This detailed step-by-step tutorial shows you how to create 3D text tutorial using only Photoshop default tools.This tutorial can be very useful to understand how highlights and shadows works.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a retro typography design, you will learn the basics of typography and shape making in photoshop CS3.

Serve up some glossy pink candy coated type. Delicious. We?ll create this snazzy effect with just one layer style.

Here?s a slick way to create 3-dimensional beveled aluminum text. For this tutorial you?ll need three sheets of aluminum, a circular saw and a buffer. Just kidding, fire up Photoshop. But that?s how good of an effect we?re talking about. Lets get started.

If you?ve ever wanted to turn your text into water, you?ve come to the right tutorial. I?m not a scientist or anything, so this may not be what water looks like when it?s transformed into letters. But it looks pretty cool, so lets give it a try.

Sweet glass type with just two layers. You?re gonna want to check this one out. This glass is so cool it gives off its own light. That?s what we?re going for in today?s tutorial, so lets jump into it.

Try this simple polished metal type effect. Subtle yet slick. In today?s text tutorial we?re giving our type a thin staggered bevel and semi-reflective surface, perfect for any occasion.

It?s dark. It?s dirty. It?s grungy metal goodness. Here?s a simple composition that we can bang out with just two layers (and a couple of adjustment layers).

It only takes a couple of layers to make realistic looking chrome type. It doesn?t get more bling than this. We?re going to use every layer effect known to man, twice, but the result is brilliant. Shall we?

Today we are going to make a tutorial on frosty text effect. While it?s still cold and wintry outside, I thought it would be high time to supply some more wintry text effects for our readers.