By Diana Day  ·  March 7th, 2013

Create your own digital chalkboard signs from scratch with this companion to Diana Day’s “Chalk It Up” tutorial in the March/April 2013 issue.

By Larry Becker  ·  January 23rd, 2013

As a companion to Larry’s January/February article, he shows you how to manipulate perspective with a fantastic text effect.

By Diana Day  ·  January 18th, 2013

Diana details an alternate method for creating a typographic portrait, and includes links for text generation websites.

By Diana Day  ·  January 18th, 2013

Spice up your typographic portrait with a splash of color in this companion article to the “Put Your Stamp on It” tutorial in the January/February 2013 issue.

By Diana Day  ·  January 18th, 2013

Get a Pop Art look for your typographic portrait with this companion article to the “Put Your Stamp on It” tutorial in the January/February 2013 issue.

By Karen Brockney  ·  October 17th, 2012

If you love vintage stationary and boxes with glittery gold trim, Karen shows you how to create a similar, digital effect.

By Dave Cross  ·  July 27th, 2012

Dave demonstrates how to make type appear ‘distressed’ and grungy against a nice, brick background.

By Liz Ness  ·  July 12th, 2012

Since spring and summer are such big wedding seasons, Liz shows you how to create a simple wedding announcement postcard.

By Mike Rodriguez  ·  June 28th, 2012

Feeling frustrated with the text-on-a-path tools in Elements 10? These tips will help get you back on course.

By Diana Day  ·  January 28th, 2012

When a picture just isn’t enough, learn how to use Wordle to create complex word clouds and then customize them in Elements.

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  September 2nd, 2011

Matt shows you how to create your own Word Cloud with the website Wordle and place it on an image.

By Wendy Williams  ·  October 21st, 2010

There are many ways to create text effects using Elements; this one uses an adjustment layer mask.

By Corey Barker  ·  September 16th, 2010

Corey shows us how to create a cool text effect with a few simple steps and a wall of words.

By Dave Cross  ·  June 7th, 2010

Dave shows a number of ways to get a textured look to text when working with multiple type layers.

By Corey Barker  ·  May 17th, 2010

Corey takes one texture and creates a design that makes it look like he used several.

By Corey Barker  ·  April 26th, 2010

Corey takes one texture and creates a design that makes it look like he used several.

By Corey Barker  ·  January 4th, 2010

Corey shows you how to make a very interesting logo effect from just one file.

By Dave Cross  ·  August 10th, 2009

Dave shows you how to make a catchy background using text and the cookie cutter tool.

By Diana Day  ·  June 16th, 2009

Links and downloads for creating your own word art designs.

By Wendy Williams  ·  June 16th, 2009

There are lots of different ways that you can use word art and I thought it would be great to share some of the ways that you can create it. It is not too difficult, and once you have mastered…