In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial we will make a funny cartoon text effect, I hope you like it.

First type in the text you want to apply this effect to, remember to use a very bold text, and with some soft edges will also help.

I used a font called "showcard gothic" which gives me a great effect.

Now go to the layers panel and double click the text layer to get to the layers styles panel and give it the following settings.

For the pattern overlay, you will need to create a pattern first or download a photoshop pattern and import it the your photoshop patterns, just do some google search for photoshop stripe pattern and you will find some good free photoshop patterns.

Now we will make the glossy effect at the top of every letter.

Hold down ctrl and click the letters layer in the layers panel to load the shape selection. Then with the elliptical selection tool make sure to choose the selection mode "intersect with selection" and drag a selection as shown below.

Then you should end up with a selection looking like this.