Dramatic Shadows in Photoshop CC

It has been quite a long time I’ve been thinking about creating a design with those very realistic shadows. This weekend I decided to give it a try. I started to think about what would be the best way, manually recreating that would be too much work. So I decided to try the 3D capabilities of Photoshop. It turned out to be the easiest and quickest way. The result was also very good.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a design with beautiful and dramatic shadows using the 3D in Photoshop CC. The process is very straightforward and it will take you less than 1 hour to achieve the same result.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create a new document, I used 2880×1800 pixels for the size. After that add some letters or the text you want to apply the shadow. I used “ABDZ” using Futura Medium for the font.

Dramatic Shadows in Photoshop CC

Step 2

Go to 3D>New 3D Extrusion from Selected Layer. Then select the 3D layer. In the 3D panel select the Extrusion layer and then start editing the properties.

Dramatic Shadows in Photoshop CC

Step 3

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