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Have fun with this and stay away from Kryptonite! Up, Up and away!Īll the CS6 information and more is available as a PDF magazine called the CS6 Superguide. Tip: To add shadows with the airbrush tool, click, hold down the shift key, and click again to draw a straight line. I very quickly (took about 20 seconds) added some shadows with the airbrush tool, just to show you how it will look. Of course, if you take more time than I did, your results will be much cleaner! Using the eraser again, erase the junk and you should get something like this. Make it so that the edge of the selection is on the edge of the solid color, with the junk outside the selection. Tip: Holding down the shift key will move it faster.
Using the arrow keys on the keyboard, move the selection to the top right of the extrusion. Using the eraser tool with a medium sized hard eraser, begin to erase the extra junk at the bottom.īeautiful! Invert the selection again. This now protects the yellow type so we can clean up the edges on the red extruded layer. With the yellow type selected, click on the extruded layer to make it active. (Click the little eye icon to make it visable.Īdd a layer style: Color overlay = yellow and stroke = Black and 1 pixelĬtrl/Cmd click on the layer thumbnail to select the type layer. Lets see where we are: Show the original type layer on top. Keep going until the extrusion starts to look solid. (All this does is save us duplicating 20 layers.) Just to speed things up a bit, duplicate the blurred layer again and merge the 2 together again. Hide the original type layer and click merge visable. I used 80 pixels.ĭuplicate the layer 10 times. Set it for -45 degrees and set the distance for the depth of the extrude you want. Now, lets add the extrude: Filter>blur>motion blur.
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Render the type layer: PC right click/Mac Cmd click in the text in the layers palette and select, rasterize type. If you dont see it, select your type with the text tool. Open the warp text tool, it’s the little box in the toolbar with ABC written on it. Once everything is rendered, we have the final result, up, up and away!įor those of you on older versions of Photoshop, here is the older method. We need to render each layer, starting with the bottom one, then the top one (Hold down Cmd+Option+Shift+R, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R) You will now see our (almost) final result, but it’s looking a little block or choppy. Choose the first option (far left button) to choose the geometry.Ĭhange Extrusion Depth to 1 (0 will work, but product weird results when rendered) In the 3D panel choose the 2nd option for the mesh In the Layers Panel, choose the 3D text layer and Press Ctrl/Cmd+J to duplicate the layer. What to do? I have a sneaky little workaround for you here. So, you noticed that the black outline is around the entires shape, but not the text itself. Under the Properties panel, turn off Cast Shadows, make sure Catch Shadows is turned on though. If we go to render the text (Hold down Cmd+Option+Shift+R, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R) you will notice it looks weird, because its casting a shadow. We will add the stroke to the text before we are finished. We now see an outline around the whole shape. It’s starting to look good, but we still need to add the black outline around everythingĬhoose a layer style in the layers panel on our 3D text layer. We are looking to put some nice shadows in the top of the extrusion. You will now see the l fighting widget, Drag on the “stem” to change the lighting direction. In the 3D panel, click on the lightning button The color picker will open, choose hello as the color and click ok Go to the properties panel and clock the red box by diffuse For the most part, you will use the first option (selected)ĭrag the 3D tool until your text is positioned the way you like.Ĭhoose the 3D panel and select the materials button as shown These are the tools that you will use to manipular the text in 3D space. You will also have the option to switch to the 3D workspace. With the text selected, choose the Warp text from the top tool bar. We need to put a slight bend in the text. Select the First Character and make it larger than the others. Notice that I set the tracking to -10 because on the Superman text the letters are close together. So, in a way this is actually 2 tutorials, choose your poison! 3D Extruded Text in Photoshop Step 1Ĭreate some text, make the color red and set it in all caps, you a bold font. For those who are on Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop CC, I have a new tutorial for you right here. I am keeping that tutorial at the end in case you are running an older version of Photoshop than CS6.
I originally wrote this tutorial before Photoshop has any 3D features.
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In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to make 3D extruded text in the style of the Superman text effect.