TUTORIAL: generating a luxurious text effect

Sometimes you can need to make a title or header for a very exclusive and/or expensive product, brand, service, etc. After golden and silver colors, probably the color that best resembles luxury is red. So you can use a shiny and realistic red metallic effect to get a killer result, can't you?

Go to this metallic text maker and set its parameters like this:
- Text: Luxury (type as you wish);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: FFFFFF;
- Font name: ESP.

It's the image we create (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- it works well because the chosen effect generates a text that looks like made with a very expensive material;
- always choose a beautiful regular font face when using this effect;
- it's easy to get astonishing text effects if you use this text generator catalog.

TUTORIAL: a discreet and yet effective text effect

Let's make something discreet today. In this post I tell you how to make a text effect that looks like simple, but has subtle features. It works well when you want a professional text without any exaggeration.

You can get this by using a text generator as told here:
- Text: Simple (type the text you want);
- Font size: Normal;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: FFFFFF;
- Font name: FancyPants.

So that's the produced result (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- if you try other fonts, choose complex (but not irregular) font faces to balance the more discreet effect;
- don't think this text effect is too simple. It has nice properties to make it pleasing to eyes: shadow, subtle illumination and a slight 3D border;
- you can create many simple or complex text effects text generator catalog.

TUTORIAL: a special colorful text effect

After getting some traditional texts in recent tutorials, let's make something more psychedelic. This time, I will tell you how to create a very colorful and unusual effect.

I suggest you use this text effect and put these parameters:
- Text: COLORS (type what you need);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: 000000;
- Font name: Horseshoes And Lemonade.

It generates this interesting result (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- making a very colorful text mixed with a very dark background usually is very showy and can be useful in several situations;
- I decided to make it with a holed font to be more stylistic and because this way it's more visible that the color transitions follow the font curves (it's important to make this effect special);
- you can create many cool text effects by starting from this text generator catalog.

TUTORIAL: how to make a 3D text that looks metallic

Usually, creating a 3D metallic text is not a very soft task, but, if we have the right tool, we can make it fast and easily.

You can do it if you go to this 3D text generator and set its parameters like this:
- Rendering style: select the fourth option image;
- 3D model: select the fourth option image (roll the list);
- Text: metallic (type want you need);
- Font size: Big;
- Text depth: 20;
- Draw shadow: Yes;
- Margin: 15;
- Background color: FFFFFF;
- Front face color: FF8040;
- Depth dark color: FFFFFF;
- Depth bright color: FF0000;
- Font name: Amerika Sans.

The result is shiny just like metallic materials usually are (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- it's important to choose a very rounded font face;
- if you paid attention to this tutorial, you realized that I put a bright color in the "Depth dark color" field and a darker color in the "Depth bright color" field. In this case, it's a trick to get a brightness configuration similar to metallic ones;
- as you could see, this very easy and powerful 3D text maker lets you set the rendering style, 3D model, color squeme, choose from more than 400 nice font faces and make some other useful configurations; everything with no math skills.

TUTORIAL: a convincing ice text

I will teach you how to create a very eye catching ice effect. No matter it's easy to create, the result is impressive.

We just have to go to this ice text maker and configure it that way:
- Text: MY ICE (you choose yours);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: 003060;
- Font name: Liquidism part 2.

So we get this nice graphic text (click to view in full size):

Extra tips:
- this font helps a lot in this case because of its liquid appearance, but I already got nice results using this effect with other font faces;
- I think this dark blue back color improves the "frozen looking", but a black background is a good choice too;
- you can get several realistic ice text styles by using the effects at this text generator catalog.

TUTORIAL: creating a safari text

Today we will create a safari text effect. This kind o subject is difficult to represent in a text, but this effect is really perfect for that.

To make this one, use this free text creator and fill the interface like this:
- Text: Safari (choose your text);
- Font size: Normal;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: A5D0A5;
- Font name: DomoAregato.

It's the result we were looking for:

Extra tips:
- if you try other fonts, don't choose a very regular one. A too regular face doesn't fit this kind of effect;
- there are other good green tones to use as background color. You can even choose some other hues, if you configure a suitable saturation level;
- it's possible to generate several impressive "nature style" text effects by choosing from this text generator catalog.

TUTORIAL: generating an impressive volcanic text effect

Now I show you how to create an attractive, eye catching, volcanic style text. It's very suitable when you want to create an interface with a hot mood.

It can be done taking advantage of this free text generator with these parameters:
- Text: VOLCANIC (type the text you need);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: 000000;
- Font name: 2Tech.

So we get this nice graphic effect (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- you could like to try a not so regular font, but this effect gets better with font faces that are not too thick;
- you can get many "fire related" text effects by using the graphic tools listed at this text generator catalog.

TUTORIAL: a smoke text effect

This time I will show you how easy is to create a nice smoke text effect. Depending on the set configuration, the result can be very interesting. For this example in particular, we will generate smoke with low dispersion level.

To make that effect, you need to go to this free text creator and choose the renderer parameters like this:
- Smoke Style: 4;
- Text: Smoke (you type yours);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 4;
- Background color: 000000;
- Font name: Nosfer.

It's the effect we get (click for full size viewing):

Extra tips:
- by its own nature, smoke mixes (fades) with the background, so the back color you choose has a big influence in the final effect you get;
- if you would like to make a different kind of smoke, this smoke text generator has several useful rendering styles to choose from.

TUTORIAL: a blood text effect

Today we will create a nice text made of blood. The result is really very interesting.

We can get this effect by using this free text maker configured this way:
- Text: wound (set the text you want);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: 000000;
- Font name: SF Gushing Meadow SC.

The final image is shown below (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- using this font face is very important to get a realistic result, because it helps to create a dripping appearance;
- it's possible to produce many amazing text effects by using the tools offered at this text generator catalog.

TUTORIAL: getting a transparent 3D text

Sometimes we need a text that attracts attention but is discreet at the same time. In this case, one useful option can be to make a transparent 3D text.

To make this text by your own, you can use this free 3D text generator and set it this way:
- Rendering style: select the first option image;
- 3D model: select the 4th option image (scroll the list);
- Text : transparent (type yours);
- Font size: Big;
- Text depth: 20;
- Draw shadow: No;
- Margin: 15;
- Background color: FFFFC0;
- Line color: 600000;
- Font name: 11S01 Black Tuesday.

That's the image we get (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- you can try other background colors, but this effect usually gets better with a bright background;
- this kind of text uses very few colors, but anyway it can be very stylized if you choose a suitable font face;
- you can make many amazing 3D texts by using this 3D text generator. It's simple and easy.