30 Free Smart PSDs to Help You Create Easy Text Effects

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1. Very cool, thank you for your constantly gorgeous work and thanks a lot for sharing!

   • Unfortunately the download link for the RETRO TEXT EFFECT is broken. Would love to have it fixed.
     Thank you so much,
     Susanne

     • Thank you for the heads up, I’ve just fixed the link!

2. Thank you for these! I am an old school designer just learning about smart objects and the power behind them – these are great for practicing!!

   • I’ve always just Smart Object solely for being able to scale an element back up without affecting its quality, but as these resources show, they can do so much more!

3. Very cool colleague, it is great to find people who work similar to what I am doing. Thanks for all the inspiration.

4. Why isn’t there a “Download All” option??

   • Looks like they are mostly linked elsewhere and not hosted from here, so “all” probably not easily available.

5. super cool de partager tou ca mxi ca m sera due utilite enorme

6. Wow, you are so awesome and generous.. These are just wonderful, thanks so much.

   • Thanks Bonnie, but credit has to go to the generous people who made these effects. I’m merely the messenger!

7. I can’t figure out how to work these and I’m sorry if this is a basic question. I downloaded the “Cinematic Title Effect” as an experiment. If i click on the red upper layer in the PSD I get several messages about how I don’t have the same font. That’s ok since I can bypass those and change the font to whatever I like but doing that simply opens up a separate PSD file with the fonts and no matter what I do, the fonts on that PSD don’t apply to the whole thing. The “Effects” group and the “Shadow” group have well over 50 different layers collectively so they would all have to change at the same time. How can I get the upper layer changed text to apply to all the other layers? Thanks for your help.

   • All these files will have a highlighted Smart Object layer that requires editing. Double click the thumbnail of this layer to edit its contents. Once you’ve changed the text in the Smart Object file, save and close it, which will return you back to the main PSD with all the text and effects automatically updated.

8. Bless you sir.

9. I don’t see anything to download, nothing but a blank space.. I use Firefox and tried Chrome but see nothing but a blank space with both browsers … is this for members only?

10. Thanks for all! lovely post and sources.

11. I am really digging the unique design of the site. But I am failing to see the main selling category. All images and Icons, Photoshop downloadables. And beyond that what’s the focus?Don’t get me wrong I love what youre doing here man.

    -Andrew

12. You are the best “Spoonie!” (I call you Spoonie) :-)

13. now I see… it was ad muncher blocking me from seeing anything… thanks Chris for sharing!

14. Thank you – I really appreciate your round-up-of-resources blogs!

15. thx Nice PSD text footage !

16. Thanks for all!

17. I’m constantly learning of the virtues of Smart Objects! They make PS worthwhile – as if it needed another reason! LOL
    Thank you for sharing these!
    Su

18. Thanks for the list. I have a need to complete a retro project and a few of the examples above will help out a ton!

19. Wow, they are looking great, thanks for sharing.

20. Way cool!

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