3D Photoshop text tutorial
Filed Under (Photoshop, Text Effects) by Dave on 29-07-2008
Tagged Under : 3d text
Here is a pretty cool 3D Perspective text tutorial over at Celoxdesign.
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Here is a pretty cool 3D Perspective text tutorial over at Celoxdesign.
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This is a two part tutorial. First we’ll make some alien looking text in photoshop then in part 2 we’ll import it into After Effects and apply an expression to make it look similar to jello when it drops. If your not interested in making the text effect, just move on to part 2 (see the end of part 2 for the final).
Part one - the text effect:
Open a new document in photoshop with a size of 720×480 and make the background black. Type in your text and make it white for now. Name the new text layer “alien text” in the layers palette, .
Check out this great text effect tutorial for Photoshop over at Flash Game Design on how to make metal text wrapped in a chain. Find the tutorial here: Chained text
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Here’s an nice text effect using the layer mask in Photoshop to turn an image into text background. This effect is very easy to do and works great on logos, web page headers or print ads.
If your following along with me, download the music background I’m using here: Sheet Music
Here’s the final:

In this tutorial, we’ll make a cool chrome text effect in Photoshop then import the .psd into After Effects as a composition and customize the built-in Shatter effect to make the text appear as if its crumbling apart. A very cool effect that can be used on pictures and video as well.
Here’s the final: