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3D Text In CS5

 

This week Corey shares an inside look of the new 3D capabilities in Photoshop CS5.

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.

46 Comments

  1. Emir said on — April 23, 2010 @ 12:14 pm

    Thanks Corey.

  2. Mads said on — April 23, 2010 @ 5:57 pm

    Corey this is amazing – I bet the web is going to be hit hard with 3d images, when CS5 hits the streets! Looking forward to more 3d stuff!

    - Mads

  3. Mads said on — April 23, 2010 @ 5:57 pm

    Corey this is amazing – I bet the web is going to be hit hard with 3d images, when CS5 hits the streets! Looking forward to more 3d stuff!

    - Mads

  4. sharpless said on — April 24, 2010 @ 3:41 am

    nice tut, i hope cs5 comes out soon

  5. Steve said on — April 24, 2010 @ 4:28 am

    Hey Corey,

    I’m Steve from the UK and I’m a great fan of photoshopTV. This site is a recent discovery and I have to say I’m now addicted to your regular inspiring tutorials.

    Thanks
    Steve

  6. Ahmed Maher said on — April 24, 2010 @ 7:00 am

    Corey you r the best

  7. pk said on — April 24, 2010 @ 7:15 am

    Corey,

    As always very cool and creative. I also have been meaning to request if you have seen a TV show called Fringe and if ou can show how the title is done in that show.

    Thank you,
    pk.

  8. Robin Kanters said on — April 24, 2010 @ 10:41 am

    Corey… can’t you make the text layer a smart object, to avoid rasterization?

  9. Rajendra said on — April 26, 2010 @ 6:01 am

    That’s Great Guru.
    You made me feel the brezee coming through the HUBBLE.

  10. John said on — April 26, 2010 @ 11:15 pm

    hi.. great tut.. but I could swear Ive seen a cs4 tut where you use the repousse tool and you even make a joke about it,, saying you have to say “repousse” in a funny voice every time you click it.. and now I cant find that tut for the life of me… can anyone help or am I having delusions..
    cheers, John.

  11. Billy Bob Sanchez said on — April 27, 2010 @ 1:53 am

    ow my gad, is dis el nuevo fotoshop con el 3D thingy ?
    It’s has amazingment writin all over it. Oh, and another thing, I reek west
    puppet wrath tutorial con refer hedges for more finer selaxions. please please
    Great tut my friend. You will not disapoint.

  12. Dexon Dee said on — April 27, 2010 @ 4:10 am

    wher can i download Photoshop CS5? nice tiut tnx

  13. Designershack said on — April 27, 2010 @ 8:44 pm

    Awesome job Corey!

  14. TheIVA said on — April 27, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

    Thanks!
    When will be lessons similar to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKjs8ZjQNg ?

  15. CSSReX said on — April 28, 2010 @ 12:15 am

    Thanks for this wonderful tut. I am sure CS 5 will be a big hit. Waiting for it desperately :)

  16. Jenni said on — May 2, 2010 @ 1:47 pm

    I have been trying to do this for a few hours today. The repousse option is not highlighted and I can’t seem to create a 3d object from a text layer. I’ve made sure i’m on 8bit RGB but am still not sure y i’m not able to do this. Any help would be appreciated! TY

  17. Kyle Maloney said on — May 3, 2010 @ 2:17 pm

    Very cool, I just hope this isnt one of those features that will crash Photoshop on my system. I havnt had much luck with 3D features in Photoshop so far.

  18. Kyle Maloney said on — May 3, 2010 @ 5:27 pm

    Okay, I just downloaded the trial and its greyed out. does this mean it wont work on my machine, or has the feature not been implemented in this release yet?

  19. Steve said on — May 3, 2010 @ 7:22 pm

    Great tutorial! Wish P.PS would do more CD album covers & back image design work + inlay booklet stuff. That would really float my boat.

  20. swaroop patil said on — May 4, 2010 @ 6:05 am

    Oh my world , this is just amazing.. i love this new feature !! i gon make some cool stuff now!! awesome..

  21. dRC said on — May 4, 2010 @ 7:50 am

    @Kyle Maloney:

    I have the exact same problem! It all seems to work fine but everything but “Browse 3D Content Online” and “Auto Hide Layer for Performance” is greyed out!

    This is my work computer and it runs Windows Vista Home Premium with SP2 on an AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core @ 2,70GHz, 4GB of RAM and a ATI Radeon HD 4350 with 512MB RAM. Shouldn’t be a problem should it…?

    Can anyone explain where this greying out of the 3D features is coming from?

  22. milo said on — May 13, 2010 @ 3:33 pm

    For those of you struggling with grayed out option under the 3D menu, make sure your colors are set to RGB rather than CMYK.

  23. Admassu said on — June 5, 2010 @ 5:52 pm

    Thanks a lot for all great tutorials.
    If I may, I would like to remind you something. The image of your screen background usually diverts my attention and I have difficulties to watch the tutorial with it’s full effect. Is it possible to make your tutorial full screen so that the screen montage of apple is no more visible? Thank you.

  24. K2 Media said on — June 24, 2010 @ 5:08 pm

    This is a nice tutorial. I’m working with cs5 but for some reason Repousse wont work at all.
    I’ve tried alot of different things and it is the Extended PS CS5

  25. haribo said on — July 8, 2010 @ 10:37 pm

    these 3d options have been on AE since cs3, i try to do reposse its grey’d out?

  26. OnlyUseMeThump said on — July 27, 2010 @ 10:17 am

    Please help me….when i click on the Respoussé button it tells me that it “could not complete the Text Layer command because the type layer uses a faux bold style” plz help me:(

  27. taga-iloilo said on — August 12, 2010 @ 3:32 am

    @OnlyUSeMeThump

    your font has been set to faux bold. highlight the text you made, right click on it and uncheck faux bold. I’m sure this would help.

  28. Nir BN BNSVP Productions said on — August 20, 2010 @ 6:18 pm

    Hi Corey, I really enjoy to watch this Photoshop video tutorial and it learned me alot on the 3D CS5 feature, but I get 1 question that I didn’t understood-
    What is the font of the 3D text function ??
    Thanks alot and best regards,
    Nir BN

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  30. Tolis said on — November 23, 2010 @ 10:17 pm

    Great tutorial!!! Thanks Corey.

  31. llas said on — December 5, 2010 @ 10:17 am

    hi i got the repousse gray’d out problem like many……………how do i solve it?

  32. diseño web tenerife said on — December 20, 2010 @ 3:30 pm

    Great !!!!! :D

  33. Pascal said on — December 24, 2010 @ 8:46 am

    Hey! cool. Thanks for sharing 3d text tutorial. I am loving an searching for this tutorial.

  34. Jarkko Yli-Heikkuri said on — January 27, 2011 @ 1:35 pm

    if you click that video to fullscreen mode so it goes over edges.. tested in google chrome and firefox beta 4b10 so that video doesn´t work correct because in youtube everything looks right.

  35. eleonora said on — January 27, 2011 @ 2:53 pm

    great tutorial !
    Thank you very much ! :)

  36. joey said on — January 28, 2011 @ 5:44 pm

    Corey, your site and tutorials are inspirational and fun to watch. thanks for all that you do.

  37. Boudeccea said on — February 25, 2011 @ 9:39 am

    Corey, could you give us that wonderful texture you used please?

  38. Aşk forum said on — April 2, 2011 @ 3:03 am

    thank youuuu…bro

  39. Jeff Musseau said on — May 10, 2011 @ 1:00 pm

    nice cant wait to give this a try

  40. automate cafea said on — May 12, 2011 @ 10:18 am

    I’ll do my best following you step by step. I think i will do just fine.

  41. ruhsabh said on — June 25, 2011 @ 10:19 pm

    hey guys m new to photoshop can any1 help where to start from so i can also be closer to u all guys hope i will…..

  42. Tobias said on — June 28, 2011 @ 7:10 pm

    Is it possible to download the nice steel texture you used?

  43. mary said on — August 5, 2011 @ 2:24 am

    this was really good up to the part were i couldnt find the 3D menu?

  44. Guian said on — August 17, 2011 @ 9:02 am

    THANK YOU SIR! It was a great help! =)

  45. Janet said on — November 2, 2011 @ 5:08 pm

    Is this 3D feature an extra extension because I have CS5.1 and I don’t see a 3D option in my menu??

  46. Photoshop said on — November 14, 2011 @ 2:21 pm

    The 3D feature is only in the extended version of adobe photoshop CS5.

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