: How do I start designing a ribbon 3d with shadow Text in Photoshop? I just want to ask for some resources and as to how I could implement such in Photoshop: I saw this image online in

@Sims5801359

Alright there's a bunch of ways to do this but here's how I might approach it in Photoshop (very rough / quick job)

Start with whatever font you want to use and give it some background color to help while working on it:



Now you're going to use an outer glow for the background. The key for that is to change the blend to either Darken or Multiply otherwise you won't see the black color (cause it defaults to screen)



What really sets that image apart though are the small interior shadows to enhance the curvature. There's a bunch of ways you could achieve this and honestly what I did probably isn't the best. I just grabbed the marquee tool. For better results you'd probably want to duplicate the text, rasterize it, then use the pen tool to create curves, select, inverse, delete so you're left with an exact duplicate. Anyhow for demonstration purposes Marquee works:



Again there's a few ways to do this but I used an oversized soft brush. Radial Gradient would probably work just as well. Straight gradient wouldn't give the same result.



Then I used an oversized eraser to soften the bottom



Lighten the opacity a bit



And finally on a white background (the only interior shadow I did was the demo piece inside the 'W')

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@Shakeerah625

Drop Shadows are generally used to describe something directional with a light source. This effect you are looking at falls more under what would be called "outer glow".



Exaggerated examples of it I tend to not like (as with most in-your-face hey-it's-a-lens-flare kind of stuff). But when used subtly at a short spread it can be combined with (or take the place of) an outline stroke... to good effect in some cases.

As for the 3-D sensitivity of the shadow onto the text, if you're specifically asking about that, I might think that's a separate effect. It may be done by hand, or more likely the text was done in some gimmicky typography plugin/program that had a few stock 3-D FX. I would imagine that the outer glow is completely separate, just tinted to be the same color of gray from that source.

There simply isn't enough information in an average TrueType font or similar to generalize such an algorithm.

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