Creating 3D Type in Photoshop

Create 3D type in Photoshop, and learn about topics like extruding, inflating, beveling, and texturing type.

You don't need any 3D modeling experience to create 3D type in Photoshop. This course explains every step along the way. Steve Caplin starts with the basics: turning regular type into 3D type and then rotating it in 3D space. Subsequent topics cover extruding, inflating, beveling, and revolving type—all concepts that will help you work with other types of 3D objects. Steve uses glass-like type to illustrate the kinds issues you'll encounter with transparency, reflection, refraction, lighting, and shadows. You'll then create a 3D object from scratch, and place it on a photographic surface to produce a realistic 3D-modeled scene.

Introduction

• Welcome
• About the exercise files

1. Creating the Glass Type

• Turning type into 3D
• Manipulating the 3D object
• Extruding, twisting, tapering, and bending
• Beveling and inflating
• Editing type
• Changing the material properties
• Trying a render
• Creating a 3D postcard
• Merging the 3D layers
• Modifying the materials and partial rendering
• Adjusting the lighting
• Fixing the shadows
• Finishing touches

Conclusion

• Goodbye