Create Spectacular Style Text Effect

In this tutorial we’ll create a cool looking 3D Style text effect.Begin your work with creating a new file of 1280×1024 px and 72 dpi.

Then we shall use the Rectangle Tool (U) to draw the background of the picture to be.

Set the next shown parameters for the made new layer by making a mouse click on this layer in the layers’ palette. Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

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Animated Earth

There are tons of tutorials describing how to draw our Earth. But all of them are static and they only show the Earth from one side. It is more interesting to see the globe rotating. I’ve decided to fill this gap and write a tutorial devoted to the Earth’s rotation.


Tip: If you want to repeat my steps using the picture resolution that I use, make sure your computer is powerful enough to handle it. Otherwise, you can reduce all the parameters and work with smaller images. I prefer to work with larger resolution, because I want to have more freedom while editing images, and to save the resulting image at a smaller size for better quality.

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