Photoshop Tutorial: Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes

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I'm an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CS4, i work as Teacher, Graphic Designer and Web Designer.

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This tutorial is absolutely stunning and beautiful
Rajita - Font June 4, 2008 at 7:26 am
I loved this tutorial and will help on my club flyer designs thanks man or wooman
Deuce Designz June 5, 2008 at 5:33 am
thankyou for this beautiful tutorial…:)
reza June 5, 2008 at 7:46 am
great man! tank for share it.. alla prossima.
sw June 5, 2008 at 12:56 pm
thanks for your nice tutorial
Zakh June 8, 2008 at 5:24 am
Cheers mate – it’s a great effect!
JBoy June 8, 2008 at 8:01 am
o pidar nice tutorial
4igan June 9, 2008 at 2:59 pm
nice tut
i ‘d ajust the brightness/contrast of the final image with
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Donderbus June 12, 2008 at 1:20 pm
What was the font that you used for the 3D text in Xara3D?
I can’t seem to find a font that is has strong and wide as the one that you used.
Jon June 12, 2008 at 8:39 pm
2 new but useful;) thanks
petro June 24, 2008 at 10:16 pm
It does not work for me. When you change the effects folder to ‘colour burn’ the clouds effect even the black background. I have followed your tutorial word by word and this step doesn’t work. It is does not come out like your screenshot
Rj June 25, 2008 at 8:23 pm
VERY NICE
KANEEZ June 28, 2008 at 1:57 pm
excellent job! Love the look.
Jay July 4, 2008 at 8:50 pm
and RJ, its color dodge….
Jay July 4, 2008 at 10:15 pm
for some reason when i add the “Colors” in step 6, the more colors i add, it ends up looking white. help?
Seth July 5, 2008 at 8:35 am
Wow! Your tutorial is amazing. I did get a little tripped up over step 5, but I experimented with it and within five minutes I got it! Kudos!
Joey C. July 8, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I enclosed a picture of my final product. Click my name! I forgot to add it before, whoops! ;D
Joey C. July 8, 2008 at 5:49 pm
This looks amazing, goign to have a play around with it myself.
Nice one
Matthew 'Web Design' Adams July 23, 2008 at 12:54 pm
hi how do i bring text from xara3d to photoshop? Thanx
Newbe July 28, 2008 at 12:26 am
:D cheek http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/7038/finalir3.jpg
Really thaaanks
Aroldo July 31, 2008 at 3:02 am
This tutorial is amazing . If you interested in Photoshop there are number of nice videos tutorial of photoshop effects on http://www.codervods.com/Default.aspx?mode=default&category=Adobe%20Photoshop&days=All&currentIndex=0
Thanks
Liza August 5, 2008 at 1:42 pm
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you ……………………. endlessly.
khalil August 9, 2008 at 9:29 am
Im getting really stuck on part 6 to 7,I have the pink cloudy thing over the text,but in the next step it look like its just text? How do I get mine like this?
lucie August 13, 2008 at 5:30 pm
hmm. Nice.
hell August 14, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I found this quite hard to follow. I tried my hardest to follow it but the end product was just not as good :| Oh well
Matt August 15, 2008 at 1:04 pm
this doesn’t work, at step 5 you say to change the blending mode to soft light but in your pic it’s at normal and when it’s to soft light it disappears changing the hue of the letters to pink there’s no cloud, your tut is full of useless fluffy language that doesn’t speak the same language as photoshop, “flick of the wrist” and “sprinkle of pink” keep your diction simple so all can understand and correspond certain words to terms used within photoshop. but please explain why i’m not getting the right result, try your explanation word for word and don’t go outside of those directions and you’ll see it won’t work
Bubs August 17, 2008 at 7:57 am
nvm that i got it to work, but it seems like you have steps jumbled up with pics, bad flow. but still fix the diction
Bubs August 17, 2008 at 8:15 am
Pretty Cool My Friend It’s Look Awsome Thnk You A Lot
‘ ThE-WaR’
ThE-WaR August 18, 2008 at 1:13 pm
First, thank you for the excellent tutorial. One thing I want to point out to everyone: make sure that your document is in RGB mode rather than CMYK. If it isn’t, the clouds aren’t going to lay over the black background properly and none of this is going to work.
Dustin September 27, 2008 at 8:40 pm
TY for this tut i made a amazing cold ice sign
here is a link
http://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?image=coldicecopyyg0.jpg
Beattie282 October 27, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Is it possible to save the result on a transparent background?! i have a gradient background and would like to use it on there….!
Pablo_tetch October 31, 2008 at 1:40 pm
cool. Do you know how to animate it?
jesica November 6, 2008 at 12:26 am
perfect and i enjoy lots man thanks man cheers!..
Guru December 8, 2008 at 8:37 am
cheers mate, is that downlod at the bottem the psd file because no matter what i do it doesnt ork on my version of photoshop (7.0) i would just like the psd file used so i can just change my text! is that possible?
Chas December 22, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Tracked back to from here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/the-10-absolute-best-tutorials-of-2008/
Eric Shafer December 30, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Merci that’s awesome! You rock! Im attempting it now :)
Chris January 5, 2009 at 1:43 am
NICE TUTORIAL BUT THE FILE PSD IS NOT OPEN WITH WINRAR………………..HELP…I NEED THAT FILE…..
i mean the file of ” cold ice ”
djhamdi January 14, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I also can’t unzip the file? … any further information?
Marlon January 15, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Thanks!
MFX Design Iasi January 20, 2009 at 8:31 am
Here’s my result. Did smoke extras and whatnot.
http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cloudyalekryanjs3.png
Alek January 21, 2009 at 7:14 am
YO
JUSTEN February 2, 2009 at 9:13 pm
download error . Try to upload it again
LuisRichard February 12, 2009 at 4:30 pm
what is the wrist-flick technique
G-Rod February 16, 2009 at 4:54 am
real greatful !
negah-3d February 27, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Awesome, I’m gonna make it. Thanks!
REO March 5, 2009 at 7:01 pm
The download file is corrupted. I think there is something wrong with how it was zipped.
REO March 5, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Whoa. It took me 30 minutes on the dot. Thank you so much! Love it!
SB March 5, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Didn’t work. have spent over 4 hours trying to see if I missed a step. I have gone over and over and IT DOESN’T WORK.
Corey Osborne March 10, 2009 at 3:38 am
You lost me on steps 5 & 6, I dont get the same results. Having them placed only inside the text, I have tried several different approaches and none give me the results you show. Any ideas?
Scott March 10, 2009 at 9:46 pm
file zip is corrupt, please another mirror… thx a lot…
codigo March 13, 2009 at 7:30 pm