6 Different Ways to Make Your Text and Images Glow

By Tom Michaels posted in Web Design Tutorials on 24-09-2009

Sometimes we can just sit there and gaze at a finished project but the pizazz just isn’t there. You can liven up that project by intensifying the image or text with a glowing effect. It may just be the right thing for you. As you can imagine there are many different methods to make your text and illustrations glow. So we would like to share with you 10 tutorials that will walk you through their own steps to achieve some amazing effects that will give that ‘wow’ factor to your own design.

Flaming Hot Fire Text Effect [Tutorials]

By Tom Michaels posted in Fonts on 15-09-2009

Enhance your website and light that text on fire using a different techniques from photo manipulation to creating 3D text with fire coming from inside. The final outcome for each of these five fiery text effect tutorials will be different and adding your own tweaks can make it even more interesting.

You will find a fiery inferno of fire, a retro-looking burn in flames, beautiful text combined with photo manipulation, a glossy fire reflection, and a very realistic approach with Flames shooting out of 3D text and crackling background.

Create Amazing Fonts on Photoshop

By Tom Michaels posted in Fonts, Web Design Tutorials on 14-09-2009

Adobe Photoshop has endless possibilities for text effects and we’re always looking for different techniques to apply towards our own projects. With the holidays quickly approaching, it could help you create some pretty amazing text effects. You can use a similar background and general effect on the text itself, but sometimes even the position of light itself can make the difference between night and day.

5 Beautiful 3D Text Tutorials

By Tom Michaels posted in Fonts, Web Design Tutorials on 18-08-2009

We often forget the importance of the text style whether it is for print or web. Today, we would like to share with you five pretty cool tutorials showing you how to create 3D text effects.

Have you ever come across a design and wondered what techniques were used to come up with the end result? In some cases, if you miss a step, your design may greatly differ from the one you tried to replicate. On the other hand, experimenting with the features of the application you use can result in a masterpiece.