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I have stumbled upon a Photoshop tutorial which I personally like the effect very much after creating a collage of photo from one picture. This tutorial requires many steps to get it done. If you are beginner of learning Photoshop, I believe that you might take longer time to learn the step. P/s: The picture of Drake Bell is directly picked from createblog.com.

Do you know how to create a Mac-Type background in Photoshop? Frankly speaking I’m learning now. I like the tutorials provided by psdtuts.com because their tutorials are neat, clean and easy to understand. I was thinking that after I know how to create a Mac-Type background, I will create my own wallpaper according to my needs. Yeah!

Hehe! I found 51 text effect tutorials which I think it is very useful for web and graphic designer. Although I’m not a web or graphic designer, but I also want to learn these tutorials because I’m interested in web design. The text effect tutorials that caught my attention to learn are Worn Rubber Stamp Text, Web 2.0 Sticker Text Effect, Shiny Floor Effect and Transparent GLass Lettering.

I found a link which listed 60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials for text effects, movie techniques, vector effects, photo retouching, photo manipulation, web buttons or interface elements, digital coloring and digital painting. Please note that these tutorials are not suitable for beginner and they require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop.

Learn how to create an ordinary twirl using filter in Photoshop CS.

1. Create a new file and choose two colors that you like.

2. Use the brush tool, draw lines as in the image as per image below.

3. Select Filter > Distort > Twirl, the twirl window will open. Give the angle settings as 999 (maximum) and click OK.

Brush Tool

Just follow the 6 steps as below to create shiny starburst effect using photoshop.

1. Create a new file and press D to set the default background and foreground color. Press Alt + Backspace to fill the black color. Right click the current layer and choose Duplicate Layer in order to create another layer.

2. Select the Gradient Tool from the toolbar, place the cursor at the bottom of the canvas, click and drag it to the top of the canvas. Now you can see the black and white gradient filled.

3. Go to Filter > Distort > Wave. (set Number of Generatos=10; Type=Square)

4. Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates. No need to change anything, just click OK button.

5. Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Check the Colorize option, change the setting to Hue (200), Saturation (25), and Lightness (0).

6. Go to Filter > Lender > Lighting Effect and set the light type to Omni, let other setting to be default.

My friend has given me an example of the picture and asked me about how to make the text look like transparent in the picture just like picture that she showed to me. Although it is not exactly 100% same as the picture that she showed to me, but I think as long as the feel is there already good enough, more or less there are same.

Before I start to write down the steps, just take a look on this picture. This picture is snapped at Genting Highland in Kuala Lumpur, it seem like dinosaur which engraved on the stone. To me, it is an good art. OK, let get started how to create text with Bevel and Emboss Style as below.

1. Open an picture by clicking File > Open
2. Choose Horizontal Type Tool (T) and type your text on the picture.
3. Right Click the Text Layer that you have type just now, Choose Blending Option. (Layer Style dialog box will be displayed)
4. Tick Drop Shadow option (you can do any adjustment on the shadow based on your requirement)
5. Tick Bevel and Emboss, please refer to the following adjustment on the layer style (refer arrow), then click OK after finish.
Style: Emboss
Depth: 700%
Size: 5px
Soften: 2px
Shadow Mode: Multiply (You can change your desired color here)

6. In the selected Text Layers panel, there is a drop down menu on the top right of the panel, this is used to set the opacity for the layer, now set the Opacity to 50-60%. Done!