Step 1: Creating the Workspace:
Create a 400 x 100 pixel document
Step 2: Create the Text
Next grab your text tool and have the following settings set:
Make the text colour black #000000 And write some text on your document:
Step 3: Convert To Shape
Then right click on the text layer and select Convert to shape. Then go to Edit > Transform and then choose Perspective. Your text should now have a box around it plus a outline around the text itself:
With your mouse click on the box in the right hand corner and drag it out to the right. Until you get some like this:
Apply the changes when it asks you. Now you should still have a outline going around your text. This is meant to be there!
Step 4: Pull down the text
Making sure you have the text layer selected hold Ctrl + Alt and press the down arrow 6 times till you end up with something like this:
Next select the very first text layer that you started with, my layers look like this and I would select this one:
Drag this layer to the top.
Step 5: Apply some settings
Then right click on the layer and click Blending Options. Apply these settings:
Inner Shadow:
Colour Overlay:
Stroke:
Once you have done this your text should look like this:
Step 6: Your not done yet
Finally on the layer below the layer we have been working on. Right click and select Blending Options once more and apply a Drop Shadow with these settings:
Once you've done that your text should look like this:
The Final Result:
And there we have it a simple method of getting 3D looking perspective text!
