3D Text in Corel Photopaint - Create a 3D Text or Object Effect without a 3D App!
June 1st, 2006
Step 3:You can skip this step if you want to, but I always find that doing this on straight text with no perspective alterations looks a bit weird. So, for those of you following along, we’ll use the 3D Perspective Effect tool to alter the perspective of the text. It’s a cool little tool and you have a variety of different methods to play with the text.
In this particular example, I decided to pinch the top inwards a bit… this changes the perspective to appear as though we’re looking at the text from the ground, peering up at the massive letters that tower above us! *trembles in fear*
Step 4:We’re about ready to start creating the “3D” look to our text. Get started by doing a copy/paste of our main object layer and creating a duplicate. You should now have 3 Object Layers: The background, and two copies of the text.
Step 5:We’ll need to fill that second layer of text with a solid dark color, so let’s pick a color, select the fill tool and then color in the object.
Pick a dark fill color… I went with a dark grey:
Click on the Fill Tool (or hit F):
Now click on each letter in the text to fill it with our new fill color:
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[...] You may recall that a couple of months ago, I posted a fairly simple tutorial on how to create pseudo 3D text in Corel Photopaint, which was an easy effect to create, and could achieve a fairly high degree of realism in terms of lighting and shadows. Well today I would like to take that tutorial one step further and create a similar effect, but show you how to add a lined wire-frame to the text for that added 3D punch. This looks great on squared text types, but with the right kind of tweaking, you could pull this off with anything. In fact, the final effect almost resembles pixel art: [...]
This is a great tutorial, it even works with PhotoPaint8. Thanks so much, after all these years I’m still learning new things to do with it.
Ruth