Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I've done many tutorials showing how to use
the 3-D filter in Photoshop to create the look of powerful and effective 3-D images.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create the look of 3-D text with deep shadows
and bright reflections without using the 3-D filter. We'll begin by creating a new document.
Press Ctrl + N on Windows or Cmd + N on a Mac. Give your document a name and make its
Width: 1550 pixels, its Height: 870 pixels and its Resolution: 300 pixels per inch. The
Color Mode is RBG and 8 bits per channel. Click the small box to open the Color Picker.
In the Brightness field, type in 5% and click OK on both windows.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
We'll fill the empty layer with black. To do this, press Shift
+ F5 at the top of your keyboard to open the Fill window. Open the flyout list. Click Black and click OK.
Change the Blend Mode to "Screen".
Go to FIlter, Render and Lens Flare.
Make the Brightness: 125% and the Lens Type: 50-300mm Zoom.
Drag the lens flare approximately here in the preview window and click OK.
Click the icon at the upper, right of the Layers panel and click "Convert to Smart Object".
The reason for this is so we can adjust, change
or remove the effects that we'll be adding to it. Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur.
Make the Radius: 90 pixels and click OK or press Enter or Return. We're ready to set
our text. Open your Horizontal Type Tool and pick a font. I'm using "Agency FB Regular".
If you'd like to use it, I provided its link in my video's description or project files.
I'll make its size: 100 points, but you may want to adjust this amount based on the font
you choose and the amount of characters in your text. The aliasing is Sharp and the Alignment is centered.
Click the color box. In the Brightness field, type in 35%. Then, click OK.
Click on your doucment and type out your text. To center it on your document, click your Move
Tool and press Ctrl or Cmd + A.
Click the "Align Horizontal Centers" icon
and the "Align Vertical Centers" icon.
Then, deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. SInce, we'll
be adding deep shadows to the bottom of the text, let's slide it up a bit by pressing
the "Up" arrow key on your keyboard approximately this much. Convert the text into a Smart Object.
Click the "fx" icon and click "Bevel & Emboss".
Make the Style: Inner Bevel, the Technique: Chisel Hard and the Depth: 100% .
Make the Direction: Up and the Size: 3 pixels.
Make the Angle: 135 degrees and the Altitude: 50 degrees. The Highlight mode is Screen with
an Opacity of 75% and the Shadow mode is Linear Burn and its opacity is also 75%. Then, click OK.
Make the lens flare layer active and make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or
Cmd + J. Drag the copy above your text layer and hide its blur filter. Presently, the lens
flare is showing through the text and the background, however, we want it to only show
through the text and NOT the background. To do this, we'll make the lens flare copy into
a clipping mask, which will clip it to the one layer below it, which is the text. To
do this, press Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
Next, we'll begin the process of making the deep, 3-dimentional shadows.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the thumbnail
of your text to make a selection of it. Hide the text layer and make Layer 1 active.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer above the active layer. In this empty layer, we'll
fill the selection with black. Open the Fill window. It remembers the last Fill content,
which was black, so just press Enter or Return. Then, deselect it.
Next, we'll create an action to build our deep shadow.
Open your Action panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and Actions.
Click the icon on the right and click "New Set". Name it, "Shadows" and click OK or press Enter or Return.
Immediately, a new action set was added to your Actions panel.
Click the icon again and this time, click "New Action". The New Action window will pop
up. Click the "Record" button. Now, every step you do will be added to this action.
It doesn't record the time between your steps; it only records the steps themselves, so take
your time. The first step in your action is to make a copy of Layer 2 which is the selection
of our text that we filled with black. Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to make the copy.
Double-click the copy to open its Layer Style window.
Click Drop Shadow. The Blend Mode is Multipy and the Opacity is 100%.
Uncheck Global Light and make the angle: 135 degrees. The Distance
is 2 pixels and the Spread and Size is 0. Then click OK.
Merge the Layer 2 copy with Layer 2 by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E.
Then, click the "Stop" button to stop recording
your actions. Click the Action to make it active and click the "Play" button. Each time
you click the Play button, it will add 2 more pixels to the depth of your shadow. I'll click
it approximately 30 times to make a solid shadow this deep.
Let's rename this layer, "3-D shadow".
Make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J. Name the copy, "Blur shadow"
and reduce its opacity to 60%. Make your text layer visible, but keep your Blur shadow layer active.
Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Blur it 10 pixels and click OK.
Drag the blurred shadow down and to the right.
Next, Ill show you how to change its colors. Scroll to the
top and make your top layer active. Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click, "Color Balance".
There are 3 tonal ranges: Shadow, Midtones and Highlights. Within each tonal
range, there are 3 color bars that show the color changes for the red, green, and blue channels.
By dragging a slider toward a color, you'll increase that color in the image.
Have fun experimenting with various color combinations in all three tonal ranges until you get the look you want.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!