In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to create simple 3D text in Photoshop. This is how it’s gonna look like when it’s finished:
So let’s begin. First create a new document size 350×150 (but you can use any size you want) and write some text on it. I have used the font “Impact”, 80 px, smooth.
Now we would like to rasterize this layer so go to Layer>Rasterize>Type.
After that’s over go to Edit>Transform>Perspective and move the upper left box up like this:
After you are done with that press Enter. Now duplicate your text layer and put it unde the original one. After you did that, select the layer you just created (located under the original one) and while holding Ctrl+Alt press the left arrow a few times until you get what you want. This is how it looks like now:
It looks terrible, doesn’t it? But don’t worry, we are going to fix it. Now merge all the layers you just created except the original one and go to Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast . Put the “Brightness” to -50 and press OK. It looks much better now:
And that’s it. But you can do a lot of stuff with this now. You can put different Blending Options to those layers. I have played a bit with mine and this is what I came up with:
If you want to know how I got this style you can download the .zip package including my .psd files.
I hope you liked the tutorial. Please don’t forget to say thanks and to rate our tutorial.
April 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am
hello dear,
i m very much impressed by ur talent and i want to request you i am making my website by my own and i want to wrtie the name in good style so plz if you have time then help me and i will be very thankful to you for this help.. u can reply on my email address
April 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
thanks,
but this tut is incomplete!!
you should tell us how did you do the last effect on the text, because that’s what is all about in this tut !!
April 21st, 2008 at 4:57 pm
great tutorial but how do you merge?
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
@ Luis Anderson: It is just a style which you need to download from the files I included.
@ anthony: You can merge by pressing CTRL+E .
May 13th, 2008 at 2:18 am
how can i do the last effect?
May 13th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Just add some blending options (you can get the style when you download the .psd of the tutorial)
May 26th, 2008 at 10:24 am
If u want the text effects..download the source file from above and right click the layer in the layers panel and select “copy layer style”. go 2 ur document, select the layer, right click it in the layers panel and choose “paste layer style”. HeyPresto..you have the layer effects =)
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
thanks
nice tut dude
December 4th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Thanks..I like this method..
December 19th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
great tutorial~~
thanks~
March 15th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Very nice and simple…for a beginner as me. Thanks!
Bravo!
Carla
May 4th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
fast and easy with good accomplishment. THX
June 30th, 2009 at 3:24 am
Interesting effect. Great work!