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Free Striking Photoshop text effects (PSD download)

Today’s Photoshop freebie download is a set of unique text effects in Photoshop. Maybe, you might have seen several Photoshop text effects, but this set is unique in its style, and is very close to what the nature of the text represents the effect. So, download the PSD file and check out the various layer styles applied for each text to bring out the resultant effect.

If you are looking to learn about grungy metal, glass, water, clouds, fire, etc Photoshop text effect tutorials, you will find some by reading up on these tutorials. Try to play around with settings and colors on each of these to end up with your own look and feel. Hopefully you find something that inspires you, plus maybe a trick or two on how to do something a bit different from what you’re used to. Here the best Photoshop tutorials for making text effects.

This is a follow up to a post that was published a while ago called Top 30 Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials that you should also check out.

Create Stunning 3D Text in a Grungy Landscape

Great typography is a state of mind. It comes with experience and knowledge. You can gain a lot of knowledge (cut the learning curve) by going off of other's experience. One important way that you can do this is to just study typography (and graphic design) everywhere you see it; in print, tv, ads, brochures, flyers, posters, signs, entertainment packaging, billboards, books, the web, etc... And here are Top 30 Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials which might help you to get inspire and learn some tips. Enjoy!

Create a Funny Wooden Type Treatment in Photoshop