Photoshop CS Fast make three-dimensional special effects text

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Environment support: Photoshop CS

Filters required: Gaussian blur, lighting effects

Three-dimensional text effects are often used in many design works, it is not only beautiful and eye-catching, by the majority of friends love. Below we will introduce a quick three-dimensional word effect method, which is mainly through the Gaussian blur and lighting effect two filters to achieve. Of course, the method introduced here is not necessarily the fastest, but can give beginners some inspiration, explore a faster way.

1. Start Photoshop CS, create a new canvas, use the Type tool to enter text, and then hold down the CTRL key, use the Move tool to click the text layer, load the selection, go to the Channel palette, click the "Save Selection as Channel" button at the bottom, and create a new text channel

2. Execute "filter → Blur → Gaussian blur" command, set "radius" to 4.2 in the Gaussian Blur dialog box, the effect is shown in Figure 1.

3. Return to the Layer palette, activate the text layer, perform the filter → render → lighting effect command, open the Lighting Effects dialog box, set the texture channel to alpha 1, and other parameters set as shown in Figure 2. and adjust the light direction.

4. The text has a slight stereo effect after performing the lighting effect filter, in order to make the effect more intense, while holding down the ALT key, click the arrow keys to copy the text multi-level, so that the text produces thickness, and finally cancel the selection, for the text layer to add a projection layer style, the effect as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 1 Fuzzy processing of text channels


Figure 2 The Lighting Effects dialog box


Figure 3 Final effect