Create Stunning Text Effects in Adobe Illustrator
https://www.skillshare.com/classes/How-To-Create-Custom-Camouflage-Patterns-in-Photoshop/984464953
In the following class, you will learn how to use an existing font, use Illustrator's appearance panel, clipping masks, and pathfinder tools to create awesome text effects. If you want to add a fun, vector text effect to your portfolio, then get started now.

All but one of these effects is 100% editable so you can change the word and/or font and the effect will update immediately.

These techniques should work in all recent versions of Illustrator.