Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator CS3+
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Estimated Completion Time: 1 - 2 Hours
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Step 1
Open Illustrator and create a new RGB document, 1000px by 800px, 72 DPI, and write your text in a nice big font. I’ve used Marketing Script size 234pt.
Step 2
Next, with you text selected, go to Object > Expand, and hit ok on the pop up window. Our text is no longer editable as text, instead it’s a series of paths that we can edit with the direct selection tool.
Currently, our letters are separate objects grouped together, we want them to be one single compound path. We can do this using the Unite button on the Pathfinder Palette. If you don’t see the Pathfinder Palette, go Window > Pathfinder to show it, and with our paths selected, click Unite.
Step 3
With the Pen Tool (P) selected, draw a new path starting from the last flick of the last letter s, and swirling its way down underneath our type. I’ve also changed the color of the text to a lighter grey just so I can see what I’m doing better.
Change the Stroke Weight of our new path to a size that matches the width of the text path that it will be joining. In my case the Stroke Weight is 12pt.
Step 4
Duplicate this path by dragging the Group’s thumbnail (in the layers palette) to the New Layer button. Switch off this duplicate by clicking the ‘eye’ next the group thumbnail in the Layers Palette. We’re doing this because wherever our elements overlap we need them on separate layers in Photoshop for when we add shading.
With the Direct Selection Tool (A) select the two bottom-right Anchor Points of our path, hit Delete and name this group "swirl 1".
Turn this "swirl 1" group off and turn on the duplicate that we made, name it "swirl 2" and delete the following Anchor Points. We’re doing this because when we extrude our shapes into 3D, we don’t want our paths to intersect, we want one to pass in front of the other.
Step 5
Switch all our groups back on now and you should have the complete original path, only it’s broken up onto two different groups. With both of these Groups selected go to Object > Expand, and press OK on the pop-up window. Now we want to make our swirl a bit more interesting by adjusting the width in certain places. To do this we’re going to zoom in and move some Anchor Points manually.
Now zoom in to the end of our swirl and add two Anchor Points as shown below, then move them slightly up and to the right.
Now with the Convert Anchor Point Tool (Shift + C), adjust the two new Anchors to round off the corners.
Step 6
Next we need to tidy up the area where our text will join our swirl. Zoom in to that area and adjust the swirl path so it flows out nicely from out text
Step 7
OK, before we Extrude this shape, this is your last chance to adjust your swirl so now’s the time to make any final tweaks, it’s worth spending the time here to get your line work just right. When you’re happy with your design, change your object so they’re all the same color, a medium grey, then with all of them selected go to Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel.
Then with all our objects selected, go to Object > Expand Appearance.
You’ll notice that in some areas our objects don’t quite line-up as they should, reposition them slightly now, but you wont be able to get them perfect yet, that will take a bit of path editing, we’ll do that in a moment.
Step 8
Now turn off the two swirl layers, so you’re just left with the text. Select the text and Right-Click > Ungroup, then once more, Right-click > Ungroup. Now select the front surface of our text, and turn off this layer. You should now be left with the darker 3d elements.
Click and drag to select all of these remaining elements then click the Unite Button in the Pathfinder Palette and name this group "3d 1". If you don’t see the Pathfinder Palette, go to Window > Pathfinder. Uniting these objects joins them all as one Compound Path; it should also get rid of those little white lines. Repeat this process for the two elements that make up the swirl, naming then "3d 2" and "3d 3".
Step 9
You should now have six groups –
"text", "3d 1", "swirl 1", "3d 2", "swirl 2" and "3d 3"
Before we export this file to Photoshop, we just need to clean up the line work around where our text meets "swirl 1". Zoom in on that area with the Direct Selection Tool (A), edit the Anchor Points and their Handles to make the two seamlessly join together.
Now we’re ready to export this file to Photoshop as a Layered PSD. To do this go to File > Export and make sure you select Photoshop as the Format.
Step 10
Open the exported file in Photoshop and go Image > Canvas Size and enter 3000 x 2000px and press OK. Resize our layers (Cmd/Ctrl + T) while holding Alt + Shift, make them a comfortable size within the document.
Name and arrange your layers as follows, so we have three “base” layers (these are the light grey layers that make up the front face of our object), and three “3d” layers (the darker grey 3D elements).
Now group (Cmd/Ctrl + G) our three pairs of layers into individual groups named “1″ “2″ and “3″, so “1″ contains our text layers (“base 1″ and “3d 1″), “2″ contains “base 2″ and “3d 2″ and “3″ contains “base 3″ and “3d 3″.
Step 11
Create a new layer and place it below group "3", name it "bg" (for background) and fill it with white. Then create a new layer on top of "bg" and name it "bg2". Set your foreground color to grey #767676 and select the Gradient Tool (G). Choose a foreground to transparent gradient and draw our gradient from the top of the document down to the middle and set the layer transparency down to 30%.
Create a new layer on top of "bg 2" and name it "bg 3". Select the gradient tool and press D to set our foreground and background colors to black and white. With a foreground to background gradient selected draw a new gradient at the bottom of our document and change the layer to 10% Opacity. Group these three new layers and name the group "background".
Step 12
Now select “base 1″ layer and apply a Gradient Overlay Layer Style (Layer > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay) using colors #c81d61 and #d3347b.
Right click on "base 1" layer and select Copy Layer Style. Now select "base 2" and Cmd/Ctrl + Click on "base 3" so we have both layers selected, then right click on of the two and select Paste Layer Style. Double click on the Layer Style of "base 3" to open the Layers Palette and Reverse the gradient.
Step 13
Now we’re going to add a simple Color Overlay Layer Style to all our “3d” layers. Select “3d 1″ and apply a Color Overlay (Layer > Layer Style > Color Overlay) and use color #797979. Then copy this Layer Style (Right click > Copy Layer Style) and then paste it to “3d 2″ and “3d 3″.
Now create a new layer within group “1″ and name it “shine”. Our layers should now look like this.
Set white as your foreground color, select a foreground to transparent gradient and draw this gradient from the middle of the document up to the top of the text.
Cmd/Ctrl + Click on the “base 1″ layer thumbnail (this will load a selection based on that layer) then go to Select > Modify > Contract and use 2px as the amount.
Set this "shine" layer to 30% Opacity, then with this selection active and with our "shine" layer selected, click on the Add Layer Mask button located at the bottom of the Layers Palette.
Step 14
Now with the Layer Mask selected and your foreground color set to black, take a medium sized, hard edged brush and mask out more of the “shine” layer.
Create a new layer called “shine” and place it in group “2″ and draw another white to transparent gradient this time in a diagonal direction.
Cmd/Ctrl + Click on the layer thumbnail of "base 2" (to load a selection based on this layer) then Cmd/Ctrl + shift-click on the layer thumbnail of "base 3" (this will add a selection of "base 3" to our current selection). Once again we need to contract this selection by 2px, we do this by going Select > Modify > Contract > 2px. With our new "shine" layer selected, click the Add Layer Mask button in the bottom of the Layers Palette again to apply our selection as a mask. You should have something like this.
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