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September 10, 2006

Stylish Orange 3D Text.

Filed under: PhotoShop, Text Effects @ 7:52 am

Here you are going to learn how to make some stylish 3D Text like this:

STEP 1

Create your layer, you must select the background color as white (NOT TRANSPERENT)

Create a text box and type in your desired text in a bold font like Impact, use a nice orange, I used #ff9c00, make it pretty big. Now you need to Rasterize your layer (Layer > Rasterize > Type).

STEP 2

We are going to change the perspective. (Edit > Transform > Perspective).
Drag either of the top corners out until you have somthing like this:

STEP 3

Now duplicate the layer (Right Click Layer > Duplicate Layer) and move the layer under the previous layer. Change the Fill to around 50% and move the text slightly up so it’s like this.

STEP 4

Small step this one; draw a small rectangle or thick line underneath the text (to underline it) Make it the same color as the text.

STEP 5

Time to add a gradient, first we need to merge all the layers, click the little eye icon next to the ‘background’ Layer to make it dissappear. Then right click another layer and select ‘merge visible’. Now click the (now empty) eye box next to the background layer to bring it back.

You should now have 2 layers.
Go into the Blending Options of the layer with all the text on it, and select Gradient Overlay. Use the default black and white gradient. But set the blend mode to overlay, and the opacity to around 50%.

You should now have some nice-looking 3d text with a nice perspective

STEP 6 (Optional)

This is an optional step, I personally like it. Go into the Blending Options of the text layer and make a black stroke, fairly large (I used 6px).

If you need any help or have questions please leave a comment here!
I’d like to see your outcomes! Please post them here if possible :)

5 Comments »

  1. nice! :D

    Comment by Jocke — September 18, 2006 @ 12:20 pm

  2. easy, clean, cool. thanks for the great tutorial.

    Comment by cyndy — October 3, 2006 @ 1:56 pm

  3. alt up and u can make it look more 3d now its more like a shade

    Comment by san — November 16, 2006 @ 5:05 pm

  4. wow, looks like a gd easy to follow tutorial. Might have ta give it ago

    Comment by tribal — December 11, 2006 @ 8:01 pm

  5. nice tutorial!
    although i’m german (and my photoshop, too),
    I had no great probs to understand your tutorial!

    make more great stuff like this

    cya

    Stroh

    Comment by Strohhut — December 15, 2006 @ 2:03 pm

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