This adobe photoshop tutorial will show you on how to make a 3D text effect with photoshop.

Make a new file with 600px width and 300px height, and with #51676b as background color, you can change this when making the new file.

Type in your preferred text, I used a default font so you won't have to download anything making this tutorial, the font I used is "Impact" which is available on all windows installations.

I used color #33515e for the text, I advice you to use the same colors as me to get the same effect, after the tutorial it's wise to experiment with different colors and some minor changes to the effect.

Rasterize the layer, right click text layer in layers window > Rasterize layer. Now we can perspective the layer, without rasterizing we can't do a perspective on text.

> Edit > Transform > perspective, then go to the top right corner box and drag it to the middle top, the effect we want with this is to have a small back and bigger front so it looks more 3d in the end. Also try to drag the other 3 corners if you don't get the similar effect to me which is shown below:

Now we're going to make the base that's going under the the main text layer, the 3d look which we'll see in the end result.

Make sure you got the text layer selected in the layers window, then HOLD alt on your keyboard and press the up arrow on your keyboard 10 times. Holding alt and pressing an arrow key makes a new layer and moves it 1 pixel in this case up.

Right click Layer copy 5 > Blending options // "Layer is the name of the layer, in my case it's Celox."

And change the color overlay to:

Right click Layer copy 10 > Blending options, check Bevel and Emboss, and Color overlay then change the settings below:

Duplicate the lowest text layer in the layers window, photoshop automaticly selects the duplicated layer but we don't need that one, select the layer beneath it.
Go to Filter > Blur > Motion blur, and use an angle of 90 degrees, and distance 30 pixels, hit OK.



Group all the text layers in one group, name the group Text layers, if you don't know how to make groups follow this tutorial

Make a new layer outside the Text layers group, name this layer brushing, take a 210px brush size and a soft brush, set foreground to white (Hit D on your keyboard, then X).

Then brush the sides of the text a bit and some corners, but beware don't brush to much!

My text with brushing:



Make a shine and a star, If you don't know how to just ask in the comments or shoutbox! They are very simple and I will explain it to you if you ask nicely ;).

My end result: