Create a Cartoon-Style Graffiti Text Effect in Photoshop
Learn how to create graffiti text from scratch in Photoshop! This tutorial will show you how to use layer styles and finish the effect with a vector-style brick background.
Learn how to create graffiti text from scratch in Photoshop! This tutorial will show you how to use layer styles and finish the effect with a vector-style brick background.
This is how yours should look.

Create a new layer above the cloud layer and with a #FFFFFF soft round brush place some highlights around the cloud. Make sure the opacity on the brush is very low.

Go to your “Cloud copy” layer and place it underneath the original cloud layer and change the opacity of this layer to 27%. Also maneuver this layer a bit so that the shadow shows.

Create a new layer for the inner cloud grab a hard round brush of different sizes and create a cloud. I used the color #8cb809

Add these layer styles to this layer



Create a new layer and add some shine to this cloud layer with a small soft round brush. I used the smudge tool also to stretch out highlights

Now I will show you how to create the background. First Create a New Document

Grab your rounded rectanlge tool and make a rectangle. The color I’m using is #8cb809 Radius: 21px

Add a Stroke in the layer style panel

Make multiple duplicates of the brick. Note: Make sure to overlap the bricks so that there is no white background showing.

Create a new layer above the bricks and with a 60px #000000 soft round brush apply shadow to the bricks. Change this layer’s Opacity to 27%.

Go to Edit>Define Pattern and name it bricks, click ok. Go back to your graffiti document. Create a New Layer underneath your cloud layers. Fill this layer with #FFFFFF. Change this layer Fill to 0%. Add these layer styles


Create a new layer and randomly add highlights to the bricks. I used a soft round brush and the smudge tool to smooth it out.

Now for the light streaks. Create a New layer above your text and grab your pen tool. Prior to making your light streaks set your brush tool to 87px.

Once you have created the light streak with the pen tool, right-click the path>Stroke Path (make sure that the ‘Stimulate Pressure’ box is checked)

Add a Outer Glow


Create another light streak

Create a new layer and add some stars from the brushes you downloaded earlier.

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thanks a lot
very nice
nice tutorial,…thanks Ashlee!:)
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Nice one Ashlee….love graffiti as well..
good tut
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