TUTORIAL: creating a carved metallic text effect

This tutorial teaches you a way to create an interesting carved metallic text. It's not easy to get even using the most expensive commercial graphic softwares.

Open this metallic text maker and set its interface items like this:
- Text: carved metal (set the text you need);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 5;
- Background color: FFFFA0;
- Font name: Bombardier.

Making this way, that's the result we get (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- this effect works well with most pastel background colors;
- always use this effect with thick font faces, mainly the strongly geometric ones, so the carved look gets better;
- there are many amazingly realistic metallic text styles at this set of free text effects.

Is there a text effect you would like to see here? You can ask for it commenting here or sending me an e-mail.

TUTORIAL: a text made using ice cubes

This time I tell you how to make an amazing text effect that looks like carved in ice cubes. It's not very usual and it can be very useful if you need something cold.

First you need to open this online ice text maker, so set its parameters like this:
- Text: ice cubes (type the text you need);
- Font size: Normal;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: 000020;
- Font name: Horseshoes And Lemonade.

Below you see the result image you get if you make as explained (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- of course I needed to choose a special font to generate this "cube appearance", but this effect can generate many astonishing kinds of ice texts, mainly is you choose a thick font face;
- you can play with other back colors, but usually dark blue backgrounds are the best for this style of graphic effect;
- you can create several realistic ice texts by using the effects from this free text generator.

Is there a text effect you would like to see here? You can ask for it commenting here or sending me an e-mail.

INSPIRATION: the best graffiti text effects

Graffiti effects are among the most colorful, impressive and eye catching text effects we can use. I'm very excited about this new online tool to generate many types of Graffiti Text.

This software is very very powerful, but it has a price. It has many items to configure if you want to have total control over the result image. Anyway, if you follow the tips in the renderer page, you will have a smoother learning curve. It's particularly true because some interface fields have similar meanings in several interface sections.

There is a page about graffiti texts generated using this software. There are many examples (with and without background) and most results are really interesting. This page is called The Best Graffiti Text Effects and it's really worthy to see.

If you like graffiti, or if you like colorful or 3D texts, probably you will feel inspired by this nice collection of graffiti text effects. Below I show you four examples of what you can see there.

TUTORIAL: a subtly illuminated text effect

You will learn how to get a blue text effect with subtle top down illumination. It can be very eye catching with no exaggeration at all.

Let's start by going to a free online text effect, so you should configure its interface this way:
- Text: Blue Sky (set your own text);
- Font size: Normal;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: FFFFFF;
- Font name: Comons.

So you get a text effect like this one (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- I prefer this effect with regular font faces (despite it's a good idea to use fonts with serif);
- if you don't care about losing the text shadows, you can increase the illuminated look by setting a dark background. Below there is an example with black back color;
- this set of free text effects has a huge amount of options to create lightened or glow texts.

Is there a text effect you would like to see here? You can ask for it commenting here or sending me an e-mail.

TUTORIAL: a great realistic golden dollar sign

This tutorial is about creating an amazingly realistic dollar sign made of gold. When we need this kind of stuff, silver and gold are the more used materials.

Make this one by going to this golden text generator and using it like I tell you below:
- Text: $;
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 5;
- Background color: FFFFFF;
- Font name: Arial.

Making this way, you get this nice result image:

Extra tips:
- to increase even more the "golden mood" use a proper yellow background;
- if you intend to try other font faces, beware: many fonts don't implement the dollar sign (it can be empty or a square, or even something more awkward);
- this text effects catalog has many professional golden text effects. You don't need design skills to use them.

Is there a text effect you would like to see here? You can ask for it commenting here or sending me an e-mail.