Make Your Own 3D Coins
Sunday, May 17th, 2009 running time 16:07
Learn to make your own money in Photoshop! Bert teaches you how to make coins by applying textures to a 3D cylinder object.
Gather your materials
The first step of making a 3D coin in Photoshop is to get an image of the front and back side of the coin. You can use a scanner to capture both sides of a quarter at 300 dpi. When you have the image, use the marquee tool to copy and paste each side into a new file.
Make a 3D replica of the coin
Create a grey 3D cylinder in your original image file by choosing 3D > New Shape from Layer > Cylinder. Shrink the cylinder's height using the 3D controls that exist in your image canvas so that the shape looks similar to a quarter. Then, rotate and scale the diameter to match the size of the coins in your scan. You no longer need your original image, and you can fill the background with white.
Apply textures to different parts of the 3D object
In the 3D Materials panel, you will see that the coin is made of 3 parts: the Cylinder Material, the Top Material, and the Bottom Material. Each are indicated with different colors. Clicking on any of these materials activates that particular area of the image, and we can apply a texture. Place the face of the coin on the Top Material alongside the area where Diffuse is defined. Place the tail side of the coin in the Bottom Material, also alongside Diffuse. The ribbing of the coin will go in to Cylinder Material.
Create ribbing texture for the Cylinder Material
Bert creates a vertical strip filled with grey and applies a bevel. We need a continuous tone of highlight to shadow, so create a pattern from this image (Edit > Define Pattern). Apply this pattern to a new image file, and save as a file such as "ribbing.psd". Then, apply this file as a texture to the Cylinder Material alongside the Bump definition area.
Apply lighting to the 3D coin
Add a spot light to the coin. Adjust as necessary to create the desired luminance. Rotate the coin to see the lighting effects on your finalized coin.
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Highlights
3-D
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0:50, 2:28, 3:16, 5:16, 6:57, 13:15, 0:50, 2:28, 3:16, 5:16, 6:57, 13:15
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outer edges
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3:37, 3:37
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Halo 3
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2:25, 2:25
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green color
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7:28, 7:28
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3-D
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0:50, 2:28, 3:16, 5:16, 6:57, 13:15, 0:50, 2:28, 3:16, 5:16, 6:57, 13:15
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outer edges
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3:37, 3:37
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Halo 3
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2:25, 2:25
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green color
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" Wow."
" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by click it or ticket and godaddy.com."
" Yeah yeah and."
" Welcome depicts a pro would be very monitors show are all kind of things happen. On today's show we're gonna create a 3-D -- it's been around. The first. Let's talk about today's backgrounds. It was sent by current let's check. Hope we've got that right. Wounded and ask invest and ended today German contest to come with a background. And the little magic trick and let you see it. I'm gonna go. And necco. Now I've seen. He it's nice to see that America's love began around the world it's been awhile. But very Americans came from Germany before we start let's thank us sponsors. Click it or ticket it's an aggressive seat belt enforcement mobilization campaign. Thousands of enforcement agencies are participating in this campaign to increase seat belt use and reduce fatalities across the nation. So please do yourself a favor and kids and all the other passengers and car. The best seat -- on only takes a second and save a life. Also one of -- godaddy.com. If you've been watching -- show for some time you've heard me read all kinds of different domain name registration and hosting deals. Provided by godaddy.com. Well we put it all. All of them into one place. Revision3.com. Forward slash godaddy makes so much easier for me to have to realize of the stuff. All the different -- get for every piece of Internet that godaddy.com. Provides it's all there in one place for you to find. So go there. Now that's gonna do -- itself. But -- did Halo 3 dimensional -- now we have a few things on 3-D through. A couple of shows and will be many more in the future it just gets better better. But. I think a simple object a real something like that point. Now you might wanna animate is going to coin flip mortal coil popcorn twirling I just have -- going in your in your illustration. Not sure exactly how the angle it is so on right so we're gonna do is create a three recorded an angle and anywhere you want. Now let's start off with -- right here I took a quarter to quarter is actually put them side by side when showing the front when -- back and I scanned them. I scanned them in a flatbed scanner and hazards using just the -- scan. These are gonna become the textures or the faces on my 3-D going the texture map as you would call. When I'm going to do is I'm gonna go down trying to select using hey elliptical marquee tool Caledonia and Obama should keep. They get a perfect circle a little bit and select one side of this going. Right there and move it to I have just one I'm gonna use my cursor keys they get just enough. I don't they outer edges want to make sure I get -- inside that little edge in there and I'm gonna copy that. And send it over to a new file. So there's a new file and make sure that that it's it's seen because. Setting the what I selected Livonia make sure that. It's a great -- to -- grey -- big should the background it's transplant wanted to you have background. Click okay and I'm gonna go ahead and pasted in there -- and did my corn. Which I'm gonna say. Save as and local it heads. Right. Put it. Spray on a desktop. I would do the same thing for the back of the of the coin there's going there and notes it's. Food diary have. Those sons that would have to waste time doing over and over again there's a tale. And is the face now when you look at calling. There. Kind of opposite of each other what is it reverse I'm gonna take details here and do a little 180 on it. Just of that it's upside down there is the tale there's ahead and now we have the basic shapes so now. Gone back to this guy here where the actual coins exist I'm gonna go in here and create a new layer. And go ahead and -- that there. Where they 50% gray."
" Nice neutral density or the purported to graze that are in the -- just gonna go with it is a great nice group of density. And I'm gonna go in there and under my 3-D I'm gonna say hey new -- from Blair. I'm gonna going to say we assume there. Based on that. Simple -- later that created it. There is this. Goes on and I'm gonna go and look at it let's just do it looks like there's a top space which is due to -- bottom phase which is green and then be great in between right. And our other do and we're going to shrink that I can control how ministry -- for as I can -- from here. They make largest smaller but I want to work on one particular angle some of them called peer to this box this is controlling. This direction senate it's click on that and shrink this point what. -- the government -- thin edge like that. -- that's looking good so now I'm gonna rotate the -- So that it's straight on just like that and now going to make it bigger so I'm gonna make it bigger. Right here with my duties scale tool and I'm gonna make it bigger so that it matches the size of the actual quarters that I have here. Right about like that it's put into position this make sure we got a good size there right about yeah we got a good size so now. We have about a point now when we -- take this guy around let's go see it from the other side again now. Is a great side and is a greenside so now going to do is applied. These new faces that we have here this is turn off the side a little bit. Now in the background here there's -- background let's just go in there and the so that was they they wiped. We don't really need those coins anymore we've got them here separated. So now let's go to my. 3-D. Panel on the fact let's -- panel I guess it could -- him to be doing next and I'm gonna go to that -- it contains the point there it is it's called a -- It's good to name those layers of that we know where we are right. Okay so this is amateurism go to materials. Which is this one here. The third -- materials and we see we have the cylinder that's a great part the top which is to do and the bottom which is degree. If we click on these we'll be able to see did that blue collar. Is that green color this guy here allows us to see exactly what's being picked. I read the the mesh but we're gonna go right here -- the materials again so here's the top the two which right now is that we do. So want to do is I'm gonna go into this so. Icon here I'm gonna go and I say load a texture. And what I have here which is in my. Corn folder I have the face -- this -- here that you see it classic open that and you're gonna see that the face is -- did now on the cooling. So I'm not going to rotate the going. We'll put it aside. And see the bottom of the material. Which organized manner as say noted texture -- hair which I'm going to use the tail. Open and the -- going to fall right in place there is that is not lighting on this that's why it's so dark. But there's -- corn and and now has two faces now the side stuff that ribbing. Now if you look at a quarter and do it takes second look deep pockets by a quarter got these nice little ribs on the side we now have to create that -- would -- Everything's a little more tricky because the fact that it is really does have you texture to it so. My background layer here I'm building on top of it. Right there and let's zoom in a little closer. And create along the little selection. Make this long of the rectangle. I like that now this trick I was gonna represent a single red there's get a little closer on this now."
" Is how little bit I'm gonna go ahead and fill that with a 50% gray. So we did before in that later -- going to go into my. Layer style sort of double click on it brought up the -- thousand -- give it a little."
" Double the boss increase the depth so you really strong likes and -- And have the light coming from a little more like this angle here. -- doubling the size down to say let's see what to move like there's a -- is nice soft edge there with push that highlight stronger and the shadows darker. And it softened up a little bit so it's little more of a soft kind of an edge. Click okay now we have the light to dark. So now. That little -- up there. And here we don't want those who want to do is I'm going to diesel electric in my selection tool put down my option alt key and I'm gonna. Top portion and his bottom portion take it just is there a rating here because this area here is just a single red. With the continuous tone of the highlights to shadows. I'm gonna turn that into a pattern. So I'm gonna say defined pattern. All right so now. We could put out there a way it's gonna do -- anymore good here I'm pretty new file. I'm new file and right now it's 280. That's -- a -- this code 400. On the with that's good click okay and -- a film that. With that pattern which has created. There this click okay I got these little lines so -- wanna save this save as. -- I put that on my desktop so I know exactly where this. -- S and -- thing about it it coming back to our little coin here. And we look outside and this heart virtualization. That's because right now to render setting is set to. Well let's go see what -- it. Is that's get out to be coal mine and we go to -- settings and we see that it's set to solid it's not very clean. I go to great traces going to be a lot cleaner but we're at a -- is and it's gonna take longer to to do draw it so let's just leave it at the roughness right now. So now that similar material that's that great stuff. That's a great stuff go over here look at it see it's that great edge right in there so I'm Minnesota material. So what goes on here not to see. The other fuse which is what gave us that pictures that texture -- notice is actually a bump. See right here a bump it's a bump map it's going determined. The actual angles and shapes of this little edge so in the bond strength I can also Andy. Texture there is a little note the texture that's on my desktop is the little ribbing. I'm gonna say open that and it's going to create. There's my little -- on the side there let's up pull back to -- 1% and that's -- allow little corner here. And let's give it a little light just a legacy was -- happened here. From donors say let's give this a light -- right now has some -- so that's going in creating new. Spotlight. And died as a spotlight that C delights of this who they are there's a spotlight weighed down there. So I do do is to take the spotlight and kinda toilet this way and that's bring it up. Into this area here. And bring it towards us a little bit. And eight -- certain light up on out little quarter there and we -- toilet towards a quarter. There you go so we have this little. Thing a little like their eternal that I -- to see them anymore and there we could see how little quarter which weaken them. Rotate it around in Seattle like it's affecting an agency lived on the sides yet in the ribs get a picking up the shadows and highlights. They are. Long for -- to -- I would do. Spin this guy around."
" We have a actual three dimensional quarter that we can rotate and do anything we want to it so. We can animated. Twirling in the position whatever it is that we want to do we can do that now enough. Coming weeks we are going to actually creates a 3-D animations. So. We'll get deeper into how to animate this little object but dubbed -- bit -- that. Couple weeks ago who get into more intensity and that in the coming weeks. There's a lot of stuff that when there it is is a very simple object but. How complex the object is it what's on it that's all up view could you start to see some basic functions of -- let me think who work. And then you go in and start making modifications to create your three dimensional object whether it's a simple coin worried massive robot that's crushing his city and so on. There's anything you'd like to see on the show email me your suggestions to start at revision3.com. -- can check out the form that revision3.com. Forward slash forums where you can join discussions about the show and maybe even influence in the future show. Thanks again the cart could check for submitting our background image."
" This. UPI Leo. Remember your artwork can be back there instead it is green which is what I actually say -- that dream so we can put your stuff back there and put your name up like so everybody could see it annoy your friends c'mon everybody can see this stuff. Send your designs to be a bird at revision3.com. -- background has to be. Called baby by 720 pixels and a JPEG file. Those side dimension the very important that we get at the fit completely understand don't have to go through all this trouble of resize your image which sometimes. Things get cropped out. So. You can check out my latest book. Push out super -- digital painting to go to Amazon.com. Peach pit dot com or get links directly from my site for Monroe and I come. Where you can also get all information on what I'm gonna be. Our whole schedule of upcoming events and so on are all on there as little place we you can just going in and register for an upcoming event tunes in Cisco. Popular -- something this remember replace the best -- to see him bushels but see what they do they'll be afraid -- not gonna hurt program. Just go in there and push it if you do hey send Adobe a little bug report and can be very happy who knows with the good people. Join us again next week and thanks for watching hope to see yes."
" yeah and and."
" Yeah. Yeah."
" Wow."
" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by click it or ticket and godaddy.com."
" Yeah yeah and."
" Welcome depicts a pro would be very monitors show are all kind of things happen. On today's show we're gonna create a 3-D -- it's been around. The first. Let's talk about today's backgrounds. It was sent by current let's check. Hope we've got that right. Wounded and ask invest and ended today German contest to come with a background. And the little magic trick and let you see it. I'm gonna go. And necco. Now I've seen. He it's nice to see that America's love began around the world it's been awhile. But very Americans came from Germany before we start let's thank us sponsors. Click it or ticket it's an aggressive seat belt enforcement mobilization campaign. Thousands of enforcement agencies are participating in this campaign to increase seat belt use and reduce fatalities across the nation. So please do yourself a favor and kids and all the other passengers and car. The best seat -- on only takes a second and save a life. Also one of -- godaddy.com. If you've been watching -- show for some time you've heard me read all kinds of different domain name registration and hosting deals. Provided by godaddy.com. Well we put it all. All of them into one place. Revision3.com. Forward slash godaddy makes so much easier for me to have to realize of the stuff. All the different -- get for every piece of Internet that godaddy.com. Provides it's all there in one place for you to find. So go there. Now that's gonna do -- itself. But -- did Halo 3 dimensional -- now we have a few things on 3-D through. A couple of shows and will be many more in the future it just gets better better. But. I think a simple object a real something like that point. Now you might wanna animate is going to coin flip mortal coil popcorn twirling I just have -- going in your in your illustration. Not sure exactly how the angle it is so on right so we're gonna do is create a three recorded an angle and anywhere you want. Now let's start off with -- right here I took a quarter to quarter is actually put them side by side when showing the front when -- back and I scanned them. I scanned them in a flatbed scanner and hazards using just the -- scan. These are gonna become the textures or the faces on my 3-D going the texture map as you would call. When I'm going to do is I'm gonna go down trying to select using hey elliptical marquee tool Caledonia and Obama should keep. They get a perfect circle a little bit and select one side of this going. Right there and move it to I have just one I'm gonna use my cursor keys they get just enough. I don't they outer edges want to make sure I get -- inside that little edge in there and I'm gonna copy that. And send it over to a new file. So there's a new file and make sure that that it's it's seen because. Setting the what I selected Livonia make sure that. It's a great -- to -- grey -- big should the background it's transplant wanted to you have background. Click okay and I'm gonna go ahead and pasted in there -- and did my corn. Which I'm gonna say. Save as and local it heads. Right. Put it. Spray on a desktop. I would do the same thing for the back of the of the coin there's going there and notes it's. Food diary have. Those sons that would have to waste time doing over and over again there's a tale. And is the face now when you look at calling. There. Kind of opposite of each other what is it reverse I'm gonna take details here and do a little 180 on it. Just of that it's upside down there is the tale there's ahead and now we have the basic shapes so now. Gone back to this guy here where the actual coins exist I'm gonna go in here and create a new layer. And go ahead and -- that there. Where they 50% gray."
" Nice neutral density or the purported to graze that are in the -- just gonna go with it is a great nice group of density. And I'm gonna go in there and under my 3-D I'm gonna say hey new -- from Blair. I'm gonna going to say we assume there. Based on that. Simple -- later that created it. There is this. Goes on and I'm gonna go and look at it let's just do it looks like there's a top space which is due to -- bottom phase which is green and then be great in between right. And our other do and we're going to shrink that I can control how ministry -- for as I can -- from here. They make largest smaller but I want to work on one particular angle some of them called peer to this box this is controlling. This direction senate it's click on that and shrink this point what. -- the government -- thin edge like that. -- that's looking good so now I'm gonna rotate the -- So that it's straight on just like that and now going to make it bigger so I'm gonna make it bigger. Right here with my duties scale tool and I'm gonna make it bigger so that it matches the size of the actual quarters that I have here. Right about like that it's put into position this make sure we got a good size there right about yeah we got a good size so now. We have about a point now when we -- take this guy around let's go see it from the other side again now. Is a great side and is a greenside so now going to do is applied. These new faces that we have here this is turn off the side a little bit. Now in the background here there's -- background let's just go in there and the so that was they they wiped. We don't really need those coins anymore we've got them here separated. So now let's go to my. 3-D. Panel on the fact let's -- panel I guess it could -- him to be doing next and I'm gonna go to that -- it contains the point there it is it's called a -- It's good to name those layers of that we know where we are right. Okay so this is amateurism go to materials. Which is this one here. The third -- materials and we see we have the cylinder that's a great part the top which is to do and the bottom which is degree. If we click on these we'll be able to see did that blue collar. Is that green color this guy here allows us to see exactly what's being picked. I read the the mesh but we're gonna go right here -- the materials again so here's the top the two which right now is that we do. So want to do is I'm gonna go into this so. Icon here I'm gonna go and I say load a texture. And what I have here which is in my. Corn folder I have the face -- this -- here that you see it classic open that and you're gonna see that the face is -- did now on the cooling. So I'm not going to rotate the going. We'll put it aside. And see the bottom of the material. Which organized manner as say noted texture -- hair which I'm going to use the tail. Open and the -- going to fall right in place there is that is not lighting on this that's why it's so dark. But there's -- corn and and now has two faces now the side stuff that ribbing. Now if you look at a quarter and do it takes second look deep pockets by a quarter got these nice little ribs on the side we now have to create that -- would -- Everything's a little more tricky because the fact that it is really does have you texture to it so. My background layer here I'm building on top of it. Right there and let's zoom in a little closer. And create along the little selection. Make this long of the rectangle. I like that now this trick I was gonna represent a single red there's get a little closer on this now."
" Is how little bit I'm gonna go ahead and fill that with a 50% gray. So we did before in that later -- going to go into my. Layer style sort of double click on it brought up the -- thousand -- give it a little."
" Double the boss increase the depth so you really strong likes and -- And have the light coming from a little more like this angle here. -- doubling the size down to say let's see what to move like there's a -- is nice soft edge there with push that highlight stronger and the shadows darker. And it softened up a little bit so it's little more of a soft kind of an edge. Click okay now we have the light to dark. So now. That little -- up there. And here we don't want those who want to do is I'm going to diesel electric in my selection tool put down my option alt key and I'm gonna. Top portion and his bottom portion take it just is there a rating here because this area here is just a single red. With the continuous tone of the highlights to shadows. I'm gonna turn that into a pattern. So I'm gonna say defined pattern. All right so now. We could put out there a way it's gonna do -- anymore good here I'm pretty new file. I'm new file and right now it's 280. That's -- a -- this code 400. On the with that's good click okay and -- a film that. With that pattern which has created. There this click okay I got these little lines so -- wanna save this save as. -- I put that on my desktop so I know exactly where this. -- S and -- thing about it it coming back to our little coin here. And we look outside and this heart virtualization. That's because right now to render setting is set to. Well let's go see what -- it. Is that's get out to be coal mine and we go to -- settings and we see that it's set to solid it's not very clean. I go to great traces going to be a lot cleaner but we're at a -- is and it's gonna take longer to to do draw it so let's just leave it at the roughness right now. So now that similar material that's that great stuff. That's a great stuff go over here look at it see it's that great edge right in there so I'm Minnesota material. So what goes on here not to see. The other fuse which is what gave us that pictures that texture -- notice is actually a bump. See right here a bump it's a bump map it's going determined. The actual angles and shapes of this little edge so in the bond strength I can also Andy. Texture there is a little note the texture that's on my desktop is the little ribbing. I'm gonna say open that and it's going to create. There's my little -- on the side there let's up pull back to -- 1% and that's -- allow little corner here. And let's give it a little light just a legacy was -- happened here. From donors say let's give this a light -- right now has some -- so that's going in creating new. Spotlight. And died as a spotlight that C delights of this who they are there's a spotlight weighed down there. So I do do is to take the spotlight and kinda toilet this way and that's bring it up. Into this area here. And bring it towards us a little bit. And eight -- certain light up on out little quarter there and we -- toilet towards a quarter. There you go so we have this little. Thing a little like their eternal that I -- to see them anymore and there we could see how little quarter which weaken them. Rotate it around in Seattle like it's affecting an agency lived on the sides yet in the ribs get a picking up the shadows and highlights. They are. Long for -- to -- I would do. Spin this guy around."
" We have a actual three dimensional quarter that we can rotate and do anything we want to it so. We can animated. Twirling in the position whatever it is that we want to do we can do that now enough. Coming weeks we are going to actually creates a 3-D animations. So. We'll get deeper into how to animate this little object but dubbed -- bit -- that. Couple weeks ago who get into more intensity and that in the coming weeks. There's a lot of stuff that when there it is is a very simple object but. How complex the object is it what's on it that's all up view could you start to see some basic functions of -- let me think who work. And then you go in and start making modifications to create your three dimensional object whether it's a simple coin worried massive robot that's crushing his city and so on. There's anything you'd like to see on the show email me your suggestions to start at revision3.com. -- can check out the form that revision3.com. Forward slash forums where you can join discussions about the show and maybe even influence in the future show. Thanks again the cart could check for submitting our background image."
" This. UPI Leo. Remember your artwork can be back there instead it is green which is what I actually say -- that dream so we can put your stuff back there and put your name up like so everybody could see it annoy your friends c'mon everybody can see this stuff. Send your designs to be a bird at revision3.com. -- background has to be. Called baby by 720 pixels and a JPEG file. Those side dimension the very important that we get at the fit completely understand don't have to go through all this trouble of resize your image which sometimes. Things get cropped out. So. You can check out my latest book. Push out super -- digital painting to go to Amazon.com. Peach pit dot com or get links directly from my site for Monroe and I come. Where you can also get all information on what I'm gonna be. Our whole schedule of upcoming events and so on are all on there as little place we you can just going in and register for an upcoming event tunes in Cisco. Popular -- something this remember replace the best -- to see him bushels but see what they do they'll be afraid -- not gonna hurt program. Just go in there and push it if you do hey send Adobe a little bug report and can be very happy who knows with the good people. Join us again next week and thanks for watching hope to see yes."
" yeah and and."
" Yeah. Yeah."











