiwi stock images to create an awesome kiwi-inspired text effect.

Create Smoke Photoshop Text Effect

You’ll be mixing type and a smoke image to create a really nice abstract wallpaper. This is a quick tutorial.

Liquid 3D type

In this tutorial, you’ll generate a 3D type, apply realistic materials and lighting, and polish it in Photoshop.

Electrified Text Effect

In this tutorial, you will be guided through the steps to design an electrified text effect in Photoshop.

Wood Inlay

In this Photoshop tutorial you’ll learn how to create a wood inlay effect using wood textures, layer masks and a few creative selection techniques.

Cookie Bite

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to design a simple cookie-bite text effect in Photoshop.

Dramatic Text on Fire

Flames are particularly hard to render in Photoshop, but in this tutorial you’ll learn how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match.

Scrabble Tiles

This tutorial will show you how to create your own scrabble tiles set from scratch, so that you can use them anytime with any background you like.

Colorful Wooden 3D

In this tutorial, you’ll be taught how to use Cinema 4D to create wooden 3D text and then how to use Photoshop to add the final touches.

Create 3D Rubber and Glass Text

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the vector editing and 3D capabilities of Photoshop to create rubber and glass 3D text.

Fresh

This tutorial shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools. The key is to create the letters in a 3D package first as individual characters, then bring them into Photoshop for further post work. Learn how in this tutorial.