• Adobe Photoshop

  How to create this block letter effect?

  Posted by Devon Lee on June 27, 2011 at 12:20 am

  I need to know how to do this effect in Photoshop/Illustrator. Thanks for any help.

  

  Jaime Montaño replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Scott Valentine

  July 2, 2011 at 7:13 pm

  What version of PS do you have? In CS5 Extended, you’d do this with the Repoussé tool and simply extrude the text, using a scaling effect along with a short lens to get the appearance of depth.

  I haven’t done this in AI in long enough that I couldn’t tell you right off the bat.
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  Jaime Montaño

  July 5, 2011 at 6:02 pm

  I hope to be clear enough.

  – Create your text layer and duplicate it. Work in hires.
  – Decrease size and align both to center.
  – Reduce opacity of both at 50% so you can see behind.
  – Using the pen tool conect the dots between both and create shapes.
  – Add a bit of shading via soft brush and there you have it.

  I’ve done this in 5 minutes.

  

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