In this tutorial I am trying to show you how to be expert to use Illustrator 3D Extrude Options ? The extrude option of Illustrator is very easy to use and it will be awesome if you understand it how to use, this step by step tutorial will help you to be familiar with this power full option Adobe Illustrator.

Introducing Illustrator 3D Extrude Options

Lets take a look what we will create in this Illustrator 3D extrude options, follow me till the end of this tutorial to know all secret of this feature.

1. In this step I show to how make a 3D cube, and how to apply symbols to each surfaces of that cube, Open a new document and and draw big square as the size of the Art-board give it a color you like,then pick the Rectangle Tool and draw a perfect square.

2. Give any color to the square you like and select it and go to Filter> 3D> Extrude & Bevel Options it will open a new small window the only thing you need to do is follow the guide in image bellow.

3. OK, your square should looks like bellow, and now I want to put number on each side of that square, it is very easy to do it, pick the Pen Tool and write three numbers and drag and drop it into the symbol panel, I write 1,2 and 3 and save these as a symbols.

4. Now select the cube and go to Appearance panel and there will be the Extrude and Bevel Options, dabble click on it and, it will open the 3D extrude & bevel options, so open the Map Art options which is at the bottom  of this panel, in the Map Art panel you will see some options like Symbol, Surface and some other options, the symbol option help you to select the symbol you saved and the surface option help you to find the side or surface to set a symbol on it.

Your final result should looks like bellow.

That is it I hope you enjoy this tutorial and if you have any question feel free to ask in comment section bellow. thanks for following.

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This is a beginner tutorial for those who like to create 3D objects in Illustrator, during this  Illustrator 3D Revolve Options tutorial, we will introduce all the Illustrator 3D Revolve Options step by step to help you get familiar with this great feature of Adobe Illustrator. We will also create logo with this feature.

Introducing Illustrator 3D Revolve Options

Before we start the tutorial you need to install Adobe Illustrator on your system, its not matter which version of Illustrator you have, but if it is up to CS5 it would be better.

1. Open a new document go to File> New click it, or use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+N). So name your document (3D Revolve) use Basic RGB from profile presets and click OK. as I did in image bellow.

2. The 3D Revolve  works on any paths but its a little difficult to know how to create what you want, if you do not use this feature before, but we are going to explain it for you, so if you want to create an sphere, first draw a circle and use direct selection tool to remove one anchor point of that circle as bellow.

3. Now select the half circle and go to Effect> 3D> Revolve click on it, in 3D option you will see two more options (Extrude & Rotate) don’t worry about these two options we will introduce it in other tutorial. SO after clicking on 3D Revolve option a new window will pop up and your half circle changed to a nice sphere, the color or your sphere depend to the color of your circle. You can change it any time you want.

4. If you want to apply any image or other objects on you sphere, how to do that? It is very easy the first thing you need to to is make you material and save it into Symbol Panel. OK I create some lines then I grouped all and drag it to the Symbol Panel, a dialog box pop up click OK.

5. Now select your sphere layer and go to Appearance Panel there you will find 3D Revolve with orange color, click on it the 3D Revolve Options window will opened, click on Map Art Option at the bottom of the panel a new window will pop up as bellow.

6. You can use 3D Revolve Options on any other paths, so I want to make a bottle pick the Pen Tool and make a path as I did in bellow image.

7. Now select the path and go to Effect> 3D> Revolve then click OK, It will revolve the path to the shape of the path, you can edit the anchor points of the path, to make it perfect it automatically updated.

That is it! Hope enjoy the article and understand the usage of Illustrator 3D Revolve Options. If you have any question regarded to the article please leave comment bellow in comment section. Thanks for flowing.

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Related to Photoshop Tips articles, I have wrote this to show you how to create metal text in Photoshop. In this nugget we will be working with some advanced features and options of Photoshop. For creating this article I going to create metal text effect Photoshop. Also we will learn something new about channel, Filter menu lighting effect and Clipping Mask.

How to Create Metal Text in Photoshop?

1. Press ctrl+N for creating new document with 800 widths and 400 height pixel. After creating the document press T or go to Shape section of tools and then select type tool.

Note: You can select any font by your own desire. I have selected Bernard MT Condensed Font. After selecting type tool change its color code to 000000 which is black and type anything you want.

2. After typing Teching we need to rasterize our layer. We can rasterize our layer into two ways:

• A: Right click on the layer in layer panel and then select rasterize type.
• B: Go to Layer in menu bar select rasterize- type.

3. Here we need to load selection. In order to do this, press Ctrl on the keyboard and left click on the Technig layer. After this go to channel panel, if it is not enabled, go to window menu- check channel.

Here we need to create a new channel in channel Panel by clicking on the Icon in channel panel.

4. After you create a new channel, your preview will change into selection and your background will be black.

5. I need to change it’s color into white by pressing Ctrl+Backspace, and press Ctrl+D to Deselect the selection.

Note: Press D on the keyboard to select Default colors in foreground and background then press Ctrl+Backspace.

6. After applying them go to Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur and put it’s amount to 5 pixels.

7. Till this step our work is finished with channel panel, instead go to Layer panel.

8. After reaching into layer, press Ctrl+Shift+N to create a new layer. And then press Shift+F5 or you can reach by navigating Edit Menu-Fill to open Fill dialog box, select 50% gray and click OK. Your background will be change to Gray color.

9. Go to Filter – Render – Lighting Effect and apply these settings.

10. Go to Layer and select create clipping Mask and your result will be like below screenshot.

Also If you want more lighting effects and more editing in your project you can apply them by navigating Image Menu – Adjustments and apply any effect which you want, just like this Image.

Note: If you make this project in previous versions of Photoshop It will look more attractive. Since Adobe has merged lighting effects with 3D one of it’s important role has been dismissed.

But again If anyone wants to create this project in previous versions, they can give their feedback, and I will here for helping you to create metal text in Photoshop. I hope you have created your own name with this designing article inside Photoshop.

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Every time we use 3D Panel for creating 3D design on texts or other 3D animation projects. This time let’s create 3D wooden text in Photoshop. So, in this Photoshop Tips articles, I will not use 3D panel for creating this design, I simply will use its own text with some editing on the text to give 3D effect.The only purpose of creating this project is introducing type tool- also you will learn a new trick for copying and pasting image form one tab to other tab, You will learn simple usage of mask and color range, so let’s go ahead and start creating 3D wooden Text in Photoshop

How to create 3D wooden Text in Photoshop?

1.  Press Ctrl+N to create a new document by 1200 pixel width and 600 pixel heights, and then press Ctrl+O to open, Open dialog box and select wood_tex file.

2. Although there are many methods to copy an image, but I want you to know more about tips and tricks of Photoshop.

For coping wood tex go to layer and then select Duplicate layer, a new window will appear which is known as Duplicate Layer, but instead of selecting wood tex, select wood in Destination and click OK.

After clicking Ok go to wood tab, there you can see, your image was being copied and pasted to the wood tab without wasting too much time by pressing Ctrl+ A, Ctrl+ C and Ctrl+ V on the keyboard.

3. It seems the image which we copied is too large. For making it small or fit with the image press Ctrl+T to enable Free transform and then press Alt+Shift to enable aspect ratio, for making it small form its middle.

4. Next Press T on the keyboard to select Type tool, but remember select Horizontal type tool.

Note: First time while pressing T on the keyboard, it will select Type Tool, but for selecting other types of type tool press Shift+T, until you select Horizontal type tool. 

5. After selecting Horizontal type tool type anything you want like preview article. After typing press enter on the keyboard or check it in the control panel of type tool under the menu bar, and your text shape will change to selection.

6. For creating your text like wood, press Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V to paste it. Now you can delete or hide, wood background. Till here your project will look like this.

7. Here we need to create 3D Effect in our text. For creating 3D effect press Ctrl+J to copy and paste it above its own layer. And then go to layer panel, press Ctrl and click on the text layer to load selection,then press D on the keyboard to select Default color in foreground and background, which is white and black and white color, and then press Alt+backspace to fill with black color.

8. Here we need to create shadow in our project.  Press Ctrl+T to enable Free transform, press Alt+Shift to rize it.

9. Put it under the wooden text to look like shadow, and then select polygonal lasso tool, and then create a new layer set selection to the corner of text and change its shape like this.

Note: Remember to change them those places which I circled with red color in capture image.

10. Press Ctrl+O to open, Open dialog box and open wood_tex3. Here you can fallow step 2 to copy it, and put it in in our project.

11. Go to the shadow text which we copied before in step 8 for creating shadow. Again go to layer panel press Ctrl on the keyboard and click on the shadow layer to load selection, and then go to wood_text3 layer, press Ctrl+J to duplicate the selected area.

Here you can see it shadow has been changed to wood.

12. Again press Ctrl+ O to open, Open dialog box, but this time select brick_tex image to put it as its background. After opening, it will move automatically in its own tab, for bring that into your project go to layer-duplicate layer and select its destination to your project. If you had problem in this part. You can visit part 2 which was completely explained.

13. In layer panel we do not need any more other image except these three layers, which is Technig, Shadow which I have renamed Bevel and our background.

14. For looking more attractive we need to apply some more effects in text to look more like 3D. I will start applying more effects by going to Blending options of Technig layer, and apply these settings.

After applying those settings go to Inner shadow and apply these settings.

15. In this step I want to create shadow of the both type tools. In order to do this, create a new layer and then press Ctrl on the keyboard and click on the technig layer to load selection, again while Ctrl was pressed, press Shift and then click on the Bevel layer to load selection of both layer.

While selection was loaded press D on the keyboard to apply default color settings in foreground and background which is white and black, and then press Alt+ Backspace to fill with black color the selection. And put this layer under both of teching and bevel layer.

16. We need this shadow to look like a shadow not like this, in order to do this, go to Filter-Blur-Motion blur and apply these settings.

17. Somehow this shadow does not seem too nice, we need to erase some parts of it. We can erase it either by Eraser or mask. I recommend you to use mask because it gives the ability to come back if anything was wrong.

For creating mask click on icon in Layer panel and remove those places which I circled. Also press Ctrl+J to Duplicate shadow layer to look darker.

You can apply more effects to look more attractive, I had applied more effects, but due to, it will be so long I will stop Writing here, but If anyone wants to know more affects they can feedback in comment and I will introduce different other tips.

I Hope you have created your own name by following these step by step guide to create 3D wooden text in Photoshop.

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