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MadPotato — 3D-Typo Using Only Photoshop
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Published: 2008-06-02 13:47:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 138111; Favourites: 786; Downloads: 33234
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Description
If you've enjoyed this tutorial, feel free to visit my portfolio ([link] ) for more tutorials, resources and some pretty wallpaper-packs.What you'll learn:
- Creating A Bubble Brush
- Creating / Employing Actions
- Illustrating 3D-Typography Using Only Photoshop
- Illustrating Vector Swirls
- Additional Visual Effects
I will most likely not be the first person to tell you that three-dimensional typography is experiencing an ever increasing popularity amongst both designers and their audience. An understandable development as the third dimension introduces new elements and uncharted playgrounds into the wonderful world of typography, combining the aspects of design and communication in an unparalleled fashion. While most other articles on 3D-typography employ external 3D-rendering applications, this introduction will guide you through the complete process of recreating the tutorial’s cover illustration using Adobe Photoshop and it’s built-in tools only. The tutorial comes with the illustration’s original, layered .PSD-file, a set of 8 3D-Actions and the original bubble- and smudge-brushes.
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Using a localized version of Photoshop? See this comment for details on how to avoid problems with your actions: [link]
What people have created (using this tutorial as a source of inspiration):
If you want your image to appear here as well, just drop me a note - I love seeing what you guys come up with
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Comments: 104
how can i download this tutorial...cant find a link
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To the right you'll find a link called "Download this file" (above "more from madPotato"). That ZIP-File contains everything you need. If you can't find it, simply use the search-function of your browser (in most cases CTRL+F)
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Wouw... you're really amazing! Very nice result, and it works
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wonderful！thanks a lot for this amazing tutorial.
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ist nen tolles ttut |D sehr intressant 
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Featured in Project Educate: Design Tutorials and Resources .
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Much appreciated - it's always a pleasure to see my tutorials exposed to even more people. deviantArt has given me so much, I hope some of my work helps to repay the community a bit
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Great job! Lot of thx MadPotato !
Just wanna say that the action is working great, without any correction, only if:
1- you use an english version of Adobe Photoshop
2- the original text-layer is named "text" no other name, even with an english version of Photoshop
About point 1:
Indeed, if you look closer at steps of action named, for instance, "Extrude_TopLeft", there are steps which need to work with layer named "text copy 2" and then with layer named "text copy".
But in french, copy is written as copie, so when duplicate a layer named "blah", the new layer name is "blah copie" and not "blah copy". Consequently named do not match, and this drive action to fail.
About point 2:
Looking closer to the same action as in point 1. Action try to match layer named "text ..."
So if you named it otherwise it fails too, because
Thanks for your tutorial, I understood how actions works, how to obtain extrusion, and much more with Photoshop. So no problem anymore for me to obtain extrusion actions on my french Adobe Photoshop version and make my own 3D creations. But I just wanted to let you know about those points, hope this will help.
I did not succeed to modify steps of your actions. If someone know how, just tell me.
Tips: if someone want to use your actions but is lazy to recreate his own ones. He has just to expand the corresponding action, unchecked steps with bad layer names, and steps below.
Then play the modified Action, and realise corresponding unchecked steps by himself.
One more thing about french: Actions "menu" is named Scripts "menu" in french.
Hope this could help too an other french guy.
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Hey, Jarod!
Thank you for your detailed comment! I've linked your comment in the post's description so other users of localized Photoshop-versions can find your helpful information more easily.
I did put a short reference on page 3 of the tutorial on how Photoshop identifies the layer(s) it references in it's actions but I admit that this detail may easily be overlooked. The short info reads "The action that we are about to create will identify the layer it is supposed to work with by it's name. That is why you should have renamed your layer[..]".
Again, thank you for taking the time to help others in the spirit of creative commons.
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Very Nice art ... I was wondering if you can register on my forum
www.Creativeforums.net and Post some of your art inside the graphics showcase area of my forum. I really like your work
www.Creativeforums.net
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Thank you for the invite - I currently don't have the time to be part of forums or other kinds of activites - but feel free to post a selection of your favorite works on your site. All I ask is you give credit and link to my portfolio: www.madpotato.de (www. madPotato .de)
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Wow this looks amazing, I can't wait to get started on this tutorial!
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Hey!
Just look for the "Download File"-Button in the upper right corner - this'll hook you up with the PDF-Tutorial and the support-files.
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~MadPotato
Thanks so much man .. truly inspirational .. i'm gonna get started right away.
U ROCK !
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Cheers, mate ! It's always a pleasure to see people share the same passion for design that I feel
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wonderfulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!
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can someone help me i can understand the brush making part beacause the tutorial have alreadygiven brushes but they dont show plz contact me via pm
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I tried this tutorial. Very nice. I love it <3 For seeing the final picture look in my gallery. But i will try a 2nd one with more ideas of myself
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Tried it out, but it’s nothing like yours, as I just can’t follow a tutorial 100% .. I’m not that patience 
Thank you very much for posting!!
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Well, as I said in the very first paragraph of the tutorial: You don't have to follow the tutorial religiously but just use it as a source of techniques and inspiration. It'll take a bit of time, but if you continue using some of the described techniques I'm sure you'll come up with something great and unique. (I love the background of your illustration by the way).
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Hi madpotato
You are awesome, you put so much effort into this tutorial and this is why I didn't just simply copy the instructions but actually learn so much about photoshop functions. either way, here is what I came up with:
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thanks again! good luck with your work!
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Hey,
thank you for your comment - I'm glad you read the tutorial in it's original intention: As a source of techniques and ideas to come up with your own great images. I liked your illustration that much, I had to put it on top of the list of images that have been inspired by my tutorial.
Please keep up the great work and I hope to see you around.
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wow, thank you so much for your words, I'm so happy you liked my illustration. Your work was definitely the main inspiration, so I thank you for that and wish you all the best, you have great talent 
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If you mean how I made the pages look a bit "3D" - that's pretty simple:
I created a black rectangle that is the size of one of the pages, added two additional anchor points (on the right and bottom) and modified the position and bezier-curve of those points a bit. Then, I simply applied a gaussian blur and adjusted everything using the free-transform by clicking and ajusting the individual handles (you have to press and hold the CTRL-key to be able to do that). - Hope that helps !
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holy mother
thanks so much for the tutorial
excited now - first shot at typography
thanks a million!
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Please do so, it's always a pleasure to see what people come up with !
By the way: A new tutorial is almost finished, it's due for release within the next one or two weeks
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I made the Smart phone, its in my gallery
Oh i cant wait for the new tutorial
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Your tutorials are very useful, i checked out your website and i couldnt get around much because i only know english. I tried downloading a wallpaper pack but it didn't work, sadly. Love your work.
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Hey - I'm glad you like the tutorials and hope you can draw something helpful from them.
I know about the wallpacks currently being unavailable - the packs alone were creating a traffic of over 1 TB / month which led to some problems with my webhoster. I'm currently working on a solution to resolve the problem and hope to have them back up within the next couple of weeks.
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