Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

VEry stylish 3D text

Create a cool 3D text Effect like these:

Create a blank document of the desired size.

Type your text in black on a white background.

I used a pixel font (thus the cool X) but you can use any font you want.

You have to apply a bunch of layer styles (right click text layer and choose blending options):

Drop Shadow:

Outer Glow:

Inner Glow:

Gradient Overlay:

You might to change some of the values to achieve a different outcome of the 3D text.

The text will look something like this now:

Right click the text layer and choose Rasterize.

Hit CTRL-T and choose Warp or Perspective and distort the text any way you want.

I used Warp and came up with this:

Alright, now hold down ALT and start pressing left and down repeatedly until you are satisfied with the 3D effect:

Click Image --> Flatten Image.

If you want to colorize your image hit CTRL-U and pick a nice color like this:

If you want the fiery color for you 3D Text do this:

Go to Image --> Mode --> Grayscale

then Image -->Mode --> Indexed Colors

and finally Image -->Mode --> Color Table and choose Black Body

There you go. your 3D text: