• Adobe Photoshop

  Preparing Paths for 3D

  Posted by Jason Hadden on May 12, 2009 at 1:34 am

  I’m having a problem creating proper paths in Photoshop. Here’s my problem.
  I create a text in photoshop. I then select all the letters and create a work path from the selection.
  Next, I export the path as an illustrator file. Finally, I open the illustrator file in my 3D editing program as a 3D model. This is the same technique I’ve used with basic shapes, but when using text I’m having this problem: the letters are closed, they’re solid shapes. For example, the letter “o” is a solid filled circle, the letter “d” has the round part of the letter filled in. So my question is, how do I prepare my paths so that the letters have the proper areas “cut out” as needed, and are not filled completely around their outer edges? Or, is this a problem I need to fix in Illustrator? Thanks in advance.
  PS – before anyone asks, this is text I can not make in Illustrator, it needs to be made in Photoshop only for design reasons, and my own limited knowledge of how to use Illustrator.

  Jason Hadden replied 16 years, 12 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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