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Start by creating each letter separately in a 3D program, I use
Xara3D (download the
Xara3D 6 trial to your Desktop, run the installer file and follow the on-screen instructions), and import them into a
Photoshop document.
Create a new file in
Xara3D and represent here by turn the letters composing
LOVE word.
Select for the beginning the text options by clicking on the
Text Options icon:
… and then the
Color options:
… set the
Extrusion options:
Also the
Bevel Options
Then we have to set also the
angle of the letters’ position on the file and the
light:
Set
angle and the
light for letter
‘O’:
Set
angle and the
light for letter
‘V’:
Set
angle and the
light for letter
‘E’:
Choose now
Export to File and save each letter. Create a new document (
Ctrl+N) in
Adobe Photoshop with the size
1920px by
1200px (
RGB color mode) at a resolution of
72 pixels/inch. Use the
Paint Bucket Tool (G) to fill with
black color the new background layer.
Select the
Custom Shape Tool (U) in the
Tools bar, in the
Options bar click the
Shape to open the selection menu. Find
Registration Target 2 shape at the bottom of the menu, and then double-click a shape thumbnail to select it.
Click and drag to draw the shape with
#C00000 color.
We’ve got the next result:
Rasterize the entire layer contents,
create a new empty layer below the layer with rays effects and
Merge Down (
Ctrl+E on
Windows/
Command+E on
Mac). Click on the bottom part of the
Layers panel on
Add layer mask icon, click on mask to make it active and select a
Soft Round brush of
black color
click several times on the middle part of the document using
Soft Round brush.
Press
CTRL+I to
Invert the colors and click once again on the middle part of the picture.
Set
Fill to
59% for this layer
Rasterize the layer by
creating a new empty layer below the layer with rays effects and
Merge Down (
Ctrl+E on
Windows/
Command+E on
Mac). Choose for the layer the next filter:
Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur
We’ve got the next result:
Set
Fill to
55% for this layer in
Layers panel:
Create a new layer and apply the
Soft Round brush to make lighter the central part of the document. The color is
#FF0000 (Opacity 50%).
The layer will be situated under the rays’ layer.
Set
Fill to
59% for this layer in
Layers panel:
Create a new layer and apply the
Soft Round brush mentioned above to paint the central part of the document with the color
#C00000
Set
Fill to
44% and change the
Blending mode for this layer to
Vivid Light
Insert the earlier saved letters of the
LOVE word. Keep each letters in its own layer, and then arrange them around each other, in whatever way looks good to you.
Go to
Layer Style to add
Stroke for each layer containing the letters.
Next we need to
create new layer and using the
Pen Tool (P) in
Path Mode draw the next path on the frontal part of the letter
‘L’.
Set
Fill to
0% and click on
Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the
Layers panel and select
Gradient Overlay:
Click in the color bar to open the
Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click
OK to close the
Gradient Editor dialog box.
Add also the
Stroke
We’ve got the next effect on the letter
Using the same
Pen Tool (P) in a
new layer we must represent the frontal part for letter
“O”. Firstly we need to draw the outer shape of the letter
“O” and close off the path, then select the path in
Paths panel, go to
Pen Tool (P), choose
Subtract from shape area option from
Options bar and draw in where the hole should be.
Set
Fill to
0% for this layer and go to
Layer Style to add
Gradient Overlay
Click in the color bar to open the
Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click
OK to close the
Gradient Editor dialog box.
Also set the
Stroke
We’ve got the next result:
Create new layer and using the
Pen Tool (P) in
Path Mode draw the next path on the frontal part of the letter
‘V’.
Set
Fill to
0% and click on
Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the
Layers panel to select
Gradient Overlay:
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