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3D Text

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 – running time 15:37
2D might be cool for Flat Stanley, but it isn't for text. In previous episodes, Bert showed us how to bling and pimp our text and in this episode he is going to demonstrate how we can add a whole new dimension to our words. That is right!! 3D text!!

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Highlights
3-D ( 1:52, 8:33, 1:52, 8:33 ) Blu-ray ( 13:04, 13:04 ) raster ( 3:15, 3:15 ) shadow ( 8:45, 9:06, 9:16, 9:32, 9:59, 12:43, 12:45, 12:46, 12:49, 13:29, 13:33, 13:54, 8:45, 9:06, 9:16, 9:32, 9:59, 12:43, 12:45, 12:46, 12:49, 13:29, 13:33, 13:54 ) 3-D ( 1:52, 8:33, 1:52, 8:33 ) Blu-ray ( 13:04, 13:04 ) raster ( 3:15, 3:15 ) shadow ( 8:45, 9:06, 9:16, 9:32, 9:59, 12:43, 12:45, 12:46, 12:49, 13:29, 13:33, 13:54, 8:45, 9:06, 9:16, 9:32, 9:59, 12:43, 12:45, 12:46, 12:49, 13:29, 13:33, 13:54 )

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" Hi welcome -- apart from -- on February for -- on the Photoshop stuff. How I think my sponsors godaddy.com. Start them and tell you that they have a special going on that if you type in. Pixel like you right here on the screen. When you check out and get journalists dot com domain name you can get up for just 695. Years to musical special. So if -- go to godaddy.com. For all -- Internet needs -- well. Host to upside the head of your domain name and then design a site for you check them out godaddy.com. Right now what do budget requests. And what of them deals with treaty text. Just in. And tender and we got that right. Bob Marley is Bob owners actually get your page one of my books -- do what I do in the book on the screen. And I'm Mike -- just mention a -- Google lot of you out there want to see. We need text now he do have the ability extra food text in illustrator ballot developing of -- Because the idea Photoshop. Using three is a little bizarre because Photoshop and illustrator of both to -- program. They don't actually had the third dimension built into. They emulate that there dementia with a lot of cool tricks but not true 3-D. In fact when you apply at three dimensional effect or exclusion that things and illustrator its handling individual objects it doesn't really having. Focal plane where everything's gonna fit in the same dimensions so. It's a -- There are a couple of examples that they used and one of the example that some people use is one of my own pieces. Which are gonna show you here if -- and here. There's a difference to the treaty text first it's extra credit and also its hollow Texas hollow. Readiness team received the word hamburgers and zoom in on these -- age in a year and we see that the text has the depth to it. And its hollow. The letters are actually -- inside and ending on Toobin side so his all of these different areas that create that illusion of the third dimension. To create the illusion of that and actual shape says going to recreate you hear from scratch not start my text tool. And right here in the middle I'm gonna type in. -- That's good enough right there word you know now. You Dominic New York about it words I use. I -- doing this is I'm going to skew it into their dimension but -- that an outspoken right I don't go ahead and raster rises. On here to my layers layers palate go to restaurants and restaurant type which turns it into actual pixels. Not distort distant third dimension. Do that I used to transform and distort. And pulled aside out. Will decide over like that on the -- down here."

" And over and over like that there had a -- treaty text. Now we need to give it some depth. So. And duplicate it. And I don't get it again at three of maternal BI and the bottom one but this one here I'm gonna move over move this -- down. It's about like that. Except that's excellent angle here I'm gonna shrink it down but analysts scale that. This the other one just a little bit because it's a little further away with the smallest and just the Google. Uniform scale like that -- now my my idea. Shift key to constrain big scale but right about like that that's part down I want this to click okay -- make it so now. On here to duplicate that -- extras. It's not the iPod duplicates. I think the top one and reduced capacity orbit second seat through just like that. And the frightened and I'm gonna give it color to its going there and walk the transparency. And it's got a nice. -- And I'm gonna go ahead -- that was read but it is nice red text and I can really see what's underneath that okay the icy to read on top of the the black so it does create the shapes that are besides these letters to do that I use my pencil. Now using the bottom and as a guide I'm gonna go here and create vector is that going to encompass. Those side shapes. Yes like that they give myself would be. Like that. Do the bottom part down here. Through their crisis. And that would be. And this has to be moved downloaded wanted to be pretty accurate and just move those handles. It's like that and this one up here. That there. It needed there come here and here and given little extra space it -- it -- that we need the know pretty much has a separate here. -- little quarter to fill that in there. -- and -- at the top there. -- here. That little edge. Here. There. Give that -- and again I'm gonna just go in here and invested so -- right on the edge to us like that. And think that there's those next of shapes. So let's give depth background color. Something else is -- back here -- the transparency. And -- make that a or it's just say we make that a darker version of this thread here. And go ahead and -- that. Okay so get that dark red down there now these little edges I'm gonna select those two paths this one. And this one. And in that same where I -- an unlocked transparency and go ahead and fill those two. Take that path and that that build up that little space pregnancies and now we have makes hard edged. So now. I comment paths in my path so and there. Above this and -- later -- there and right there I'm going to go in here and turn this path here. And to selection make an even darker version of -- that's. 02. Let's say even dark like this. And my passing go ahead and -- that. -- did it really dark as behind it when I bring back the passing of the top -- you can see that edge right this one down here. I'm gonna make it a black. So that one with -- black. That's the bottom part rate there and in this guy right here that's going there and -- use -- same read here. And it go ahead and do that. That. All right so now let's take our capacity for the top and bring about a 100% now we could see that we have that to others. We can add additional things going on here that -- as -- have to -- that the why does the -- doesn't so. In the background layer I'm gonna go in and add some tones so when you use my dodge and burn tools. To get my dodge tool here and it's a little bigger. And just kinda lighten outside regime in Baghdad and a little light in here as well in my burn tool. Human until maybe bigger and I'm just in my job open closed bracket keys on the darkened bottomed out here. -- although it out of black just at the bottom of the of the why I get the black end here and thinking appeal in the dark in that area right. Make it nice and dark. Shadows. So now we see that the letters has some depth to them. So now when I need to do. It's clean the inside of these matters. There's an inside they are cavities inside where we could put some neon or whatever -- want it they can right we want to get these guys who that. If created 3-D effect we can add some shadows here and tech when we do that -- do that yet it's in some shadows so that's going here and -- equities that we have. And let's get -- and drop shadow. Dropped shattering here. We'll take that distance and move it over. And -- and have been an angle click okay I see that. It looks good on the governor doesn't look very good on the why. Because the fact that right there that just doesn't look right you know I do is I'm gonna take that drop shadow and separated from Blair. And come up here go to their styles. And say create there. Which would give me a separate layer for the drop shadow. So now here is that drop shadows and I can go in there and fill out this little area right in there. And there has to select that little area I fill that with black. And going to soften that. It's often that -- would be soft like the rest of shadow and everything that a properly and shadows is that the angle is all it needed there to make that look right. Okay so now what we need the cavities. And it turned on -- on top into a selection and clicking on them and then I got these letters down here. He's the ones below that's just make sure that the right ones can note there's. This one right here that's the that's the one that's the original shadow and this is the one that's below -- there okay so I'm gonna do. It. Let's -- these guys back on. A guy got that selected I'm gonna take this layer here. And with my my command key and my option key press that's control and alt I'm gonna click on it since I currently have a selection. When I option click option click on these with the command key it's going to. So track. And -- like Etsy. It's attracted so gaming it's election that exposes those areas in there has been back on the sides so now in the lay on top of all this. I'm gonna take those shapes. And -- with a -- That's going here and let's just say we picked this. Nice people on here or is this reddish color and go ahead and fill that with that -- There's the insides of the letters now which -- have to do some modifications. Solid kick my a lasso tool and is gonna go in here. And that's the selection right through. Now I could have very easily you -- again but I'm just gonna use this and go ahead and fill that. And down here. Here and do that. Still that. And here is another one. And bill that. Now -- it took that. Matt and click that reflect that it took that with the letters I don't see those little guys sticking out -- adding that's exactly what I want. Now I need to add some dimension to close. So in that I'm gonna take my burn tool and it's and -- up in there. And -- down in here. And that. Here. That. And I'm going to select. These areas and go right in here. That this breakthrough there. -- here. And we can -- this. -- there like that. Yeah and -- notes. That it really dark in there. There. And there. Enough I can add a little light to these so with my. Dodge tool and little highlight right there and it may be a little highlight right through here. Just give it new shape and maybe highlight right and message. -- and we wanna kind of segregate that to get hearted so it's to select that. Right to -- I -- that dodge tool will go in there. And -- that now there's a little shadow and if necessary there because we had a little shadow from the shadow breakdown here. Is -- meeting shadow in here so I'm gonna go in here and create pollution data from Mexico. Goes like this. This from across. Things that. And -- Blu-ray here. That's in -- like that. And in another layer. I go ahead and fill those with some black. And there. You go ahead and clip that. That is visible inside there and I am I want to put them behind. So -- inside that new area and in there and bring down their past he says that's a strong system the -- the -- shadow. Back in there same thing here I might wanna add a little shadow here I'm gonna just go ahead and do with. I'll hold you. Path. And follow record American here and fill that with the black. Yeah. We get these nice and shadows and soften them up a little -- we need one here too -- so this go in there and create this for the shadow. And there like that. Angle and so that black. I would think that whole thing and just to -- simpler just to soften those up. -- underpass to be a little bit more. That's go to layers palate. -- passing tests more so this is that the shadows. Inside and now we see that we have these cavities letters and -- three dimensional. Depth on the outside and on the inside. Now it went pretty fast the beauty of this is that it reminded us again. It's just a question of establishing those dimensions and I did that by having two different shapes I had the first letters and I had the second set vendors. Right there. The two -- together. -- that I that I use those as guides to create all the path that I needed. -- path for the shapes in between and they want to put everybody together we had to -- three dimensional looking text. And put this on channel there's -- Hope you got something for that. It's a question of looking at things studying how things work not sure how something's going to look wealthier couple -- to hold together light a machine how -- works out things like. Next -- show but talked about talk about some complicated shadows. Hope to see you better remember to place this way to learn. See you next."

" And."

" Hi welcome -- apart from -- on February for -- on the Photoshop stuff. How I think my sponsors godaddy.com. Start them and tell you that they have a special going on that if you type in. Pixel like you right here on the screen. When you check out and get journalists dot com domain name you can get up for just 695. Years to musical special. So if -- go to godaddy.com. For all -- Internet needs -- well. Host to upside the head of your domain name and then design a site for you check them out godaddy.com. Right now what do budget requests. And what of them deals with treaty text. Just in. And tender and we got that right. Bob Marley is Bob owners actually get your page one of my books -- do what I do in the book on the screen. And I'm Mike -- just mention a -- Google lot of you out there want to see. We need text now he do have the ability extra food text in illustrator ballot developing of -- Because the idea Photoshop. Using three is a little bizarre because Photoshop and illustrator of both to -- program. They don't actually had the third dimension built into. They emulate that there dementia with a lot of cool tricks but not true 3-D. In fact when you apply at three dimensional effect or exclusion that things and illustrator its handling individual objects it doesn't really having. Focal plane where everything's gonna fit in the same dimensions so. It's a -- There are a couple of examples that they used and one of the example that some people use is one of my own pieces. Which are gonna show you here if -- and here. There's a difference to the treaty text first it's extra credit and also its hollow Texas hollow. Readiness team received the word hamburgers and zoom in on these -- age in a year and we see that the text has the depth to it. And its hollow. The letters are actually -- inside and ending on Toobin side so his all of these different areas that create that illusion of the third dimension. To create the illusion of that and actual shape says going to recreate you hear from scratch not start my text tool. And right here in the middle I'm gonna type in. -- That's good enough right there word you know now. You Dominic New York about it words I use. I -- doing this is I'm going to skew it into their dimension but -- that an outspoken right I don't go ahead and raster rises. On here to my layers layers palate go to restaurants and restaurant type which turns it into actual pixels. Not distort distant third dimension. Do that I used to transform and distort. And pulled aside out. Will decide over like that on the -- down here."

" And over and over like that there had a -- treaty text. Now we need to give it some depth. So. And duplicate it. And I don't get it again at three of maternal BI and the bottom one but this one here I'm gonna move over move this -- down. It's about like that. Except that's excellent angle here I'm gonna shrink it down but analysts scale that. This the other one just a little bit because it's a little further away with the smallest and just the Google. Uniform scale like that -- now my my idea. Shift key to constrain big scale but right about like that that's part down I want this to click okay -- make it so now. On here to duplicate that -- extras. It's not the iPod duplicates. I think the top one and reduced capacity orbit second seat through just like that. And the frightened and I'm gonna give it color to its going there and walk the transparency. And it's got a nice. -- And I'm gonna go ahead -- that was read but it is nice red text and I can really see what's underneath that okay the icy to read on top of the the black so it does create the shapes that are besides these letters to do that I use my pencil. Now using the bottom and as a guide I'm gonna go here and create vector is that going to encompass. Those side shapes. Yes like that they give myself would be. Like that. Do the bottom part down here. Through their crisis. And that would be. And this has to be moved downloaded wanted to be pretty accurate and just move those handles. It's like that and this one up here. That there. It needed there come here and here and given little extra space it -- it -- that we need the know pretty much has a separate here. -- little quarter to fill that in there. -- and -- at the top there. -- here. That little edge. Here. There. Give that -- and again I'm gonna just go in here and invested so -- right on the edge to us like that. And think that there's those next of shapes. So let's give depth background color. Something else is -- back here -- the transparency. And -- make that a or it's just say we make that a darker version of this thread here. And go ahead and -- that. Okay so get that dark red down there now these little edges I'm gonna select those two paths this one. And this one. And in that same where I -- an unlocked transparency and go ahead and fill those two. Take that path and that that build up that little space pregnancies and now we have makes hard edged. So now. I comment paths in my path so and there. Above this and -- later -- there and right there I'm going to go in here and turn this path here. And to selection make an even darker version of -- that's. 02. Let's say even dark like this. And my passing go ahead and -- that. -- did it really dark as behind it when I bring back the passing of the top -- you can see that edge right this one down here. I'm gonna make it a black. So that one with -- black. That's the bottom part rate there and in this guy right here that's going there and -- use -- same read here. And it go ahead and do that. That. All right so now let's take our capacity for the top and bring about a 100% now we could see that we have that to others. We can add additional things going on here that -- as -- have to -- that the why does the -- doesn't so. In the background layer I'm gonna go in and add some tones so when you use my dodge and burn tools. To get my dodge tool here and it's a little bigger. And just kinda lighten outside regime in Baghdad and a little light in here as well in my burn tool. Human until maybe bigger and I'm just in my job open closed bracket keys on the darkened bottomed out here. -- although it out of black just at the bottom of the of the why I get the black end here and thinking appeal in the dark in that area right. Make it nice and dark. Shadows. So now we see that the letters has some depth to them. So now when I need to do. It's clean the inside of these matters. There's an inside they are cavities inside where we could put some neon or whatever -- want it they can right we want to get these guys who that. If created 3-D effect we can add some shadows here and tech when we do that -- do that yet it's in some shadows so that's going here and -- equities that we have. And let's get -- and drop shadow. Dropped shattering here. We'll take that distance and move it over. And -- and have been an angle click okay I see that. It looks good on the governor doesn't look very good on the why. Because the fact that right there that just doesn't look right you know I do is I'm gonna take that drop shadow and separated from Blair. And come up here go to their styles. And say create there. Which would give me a separate layer for the drop shadow. So now here is that drop shadows and I can go in there and fill out this little area right in there. And there has to select that little area I fill that with black. And going to soften that. It's often that -- would be soft like the rest of shadow and everything that a properly and shadows is that the angle is all it needed there to make that look right. Okay so now what we need the cavities. And it turned on -- on top into a selection and clicking on them and then I got these letters down here. He's the ones below that's just make sure that the right ones can note there's. This one right here that's the that's the one that's the original shadow and this is the one that's below -- there okay so I'm gonna do. It. Let's -- these guys back on. A guy got that selected I'm gonna take this layer here. And with my my command key and my option key press that's control and alt I'm gonna click on it since I currently have a selection. When I option click option click on these with the command key it's going to. So track. And -- like Etsy. It's attracted so gaming it's election that exposes those areas in there has been back on the sides so now in the lay on top of all this. I'm gonna take those shapes. And -- with a -- That's going here and let's just say we picked this. Nice people on here or is this reddish color and go ahead and fill that with that -- There's the insides of the letters now which -- have to do some modifications. Solid kick my a lasso tool and is gonna go in here. And that's the selection right through. Now I could have very easily you -- again but I'm just gonna use this and go ahead and fill that. And down here. Here and do that. Still that. And here is another one. And bill that. Now -- it took that. Matt and click that reflect that it took that with the letters I don't see those little guys sticking out -- adding that's exactly what I want. Now I need to add some dimension to close. So in that I'm gonna take my burn tool and it's and -- up in there. And -- down in here. And that. Here. That. And I'm going to select. These areas and go right in here. That this breakthrough there. -- here. And we can -- this. -- there like that. Yeah and -- notes. That it really dark in there. There. And there. Enough I can add a little light to these so with my. Dodge tool and little highlight right there and it may be a little highlight right through here. Just give it new shape and maybe highlight right and message. -- and we wanna kind of segregate that to get hearted so it's to select that. Right to -- I -- that dodge tool will go in there. And -- that now there's a little shadow and if necessary there because we had a little shadow from the shadow breakdown here. Is -- meeting shadow in here so I'm gonna go in here and create pollution data from Mexico. Goes like this. This from across. Things that. And -- Blu-ray here. That's in -- like that. And in another layer. I go ahead and fill those with some black. And there. You go ahead and clip that. That is visible inside there and I am I want to put them behind. So -- inside that new area and in there and bring down their past he says that's a strong system the -- the -- shadow. Back in there same thing here I might wanna add a little shadow here I'm gonna just go ahead and do with. I'll hold you. Path. And follow record American here and fill that with the black. Yeah. We get these nice and shadows and soften them up a little -- we need one here too -- so this go in there and create this for the shadow. And there like that. Angle and so that black. I would think that whole thing and just to -- simpler just to soften those up. -- underpass to be a little bit more. That's go to layers palate. -- passing tests more so this is that the shadows. Inside and now we see that we have these cavities letters and -- three dimensional. Depth on the outside and on the inside. Now it went pretty fast the beauty of this is that it reminded us again. It's just a question of establishing those dimensions and I did that by having two different shapes I had the first letters and I had the second set vendors. Right there. The two -- together. -- that I that I use those as guides to create all the path that I needed. -- path for the shapes in between and they want to put everybody together we had to -- three dimensional looking text. And put this on channel there's -- Hope you got something for that. It's a question of looking at things studying how things work not sure how something's going to look wealthier couple -- to hold together light a machine how -- works out things like. Next -- show but talked about talk about some complicated shadows. Hope to see you better remember to place this way to learn. See you next."