3D Bulge Text Effect Tutorial

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Photoshop
Date added:
26-03-08
Level:
Intermediate
Author:
Celox
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Step 10:

Now we're really going to make the final touches of this text effect, it'll come to life real good, watch! Make a new layer on top of everything and go to Image > Apply Image to copy every layer we've made onto the newly created layer. Then give it a gaussian blur by going to Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur and give it a 5.2 pixel radius.

3D Bulge Text Effect

We're not done yet with this step, it was just the beginning! Go to Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap, and change the settings to:

3D Bulge Text Effect

Press OK

3D Bulge Text Effect

Now that looks a bit weird huh, well with a simple layer move we're going to turn it around completely. So Move this layer BELOW all your text layers but keep it on top of your original background. The layer we just made functions as our new background layer.

Now with ONLY moving this layer it will look like this:

3D Bulge Text Effect

We can say we're done with this step now Happy

Step 11:

The last thing we have to do is sharpen everything, it will give us a far more better result then we have going now. Make a new layer on top of everything and "Apply image" (Image > Apply Image), then go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen.

3D Bulge Text Effect

And we're finished with this awesome 3D text effect!

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