3D Bulge Text Effect

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Intro:

Create an awesome 3D text effect with various photoshop filters (Plastic wrap, Blur, Sharpen) and other tricks that will make you a text effect master! Below is what we're going to be making with this text effect tutorial:

Step 1:

Open a new file with the dimensions to your likings, I used a canvas of 500 width and 200 height, with a #323440 background color. Open this texture and drag it onto your canvas, go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Change the blend mode to Luminosity and opacity to 11%.

Step 2:

Type your preferred text with the text tool ofcourse, and give it a warped text effect. If you have no idea where to go next for the warp effect, familiar yourself with the warp icon in the screenshot below.



Change the warp settings to:

Step 3:

Now we're going to make the 3D effect for the text, it's very simple so just follow the steps I outline and you should be fine. Rasterize your text layer by right-clicking on it in the layers pallette and choose "Rasterize Type". Make sure you have the move tool selected. Now we're going to whip out a neat shortcut trick, HOLD the ALT key and press the Up-arrow key 9 times. I'll explain what we just did, by holding ALT and pressing one of the arrow keys you'll duplicate the current selected layer and move it 1 pixel to the side of the arrow key, so in our case thats upwards since we pressed the up arrow. Easy huh?

Step 4:

Right-click the top layer, so that's copy #9 and change its blending options to:



Your text should look like this

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