#PHOTOSHOP 3D TEXT STYLES FREE#

When you're done, your text should look something like this: The number of times you press the arrow key will depend on the resolution of the document you're working with. In my case, I pressed the arrow key a total of 68 times, creating 68 copies of my shape, each one moved one pixel further to the right. Keep pressing the right arrow key until you're happy with the results. The more times you press the right arrow key, the more copies of the layer you'll create, and the more depth we give to our letters. Holding down Alt / Option tells Photoshop to create a new copy of the shape each time rather than simply moving the existing shape. Notice what's happening? Each time you press the right arrow key with the Alt / Option key held down, you're creating a new copy of the shape layer and you're moving the new copy one pixel over to the right. With the Move Tool selected and the shape layer selected in the Layers palette, hold down your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key and press the right arrow key on your keyboard. With the text layer still selected, go up to the Layer menu at the top of the screen, choose Type, and then choose Convert to Shape: In this case though, since we have no need to edit our text, we don't need to worry about it. The only downside to converting text to a shape is that the type will no longer be editable. By converting the text to a shape, we'll be able to change the perspective of it and create our effect. The solution is to convert our text layer into what's called a shape layer. Notice how the Distort and Perspective options are grayed out? That means they're currently unavailable to us, and that's because Photoshop can't perform either of these two types of transformations on text. A secondary menu will appear showing all the various ways we can transform the contents of the layer we currently have selected. To show you what I mean, make sure you still have the text layer selected, then go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and select Transform from the list. Photoshop doesn't allow us to alter the perspective of text (see how that can be a problem?). To create our 3D effect, we need to alter the perspective of our text.

#PHOTOSHOP 3D TEXT STYLES FREE#

When you're done, press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to accept the change and exit out of the Free Transform command. Resize and move the text as needed with Free Transform.

Photoshop 3d text styles