A Cool Looking 3D Style

8/8/2019 A Cool Looking 3D Style

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In this tutorial well create a cool looking 3D Style text effect.

Begin your work with creating a new file of12801024 px and 72 dpi.

Then we shall use the Rectangle Tool (U) to draw the background of the picture to be.

Set the next shown parameters for the made new layer by making a mouse click on this layer inthe layers palette. Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Gradients parameters:


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Using the Custom Shape Tool (U), try to represent the rays coming out of the central picturespart.


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Mark out the inside tops, applying the Convert Point Tool (holding on SHIFT button) and thenpress CTRL+T, while using Maintain aspect ratio for getting together the rays in a single pointon the central part of the picture.


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The layers parameters: Opacity 70%, Fill 0%

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay



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Create now a new layer (Create new layer) and select a standard brush of black color, BrushTool (B) (Opacity of10%) to dark out the pictures edges.


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Next we shall write the word STYLE, representing each letter on a separate layer.


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Select the parameterFree Transform>Skew for each letter, changing also their shape the sameway demonstrated next picture:

Merge down the layers containing the letters of the word STYLE. Its necessary in this case to


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press Ctrl button, mark out the corresponding layers and then press CTRL+E. We need after thatto represent a kind of train of the word STYLE. This time we shall hold on CTRL+Alt buttonswhile pressing several times the cursor button (on the keyboard).

Merge Down the multiplied layers, except the one from the top (the layers containing the STYLEword) in a single layer (press Ctrl button for accentuating the appropriate layers and then pressCTRL+E). Set the next parameters for the last layer weve got. Blending Options>GradientOverlay



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Blending Options>Stroke


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Merge Down the last layer with the demonstrated above parameters. Its necessary in this caseto create a new layer above the one we work with (Create new layer) and press Ctrl button tomark out both of the layers and only after that press CTRL+E.

On this layer we shall use the Burn Tool (O) to put some shadows on the voluminous parts of theletters.


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On the same layer we shall use the Dodge Tool (O) to draw several highlights.

Set the next shown parameters on the top layer containing the letters. BlendingOptions>Gradient Overlay



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Blending Options>Stroke


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Choose the Line Tool (U) to create the vertical lines of white color, showing the edges of

the voluminous letters.

Select the Pen Tool (P) now for drawing a band of black color, applying after that the

Convert Point Tool for making the appropriate corrections on its shape.


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The layers parameters: Blending Options>Gradient Overlay



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Using the last applied tools, its possible to draw one more band, like the one from nextimage:



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Its necessary to draw the third band too:


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Combine in a group all the layers containing those three bands (press Ctrl button to mark out thenecessary layers and then hold on the left mouses button while taking the marked layers onCreate a new group selection). Make a copy of the last made group and move off the layerseffects. After that we shall use the Free Transform option to displace the layers the same wayshown below:


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Merge down the group containing the black bands, representing the shadows and then pressCtrl+E. Make a click on the same layer on the bottom part of the layers panel on Add a Maskselection. Then apply the Brush Tool (B) of black color to erase the unnecessary parts of theshadows.

Create a new layer and select the above mentioned brush of white color to draw a kind ofornament like that one from the next image:


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The layers parameters: Blending mode-Overlay

Create a new layer again and use on it the same brush used before for drawing several moreelements of the same ornament, started at the beginning. The color is white.

Select the parameters from here for the layer: Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur


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Set the parameters from below for the same layer: Fill 50%


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Using the Pen Tool (P) and the Convert Point Tool by turn, its possible to represent three moreelements on the ornament, having the color#545E4E


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Finished!

A Cool Looking 3D Style

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