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3D Textured Text Photoshop Tutorial

Step 1
Open up Illustrator, and with the Type Tool type a letter or text, I typed the letter “C” I used the font Adobe ACTIVE CONTRIBUTORS
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Step 2
Now go to Effect>3D>Extrude & Bevel, make sure that Preview is on. Use the settings shown below, apart
from specifying rotations for x, y & z axis, I chose Tall-Round from the Bevel drop down list. The settings will
more or less depend on the font, so if you have used a different font play a bit, though I will advise to stay
away from the fancier Bevel settings, mostly None setting works best. You can also make it more thick by
increasing the Extrude Depth.

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Step 3
After you’re happy with your 3D effect, it will be time to move on over to Photoshop. Open a new document in
Photoshop. Now, copy your 3D text/letter from Illustrator & paste it as Smart Object in Photoshop, press Enter
key or checkmark to commit. You can now resize your text to whatever size you want, in fact, bigger the
better, but for the purposes of this tutorial, I will stick to a small canvas.

Power Tip: If for any reason, you want to edit the pasted 3D Smart Object, just double click on the Vector
Smart Object thumbnail in the Layer Palette, press OK on the resulting window, the Smart Object will
automatically open up in Illustrator, do the changes or editing you want, then go to File>Save & close the file

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& tadaa the changes will reflect in your Photoshop file.

Step 4

Now, lets begin with the Photoshop magic, we will be adding various texture on the
different layers & will spice them up with the variety of blending modes, the key is to experiment & choose
the settings that will best suit your purpose.

Open the texture image that you would like to use, for the first layer I used a texture, lets call it Texture 1 from
a texture pack on deviantArt. Go to Select>All & then Edit>Copy to copy the entire texture image, Now we
are going to paste this image into our letter, but you have to tell Photoshop where to paste it. So return to
your 3D text document & pressing down Ctrl/Cmd Click on Vector Smart Object thumbnail, this will select the
entire text/letter, in our case, the letter “C”, now go to Edit>Paste Into (Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+V) to paste the texture
image on “C”. Change the blending mode of the texture layer to Overlay.

Now, your image & layer palette should look like so:

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Look at your layers palette now. You see your texture image there and a mask has been made that allows
only the letter part of the image to show.

If you’re using different images, play around a bit with blending modes, mostly Overlay, Soft Light, Hard light,
Multiply will give the desired results.

Step 5
Repeat the procedure prescribed in Step 4, but with a different texture. I used one of the texture from this
pack.

In brief, open the texture image, Select All (Ctrl/Cmd+A), Copy it (Ctrl/Cmd+C) & return to your original
document, pressing down Ctrl/Cmd Click on Vector Smart Object thumbnail to select the letter/text & go to
Edit>Paste Into (Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+V) to paste the texture in the letter “C”. And, change the blending mode to
Multiply.

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Step 6
Now, its again time to do the same thing as mentioned in Step 4 & 5, but with the different texture image. This
time I used a more colorful texture from a another texture pack over at deviantArt. And, this time I choose the
blending mode to Soft Light.

This is how my image & Layer Palette looks like after step 6.

Power Tip: If you need to edit the filler texture image or if you don't like how it looks within the letter, you can
still change it! Just choose the Move Tool (V) & drag over with your texture layer selected. Also, if you need
to resize the texture image select Edit>Transform to resize it.

Step 7
Now, select the Background layer & fill with a Gradient Tool (G). I used Linear Gradient & the colors for the
two stops are as prescribed in the screenshot. Drag the gradient tool diagonally from bottom to top.

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Step 8
Pressing down Shift key select all the layers in the Layer Palette except the background layer & Link all of
them. Also make sure to link the Layer Mask thumbnails with their corresponding layer thumbnails by clicking
once between them.

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Step 9
Now, we will do the reflection of our letter “C”. For that, select all the linked layers & duplicate them.

Step10
Merge all the duplicated layers & name it Reflection.

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Step 11
On the Reflection layer, go to Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical & place it beneath the letter “C”. Adjust its
perspective if the need be.

Step 12
The next step is to add a layer mask to the duplicate layer. To do this simply click on the add layer mask
button in the layers palette.

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Now pick the Gradient Tool (G) and draw a gradient (black to white) in the direction from bottom to mid top.

Finally just reduce the opacity of the duplicate layer and you are all done. I reduced the opacity to 20% ,
there is no golden rule about the opacity % , just play with the opacity setting & choose the one that suits
your image.

Step 13
Finally, with the Type Tool, I wrote the words “for creativity” with the settings as shown in the Character
Palette.

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The font used is Larissa & can be downloaded from here. I also rotated the words a bit via Edit>Transform.

Then I applied the layer style, as shown in the screenshots below.

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Step 14
To add a bit of finishing touch, I added Outer Glow to the Vector Smart Object layer, as shown.

And, that’s how my Layers palette in end & final image looks like.

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Here, is a another example of image, I made with the same technique.

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To take it further, play & experiment with various textures, the blending modes, also changing the various
Adjustments options like Invert, Posterize, Hue/Saturations settings etc. gives the different results. You can
also make the text look grungy or rusty using grunge textures, its just the matter of exploring the powers of
Photoshop & tapping your creativity!

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accs · 4 weeks ago 0

thx 4 share

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Akshay Nawosah · 5 weeks ago +1

arigatou ^^ ....thanks for every single tuts there are all wonderful i always learn a new techniques from each of them
thanks a looooooooooooooot ^_______________^

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Mars · 7 weeks ago 0

Thank you very much for sharing.. =) i just love it. cute results. =)

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Stephanie · 8 weeks ago 0

Hey this is a great tutorial but I'm having a little trouble with a part of it. When I paste the textures over the letter the
mask doesn't appear so when I go make the background it doesn't work. I followed all the directions but it doesn't work.
I'm still a beginner so can someone tell me how to get the pasting to work? Thanks!

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Ả‫ח‬ιМΔТФЯ · 9 weeks ago 0

thankz for the tutor

stop dreamink. .
start action. .
hahahahaha

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Shannon · 10 weeks ago 0

I love it, thank you very much you are a GREAT tutor!

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Rishma · 15 weeks ago 0

hey thanks! I love typography & your tuts are awesome.

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Karla · 18 weeks ago 0

I really like this effect! :] but can someone help me with a few steps?
"Now we are going to paste this image into our letter, but you have to tell Photoshop where to paste it. So return to your
3D text document & pressing down Ctrl/Cmd Click on Vector Smart Object thumbnail, this will select the entire text/letter,
in our case, the letter “C”, now go to Edit>Paste Into (Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+V) to paste the texture image on “C”."

I've been trying to figure this out but no such luck for me :[ however I've tried creating a clipping mask on the texture but
is that the same as the instructions above?

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Dana · 18 weeks ago 0

Gracias por este tutorial, saludos afectuosos desde Argentina!!

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Neiripuccicae · 22 weeks ago 0

Maravilhoso este tutorial. A palavra correta é divino e fabuloso.

Parabéns, milhões de vezes parabéns.

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