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Use Photoshop’s new 3D tools to create some dazzling background effects.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

18 Comments

  1. Danielle G. said on — October 16, 2009 @ 4:09 pm

    Great tutorial! I can’t wait for the next one!!!

  2. Thomas Wozak said on — October 16, 2009 @ 5:35 pm

    amazing!

  3. Martin said on — October 17, 2009 @ 8:00 am

    Nice tutorial. Does anyone know of any other websites like this which teaches us photoshop with videos?

  4. Mark said on — October 17, 2009 @ 11:34 am

    Never though of using that donut either, very cool

  5. BestTextureWorld said on — October 17, 2009 @ 7:40 pm

    Good tutorial, thanks for the sharing.

  6. Daneyra said on — October 18, 2009 @ 12:53 am

    How do you even come up with these? You are amazing Corey!

  7. Mads said on — October 20, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

    @Martin – Check out http://www.revision3.com/pixelperfect and http://www.layersmagazine.com/tv

    Btw. Corey great tut. I Love the little dougnut sarcasm joke :) I have actually looked at the dougnut many times and then just deleted the thing.

  8. Ann said on — October 24, 2009 @ 10:37 am

    Every time a big surprise to see what you create.
    Great tutorials. THANKS!!

  9. MajorDoDo said on — November 5, 2009 @ 9:28 am

    Hi Corey, really great tut, one problem though, I tried the dots with the 15 radius, but I do not get the same effect! Does not matter how I tried to change the radius it is always to far apart to get the effect. What am I doing wrong, I even tried it on another computer and the same thing happened. I went through your tutorial 3 times to see if I made a mistake. But cannot figure it out. Please help?? Thank you!

  10. MajorDoDo said on — November 5, 2009 @ 10:04 am

    I figured it out, it was a problem with the pixalate layer. I had to merge it down! Wow when you are only starting out it feels good to learn something. Thanks again for this tutorial

  11. Romee Jain said on — November 27, 2009 @ 7:39 am

    Nice…:)

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  13. debbi said on — December 26, 2009 @ 12:46 pm

    Please more 3D stuff!!

    and more at Kelby training too!
    Debbi

  14. sanjay said on — January 30, 2010 @ 7:35 am

    nice very nice thanks

  15. Kim said on — July 28, 2010 @ 7:55 pm

    Great tutorial. Everything is working great except the 3d rotate tool is not showing up on my screen. I can rotate it but wondering where the tool is. Can anyone help me?

  16. kartik said on — December 15, 2010 @ 1:27 pm

    really gr8…awesome

  17. Bartek said on — December 29, 2010 @ 3:49 pm

    Great stuff! I’ll definitely use that for my graphics.

  18. Adeel said on — October 17, 2011 @ 6:36 am

    Cool Stuff! Thanks for the tutorial.

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