Continuing on with the Photos within Type tutorial series, here's another fun effect to create: grungy type.

One of the most requested features has finally made it to Photoshop with the release of Photoshop CS.

Tricks for Fonts!

A great feature in Photoshop CS is the linguistic support and advanced tpyographic control through the use of OpenType fonts.

Learn some handy tricks and keyboard shortcuts for working with type inside Photoshop, like how to quickly select words, lines and paragraphs, how to easily switch between fonts, how to quickly access bold and italic font styles, leading, tracking and kerning, resizing, aligning and justifying text, and more!

Create soft lightning cubes around your type

This will produce a simple way to bevel your text.

Here is a way to make some very rough metallic text.

create rusted type in Photoshop

Awesome type effect!

create engraved type in Photoshop

The ability to flow text along user-defined paths may sound a relatively minor feature, but the creative capabilities it opens up are well worth it, and reduce the need to rely on Adobe Illustrator even further!

Convert type to a shape and use the "Exclude overlapping shape areas" option to create a cool text effect.

News Type Logo

This detailed tutorial covers everything you need to know about text, from simple preset tools to complex warps, and more!

Ever wonder how designers are able to place an image inside text?

One such question came in yesterday concerning curved type reflected off a surface. Once I wrapped my brain around it the answer was/is very simple, so we'll tackle it here.

Blend textual elements into folding textures seemlessly.

Brushed metal is always a cool effect to pull off in Photoshop. And after you've created your steel texture, what better place to use it than to produce beveled steel type?

How do you do the 3d looking text like on the Superman logo?