Free watercolour textures

I previous wrote a post on free jean textures. This time I will provide a collection of high quality free watercolour textures. These textures are real image of watercolour splodges. To download any of these textures, simply right click on the image and select ‘Save As’.










Text effect example 1

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple text effect using various blending options. I have created shiny text with a black outline for this tutorial.

Text effect example 1

Step 1


Open a new Photoshop document with the size 640 x 480 dimensions. Then select the horizontal text tool and type your message on the canvas. I have used Arial font for my text effect, but you can choose whatever kind of font you wish.



Step 2

Select Layer > Layer Style > Blending options and add the following settings for each style. The first option you need to check is the ‘Drop Shadow’. I have left this option with the default values.

Check the ‘Inner Shadow’ option and change the opacity to 30%, the distance to 10, and the size to 2 PX.



Check the ‘Bevel and Emboss’ option and change the depth to 110% and the size to 10 PX.



Check the ‘Color Overlay’ option and change the colour to #f00000.



Check the ‘Stroke’ option and change the size to 2px and the colour to #000000.



You should get the following text effect.