![]() ![]() I added also PSD version of the tutorial, so check it out too. I hope You learned something from this tutorial and feel free to ask for details. Repeat steps 10-11-12 to the rest of the letters, adding different settings, colors and brushes. I used white color and then added different blending options, outer glow to do the job. If You have no brushes to use check this list with Again feel free to experiment with different brushes, colors, and blending options. Now with mask layer selected press F5 to get brush popup panel, press B to switch to brush, and brush something over the D letter front. You can do it holding ALT and hovering between D front and mask layer and clicking between them. To do the trick and add brushes only to the letter front, create new layer above the “D front” and add it as layer mask. Use Your own brushes, anything it doesn’t really matters – just do the job until it feels good. In the next step we will add brushes to the letter front to get a little bit cooler result. Now select “D front” layer, add color overlay or gradient overlay, and add similar color like You did to D letter, just little more brighter, because it’s front of the letter. Add gradient like You want, play with colors until You are satisfied. Now return to D letter layer, add gradient overlay in blending options, change mode to overlay and reduce opacity, to save 3D look and shapes. We are doing this step for later use, so we could add brushes on the front of the letter and different colors: Ok, let’s move on, we should add colors to the letters, select letter D layer and with magic wand tool click on the white area, add new layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N),name it “D front” and fill it with color ( ALT+DELETE). Now Change blending mode to Color Dodge and add Outer Glow. ![]() The next step is to swirl those bits so use again Filter –> Distort –> Twirl and use maximal angle – 999 and hit OK. After that, right click on the path again and Delete path.įilter –> Distort –> Wave and use these settings: Switch to brush(B) tool, choose round brush with hardness 0%, then again switch to Pen tool, right click on the curve, Stroke path, use brush and simulate pressure. Switch to Pen tool and create something like this: Ok, create new layer and move it to the top. ![]() There are many ways to create this effect, but I used this one. Now I wanted to get more interesting and dreamy result, so follow me to these steps: To get little more brighter colors, duplicate background layer and change blending mode to Overlay. Resize letters, rotate them to look better. Rename all the layers so You can easier navigate between them later. When You are finished just copy and paste letters from Illustrator to Photoshop, each letter on the separate layer. Repeat those steps changing letters and adding different rotation settings. Use light gray color and broad font, ~850pt for better results, to add 3D effect – Effect –> 3D –> Extrude&Bevel.Ĭheck “Preview” checkbox to see preview, change extrude depth to 150pt and rotate object until You are satisfied. Okay, now You must open Illustrator, to get 3D letters, You can use Xara 3D to get even better results, but although I know not many people use this program, I used Illustrator. Go to the Filter –> Distort –> Twirl, Zoom out a little bit to see the preview window with -/+ and use settings like mine to get this effect. Now I wanted to get wave effect, so the cloud will look like more whirlwind. ![]() Play with the settings, I got something like this: Now I wanted to get more brighter colors, so get Your image settings window with Image –> Adjustments –> Brightness/Contrast. I found this one image, download it with clicking on the image and Save Image: Let’s begin!Īt first we need to find the background with the cloud. If You don’t know what Xara is, check out this review and tutorial using XARA 3D to get cool 3D effect. And yes, if you can use, Xara 3D for this step – it will get a lot better results then using simple Illustrator’s Bevel&Extrude options. Again we will use 3D effects to get the job done. We will use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and cloud stock image. I wanted to create dreamy scene in the sky, learning different effects through all tutorial. It’s an earlier version, not CS6, but like we said, you could always do all those effects in earlier versions, just maybe not so easily nor automated. This Photoshop Tips & Tricks Tutorial was sent in by Dainis Graveris, and while it’s all about the “dreamy” scene in the sky, learning the different type effects will help you along with 3d from Illustrator. ![]()
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