Just by experimenting with the Type tool and the 3D effect Revolve, you can use the alphabet to create a whole series of 3D objects.
Author: Dave Cross
For close to 25 years, Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative professionals get the most out of their software. Starting with Adobe Illustrator classes in 1987, Dave has taught Photoshop,Illustrator and InDesign to thousands of users around the world. He has a Bachelor of Education, is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS5 and is a Certified Technical Trainer. Dave has taught at Photoshop World (20 times), written numerous articles and several books, co-hosts Photoshop User TV and has appeared in many DVDs and online courses for Kelby Training. Dave is the Lead Instructor for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and runs his own studio/workshop space in Tampa, FL. Over the last 12 years, Dave has taught Photoshop in every state in the United States, throughout Canada and in Europe, consistently earning rave reviews. Dave is well-known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. In 2009 Dave was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
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That is friggin cool!
Off to try it for myself now!
That was cool!
Will give it a try!
I tried it and it is AWESOME!
Why won’t it let me create the same effect in a web document instead of just print. All my Effects are greyed out and won’t allow me to select them.
As always you guys rock, this is just too much fun.
Wow, this is so neat! Will definitely try this out.
Thank you!
Ooh, revolving the #2 looks really cool, and I could see using ( or ), too. Thanks for this great tip.
That’s excellent. I started trying out the Wingdings set and you get cool shapes with that.
Then I tried it with just Arial, and the { makes a cool candle stick holder and the } makes a good shape of a pill. And when you rotate it 45 degrees it makes a bowl.
So rotating the type gives it more posibilities. With 365 degrees in a rotation there is virtually billions of shapes you can create with the keyboard and the punctuation keys.
That’s an fantastic discovery.
Thanks for sharing.
this is really cool! thanks for sharing! the power of play!
AHHHH!!! love it!
This is awesome. Very funny. Will be fun to try with different crazy fonts!
very good lesson,sorry for my englisch i am flemisch
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