Have you ever imagined making 3D text animation only using Adobe Photoshop CS3? Well, you have to know that you can make your sweet 3D text with Adobe Photoshop CS3 if you followi this Photoshop CS3 tutorial. Just changing the perspective of the text, you can make your own 3D text. The question is how to do that? Here is Photoshop CS3 tutorial to make sweet 3D text.

1.       First of all, you need to type the text that you want to give a 3D effect. Make sure that the foreground color is black. It is needed since the text for this tutorial will be black. Use impact for the font style. Well, you can use the other and the better custom font. Use a thick font would be better because it has more brush and shadows effect on the inside that could look really bad on a thin font.

2.       After finishing the first part, now you can rasterize the layer. It is needed to apply a perspective on the text. It could look like the 3D look that we want to make. Simply go to the layers palette and right click exactly in the text layer which should be the name of your text. Then choose rasterize type. Then, you can go to edit – transform – perspective. Do not forget to slide top left or top right squares to the inside. Adjust it to your own taste. Never slide it too far since it can look very weird.

3.       Select the layer and hold ALT key to duplicate the selected layer. It duplicates and moves the duplicated layer 1px to the direction at the same time with using the arrow keys. Do not forget to select your move tool. Hold ALT and press UP arrow key for 6 times. It gives you 6 duplicated layers.

4.       How about add the blending layer to your top layer? Right click top text layer then choose the blending options. You can adjust yourself, Shadow and glow would be good.

5.       Make the selection by hold CTRL key and left click to the thumbnail of the text layer. Click CTRL+SHIFT+N, set the foreground to black. Change the brush to a soft 150px brush and the opacity to 60%. Change the layer blend mode to overlay and the opacity to 74%.

6.       Now make the gradient layer. Select gradient tool and pick transparent gradient for the foreground. Using curve gradient would be a nice idea.

7.       Make adjustment layer icon and change the levels. Input level 4, 1.14, 227 could be great. Change the opacity to the 63%. You can also adjust the color if you want to.

8.       Enjoy your own sweet 3D text with Photoshop CS3!

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