PS teaches you to draw the atmosphere cool 3D font effect

Effect Chart:

Break down this PS synthesis. It is not difficult to find the main body by a mottled background, PS two 3D three-dimensional text, from the top of the light and some light point decoration three components. And the difficulty of the whole synthesis is how to get a more realistic 3D text effect.

The logic here is to get a 3D text outline that fits the perspective principle and then add textures and effects to Photoshop to create an artistic pseudo 3D vision. Get 3D contour of a lot of methods, such as painting the basis of good students can hand-painted, using the AI in the 3D effect, Photoshop in the 3D

3D tools in Photoshop

There are a lot of ways to get 3D text, as you like.

Ok, get the outline of the 3D text and we can start to go into the core of this tutorial in the picture synthesis link.

Establish a background. Create a new canvas of the right size and place the background footage. Color the material, try to darken it and improve contrast.

Make the text, here the letter "P" as an example.

Paste the copied text from the AI into Photoshop and adjust the size and position.

Use the pen to tick out the inside area of the 3D text and apply the layer style to get the basic texture.

Effect as shown:

The other areas are doing the same. However, the layer demo should be adjusted according to the actual situation.

Draw 3D text with a pen based on the outline and give it the underlying texture with the layer style. Note that the shape layer is used here and the layer style is used to adjust because the properties here can be modified at any time. I think for the GUI or icon design friends, should be very clear.

The text is further decorated with a clipping mask.

Add a brightness Contrast adjustment layer, the overall brightness is lowered, a new layer of high light layer mixed mode for linear Dodge, a layer of dark layer blending mode is a multiply. The bright part uses the suitable soft angle brush, adjusts the flow and the transparency, absorbs a bright yellow to draw the light high light on the smooth surface, appropriate time may use the Gauss blur to be possible. Dark layer Instead, create shaded area.

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Create Shadows. In the previous AI copy over the letter file grid, Ctrl+u, brightness dimming to the darkest, get a black letter P, this is the basic element to do the shadow.

To copy several layers, note that this is turned into a smart object and then the Blur command under the Filter menu is applied. Then combine the masks to create shadows. Smart filters are used here because they can be adjusted over and over again for easy modification.

The effect is as follows:

The same is true for the processing of the letter S. However, multiple objects should pay attention to the occlusion relationship between them, so as to add some shadows.

Occlusion of the shadow.

Classification:

• PS Text Tutorial