Tuesday, June 29, 2010

TUTORIAL : a killer golden style text

If you make a page about the Oscar, the Grammy or even about a big party in your city, you need a suitable font for your banner or header.

The point is: a super event deserves a super announcement, so you need a special text effect. Probably one of the best ideias is to use an effect to create a soft, shiny, golden like, eye catching text.

Go to this free text effect to do that, and configure it this way:
- Text: Oscar 2010 (I used this text as example, you choose yours);
- Font size: Normal;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: FFFFFF;
- Font name: Ellipsoideogram.

So you get this result (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- I think this effect works better with thick font faces;
- you can try many other golden text effects by going to this text generator catalog.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

TUTORIAL : creating a stylized neon text

After showing you many examples about what can be done, now let's start our tutorials and ideas about using text effects effectively.

The goal here is to get a text with stylized strong brightness, looking similar in some way to neon lamp texts.

To make this graphic by yourself, go to this free text effect and configure it like shown below:
- Text: NEON (I used this text as example, you choose yours);
- Font size: Normal;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: it can not be used for this text effect in particular;
- Font name: ZeroGirl.

So you get an image like this:

Extra tips:
- if you wanna change this effect configuration, it's a better idea to choose a thick font face;
- you can try many other glow text effects by choosing from this text generator catalog.