Ok, ok, I know I've already written a tutorial or two on how to make a nice, golden text effect. But again, I'm going to write for you a tutorial on how to make a simple gold text effect by using some layer styles, namely the Gradient Overlay layer style!

In this quick Photoshop tutorial we'll be recreating the 'Bee movie' text effect, you know, the one you've seen all over the place over the last few months?
You can see what we'll be designing with this tutorial in the below image.

Learn how to combine the pen tool and the type text tool, combined together you can type text on a path.

Learn how to create an electric style text effect. Great way to spice up the look of your text.

Glitter Text : The Photoshop Steps
Step One: New Canvas
open a new canvas (File, New or Ctrl+N). The one I'm working with is sized at 400 x 250 pixels, with a white background.

Step One: New Canvas
Open Photoshop and create a new canvas that is sized about 300 x 300 pixels. You can always make the text smaller later - work large and keep your quality.

1. Create a new document (400*120).
2. Fill the background with #FFFFFF using the paint bucket tool.
3. Add an inside 1px #000000 stroke on the background layer using the bleding options (layer - layer style - blending options).

In this tutorial, you will learn to create golden text effect in very easy way.

Recently, I made this poster for a small Belgian music festival.
For the "Jachtival" type, I used a simple but effective technique to simulate 3D-text, wich I'll explain to you because it's fast and I use it for a lot of things.

Send your girlfriend her name in diamonds using this easy to follow tutorial.