Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Awesome, FAUX 3-D Text

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I've done many tutorials showing how to

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use the 3d filter in Photoshop to create

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the look of powerful effective 3d images

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in this tutorial I'm going to show you

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how to create the look of 3d text with

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deep shadows and bright deflections

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without using the 3d filter we'll begin

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by creating a new document press ctrl n

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on Windows or command n on a Mac give

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your document to name and make its width

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1550 pixels its height 870 pixels and

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it's resolution 300 pixels per inch the

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color mode is RGB and 8 bits per channel

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click the small box to open the color

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picker in the brightness field type in

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five percent and click OK on both

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windows

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click the new layer icon to make a new

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layer will fill the empty layer with

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black to do this press Shift + the f5

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key at the top of your keyboard to open

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the fill window open the flyout list

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click black and click OK

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change the blend mode to screen

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go to filter render and lens flare make

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the brightness 125 percent and the lens

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type 50 to 300 millimeter zoom drag the

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lens flare approximately here in the

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preview window and click OK

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click the icon at the upper right of the

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layers panel and click convert to smart

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object the reason for this is so we can

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adjust change or remove the effects that

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we'll be adding to it go to filter blur

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and Gaussian blur

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make the radius 90 pixels

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and click OK or press Enter or return

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we're ready to set our text

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open your horizontal type tool and pick

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a font i'm using agency FB regular if

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you'd like to use it I provided its link

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in my video's description or project

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files I'll make its size a hundred

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points but you may want to adjust this

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amount based on the font you choose and

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the amount of characters in your text

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the aliasing is sharp and the alignment

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is centered click the color box

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in the brightness field type in thirty

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five percent then click OK

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click on your document and type at your

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text to Center it on your document click

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your move tool and press ctrl or command

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a

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click the align horizontal centers icon

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and the align vertical centers icon then

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deselect it by pressing ctrl or command

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D since we'll be adding deep shadows to

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the bottom of the text let's slide the

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text up a bit by pressing the up arrow

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on your keyboard approximately this much

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convert the text into a smart object

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click the FX icon and click bevel &

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emboss

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make the style inner bevel the technique

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chisel hard and the depth a hundred

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percent make the direction up and the

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size 3 pixels make the angle 135 degrees

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and the altitude 50 degrees

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the highlight mode is screen with an

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opacity of 75% the shadow mode is linear

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burn and its opacity is also 75% then

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click OK

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make the lens flare active and may

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copy of it by pressing ctrl or command J

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drag the copy above your text layer and

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hide its blur filter

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presently the lens flare is showing

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through the text and the background

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however we want it to show only through

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the text and not the background to do

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this will make the lens flare copy into

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a clipping mask which will clip it to

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the one layer below it which is the text

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to do this press ctrl alt G on Windows

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or command option G on a Mac

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next we'll begin the process of making

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the deep three-dimensional shadows

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ctrl-click or command click the

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thumbnail of your text to make a

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selection of it

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hide the text layer

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and make layer 1 active click the new

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layer icon to make a new layer above the

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active layer in this empty layer will

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fill the selection with black open the

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fill window it remembers the last fill

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content which was black so just press

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Enter or return then deselect it

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next we'll create an action to build our

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deep shadow

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open your actions panel if you don't see

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it go to window and actions click the

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icon on the right and click new set name

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it shadows and click OK or press Enter

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or return

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immediately a new action set was added

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to your actions panel click the icon

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again and this time click new action the

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new action window will pop up click the

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record button now every step you'll do

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will be added to this action it doesn't

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record the time between your steps it'd

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only be Cotts the steps themselves so

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take your time the first step in your

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action is to make a copy of layer 2

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which is the selection of our texts that

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we filled with black press ctrl or

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command J to make a copy of it

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double click the copy to open its layer

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style window click drop shadow

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the blend mode is multiply and the

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opacity is a hundred percent uncheck

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global light and make the angle 135

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degrees the distance is two pixels and

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the spread and size is zero then click

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OK

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merge the layer to copy with layer 2 by

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pressing ctrl or command e

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then click the stop button to stop

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recording your actions click the action

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to make it active and click the play

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button each time you click the play

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button it will add two more pixels to

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the depth of your shadow I'll click it

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approximately 30 times to make a solid

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shadow this deep

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let's rename this layer 3d shadow make a

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copy of it by pressing ctrl or command J

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name the copy blur shadow and reduce its

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opacity to sixty percent make your text

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layer visible but keep your blur shadow

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layer active go to filter blur and

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Gaussian blur

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blur it 10 pixels and click OK

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drag the blurred

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down and to the right next I'll show you

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how to change its colors

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scroll to the top and make your top

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layer active click the adjustment layer

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icon and click color balance

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there are three tonal ranges shadows

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mid-tones and highlights within each

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tonal range there are three color bars

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that show the color changes for the red

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green and blue channels by dragging a

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slider towards a color you'll increase

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that color in the image

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have fun experimenting with various

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color combinations in all three tonal

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ranges until you get the look you want

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this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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thanks for watching