Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.

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1. Kyle said on — March 28, 2008 @ 8:27 pm

   Great tutorial! On your next one can you show us how you made the logo for the new design? Also, love the new website layout!

2. Dani Crisan said on — March 29, 2008 @ 4:33 pm

   coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

3. Tammy said on — March 31, 2008 @ 8:06 pm

   dang! I wish I had something to use this on! I am just a digital scrapbooker, but you have taught me so much with your excellent tutorials!

4. Bob Murray said on — April 1, 2008 @ 7:40 am

   I’ll be converting text to shapes from now on.
   As always, Corey’s teaching is excellent.
   This is a great planet to visit often.
   It has a cool atmosphere!

5. Geeo said on — April 3, 2008 @ 2:07 pm

   How can I download ?

6. emmanuel said on — April 3, 2008 @ 11:47 pm

   thank you very much i love how you teach

7. Craig said on — April 4, 2008 @ 8:37 am

   I have been visiting your website for a little over a year. Always great stuff, love your tuts. It is always the small tips like the hold control to drag without snapping. You show me things that I never knew I wanted or thought was possible, in not only PS but AI as well. So thanks a lot, you have no idea how helpful you have been!

8. remm pangilinan said on — April 5, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

   Thank You so Much!!! I loved your videos! Thanks

9. Peter said on — April 6, 2008 @ 1:52 pm

   Thank you ! i can use that for my logo’s and websites

10. Carl said on — April 6, 2008 @ 3:25 pm

    I get an error when i try to convert to shape “error,could not complete your request because the type layer uses a faux bold style”

    What am i doing wrong?

    Please help

11. marden kurdistani said on — April 6, 2008 @ 4:07 pm

    that is more simple

12. Eric said on — April 9, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

    Corey rocks!

13. jin-jin said on — April 10, 2008 @ 9:06 pm

    great illustration!!

14. Omar said on — April 11, 2008 @ 9:09 am

    just as carl said,,i get the ssame error

    “error,could not complete your request because the type layer uses a faux bold style”
    is there a missing step ?

    please help

15. Josh said on — April 15, 2008 @ 8:21 am

    I cannot convert to shape. It dosen’t have the option. Even when i control right click. But i am using a non upgraded photoshop.

16. Nix said on — April 21, 2008 @ 2:51 pm

    For those of you who receive the “faux bold error”. This is because you have enabled faux bold (a setting that fakes a bold style). You can switch it off in the character palette.

    On a related note, it would be awesome if you could show a quick and easy way to extrude text. The way I know are cumbersome and not very fancy, so I am usually forced to make it in actual 3D-programs instead. Thanks for a very useful tutorial, though.

17. Venkatx5 said on — May 8, 2008 @ 3:00 am

    Cool One. I am getting low Voulme

18. Ezequiel Santiago said on — May 16, 2008 @ 12:54 am

    That was a good one tutorial, simple but very well explained, thank you very much, If help me enough. How can I download ?

19. Márcio Guerra said on — May 17, 2008 @ 2:00 pm

    Cool video tutorial… I am starting to feel that I wanna buy a new spaceship and fly to this planet! Thank you very much!

    Márcio Guerra

    P.s.- Yet simple, you still amaze me in every single tutorial you make. It really rocks! Thanks

20. Lukas said on — June 2, 2008 @ 11:58 am

    i just want to ask, im new on ps and i dont know how he selekt the words he writen..

21. upload said on — June 12, 2008 @ 12:28 pm

    thanks aloooot

    but It`s diefecul expane some thing not under stand

22. Franky said on — June 14, 2008 @ 4:35 am

    Hi,

    I’ve been looking at our site a few weeks now and tried a few video’s. I’m an absolute NOOB when it comes to Photoshop but with the help of your video’s I’m getting great results !

    Thank you ! This is really a very unique website and I’m recommending you to everyone who want to hear it

23. Purple Haze said on — June 21, 2008 @ 10:46 pm

    Great illustration, I applycated it on cs2

    thanks a lot

24. Sid said on — June 22, 2008 @ 6:21 pm

    How do you mkae the backround liek your desktop kinda liek the Mac version of Photo shop

25. wahed said on — July 3, 2008 @ 11:17 am

    thanks a lot it was cool

26. Rucj said on — July 9, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

    Hey i love this tutorial i think the 3D looks really cool and is very important to graphics these days.

27. Kevin said on — July 15, 2008 @ 5:03 pm

    uhh, it doesn’t work when i try to highlight both layers

28. Justin said on — August 18, 2008 @ 10:21 pm

    hey awsome tutorials could u please tell me how im doin? if not, then o well ur probly busy
    ur tuts are the best easyest to follow on the web

    http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa132/Moffeia/Moffeia1.jpg

    http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa132/Moffeia/Paige.jpg

29. Asilee said on — August 24, 2008 @ 7:15 pm

    You know I was watching this tutorial yesterday and the movie U-571 came on that night. Talk about ironic.

30. Tooraj said on — September 19, 2008 @ 8:38 am

    Thanks for the great tutos, is there any possibility to download those?

31. Impervious said on — September 19, 2008 @ 5:14 pm

    Lovin your Tutorials. But this one has me stumped. When I convert to Shape I get this goofy outline. Why?

    http://www.jordall.net/dezcorps/Projects/GrfX/ConvertToShape.jpg

    Thank you for all your teachings.

32. Chris said on — September 27, 2008 @ 10:54 pm

    After I duplicate the text layer/flip it and add the layer mask as you have done, when I try to use the gradient tool over the text nothing happens. Help?

33. joan said on — October 3, 2008 @ 10:57 pm

    coooooool! i love it!

34. joan p. galanza said on — October 3, 2008 @ 10:58 pm

    how can i download it… pleaseeeee

35. alex said on — October 14, 2008 @ 5:24 pm

    Is it possible to add gradient to the font for this?

36. David said on — October 14, 2008 @ 5:33 pm

    i download the font of off dafont.com but im having trouble getting it on photoshop can u plz tell me how to insert the new font into photoshop

37. jack said on — October 20, 2008 @ 11:35 am

    can u do one for beginners?

38. lil strap said on — October 21, 2008 @ 12:48 pm

    Thank you for all your teachings.

39. anttoly said on — November 23, 2008 @ 3:51 am

    Thank you for the tutorial.
    For those who were looking to download this tutorial – you will find an flv file in your Temporary Internet Files folder (use search) after you watched it

40. katia hoehne said on — December 8, 2008 @ 9:33 am

    Great, i need this, thanks

41. Henriko said on — December 20, 2008 @ 4:52 pm

    Great one!
    I often been upset on the Distortion-tool when making perspectives

    Thanks!

    /H

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43. azooz said on — January 22, 2009 @ 8:55 am

    Thanks ……………

44. mostwanted said on — February 4, 2009 @ 7:44 pm

    my outcome :p
    http://filesend.it/files/2957_eu827/tw.png

45. Jack said on — February 10, 2009 @ 9:42 am

    I just want to know how to change background and how to put window like that where it says: “3D_letters copy @ 100%”.

46. balkoboy said on — February 18, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

    Very well tutorial. Lots of smart tips & tricks as well.
    Learned alot from all of your tutorials. great work.

    Best regards form Norway.

47. ael said on — March 1, 2009 @ 3:56 am

    great job!!!!!……hope 2 see many more like this

    ……tnx

48. Dirk Smith said on — March 7, 2009 @ 6:10 am

    Hey Corey, you are a FANATASTIC help with my 365day project and teaching me photoshop. Here is my day 96 picture using your tutorial.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dereksbeard/3333317677/

49. muho said on — March 7, 2009 @ 8:13 am

    8| this is great

50. Charles Kronuer said on — March 8, 2009 @ 6:26 pm

    Amazing stuff. I hope to see you at Photoshop World Boston….09 to thank you personally for your contribution to our art and general understanding of photoshop.

51. Mike said on — March 8, 2009 @ 6:47 pm

    How come hardly any of these work for me? I’m using exact same program.. I get up to the bit where he does the gradient of the reflection.. It doesn’t work, just stays a solid color even though I do the exact same thing he does. So instead I just change the opacity of the reflection, then I right click on the top word and no option comes up saying ‘distort’? It just has two of my layer names, and then an option ‘Select similar layers’ – I go into distort under the ‘filter’ heading and it just has options like glass, glow, grain etc… Can anyone help?

52. Art said on — March 31, 2009 @ 4:37 pm

    superb 2.0 type of tutorial. ur too good man

53. Francia said on — April 6, 2009 @ 11:36 pm

    Hallo! Im just trying to see the complet video and it doesnt work… it cuts off in the middle… Am i doing something wrong?

54. Jake said on — April 9, 2009 @ 8:58 pm

    Great job! Thanks

55. photo retouching said on — April 23, 2009 @ 3:35 am

    This tutorial really helps raise the quality of your titles from bland 2 dimensional to 3D! It is also so useful for such a broad amount of applications, even film editing!

56. farid said on — April 28, 2009 @ 3:57 am

    hi.how i can free download this movies
    plz help me

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58. Dre said on — May 20, 2009 @ 5:12 pm

    Q? What keys takes the place for command/delete in windows?

59. rSKKK~ said on — June 7, 2009 @ 6:31 pm

    awesome tut<– really good, thanks a lot
    PD: my outcome http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k197/rioseko/outcomeshapetext.png

60. Jay said on — June 23, 2009 @ 4:29 am

    When I try to add the gradient, nothing happens. How do I fix that? Great tutorial by the way!

61. Mary said on — June 28, 2009 @ 6:07 pm

    sooooooooooooooo nice ….thnx

62. ploey said on — July 6, 2009 @ 7:19 am

    can’t seem to convert my text to shape. it says, “the type layer uses a faux bold style”

    reply asap.. thanks..

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