TUTORIAL: a text made of water pools

Here you see a nice way to create a realistic water text effect. It's like if the letters were made of water pools on the floor.

The easy way to create it is opening this free online text effect and configuring it like below:
- Text: WATER (set as you wish);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 5;
- Background color: FFFFFF;
- Font name: Gravel.

Making like this, you receive this result (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- the trick here is to use an effect created to be a glass effect to generate this water text;
- in this case, thick font faces give better results;
- of course, using a very irregular font face here is very important to give the liquid mood;
- generate many beautiful text effects by using this set of free professional 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.

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All these professional text generators have great advanced features like:

- very realistic results;
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- several different 3D text styles;
- great control over the text shadow;
- more than 450 great font faces;
- optional transparent result image.

As told above, the rendered texts can have transparent background (and semi-transparent shadow), so you can use then to create any kind of image composition you can imagine.

Below I show you an example about what can be made using these new professional 3D text effects (click the image for a full size viewing):

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TUTORIAL: making a cracked 3D text effect

We have already created several nice 3D text effects here. This one is not only 3D, but it's cracked too.

Generate it very easily by opening this free online 3D text maker and configuring its items like informed:
- Renderin style: 2nd item;
- 3D model: 2nd item;
- Text: cracked;
- Font size: Big;
- Text depth: 20;
- Draw shadow: Yes;
- Margin: 15;
- Background color: FFFFA0;
- Front face color: FF8000;
- Line color: 000000;
- Depth color: A00000;
- Font name: Gastada;

After calculating the text effect, you get this result (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- you need a special font to create the cracked appearance and that text creator has other fonts that are useful for this;
- I didn't use this rendering style by chance; for me, it's the one that turns the cracks more visible;
- you can create many eye catching 3D text effects by employing this free professional 3D text maker.

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 nice steel text effect

This tutorial intends to show you how to make an interesting 3D metallic text made of steel.

You can create it by going to a online metallic text effect and setting its interface with these values:
- Text: metallic (choose your text);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 5;
- Background color: C0E0FF;
- Font name: Bombardier.

If you made as explained, you generated this image (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- as usual for metallic effects, a regular font face is a better choice;
- don't select a thin font face, or you will get a dark final text. Besides that, usually this effect produces a stronger 3D look when you use it with a thick font;
- generate dozens of amazing metallic text effects by using this big amount of free online 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 supernatural text effect

It's time to try something less usual. Let's create a text effect with a supernatural mood.

To generate this one by yourself, open this free online text maker, so use these values there:
- Text: ghost (choose your text);
- Font size: Normal;
- Margin: 5;
- Background color: 000000;
- Font name: TroglodyteNF.

If you made as suggested, you got a result text as shown below (click to enlarge):

Extra tips:
- a dark back color turns the effect glow more evident, what is desired in this case;
- for our purpose here, it's a better move to use a thick font, because it helps to improve the supernatural appearance;
- generate other unusual text effects by trying this software focused on creating professional 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.