How To Create A 3D Movie Poster In Photoshop

Photoshop is not a full fledged 3D software and it can not create all the effects we would like to see in any 3D software. But it has many effects, which when used rightly, can create awesome 3D effects.

You may be wondering how Photoshop can be used to create 3D effects, worry not! We have come up with a wonderful tutorial in Photoshop, which will guide you step by step, to create a 3D Movie Poster, just by using Photoshop Techniques. In this tutorial we will learn how to convert a movie poster into a 3D movie poster.

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Step 1

Open Photoshop and open (ctrl + o) the image in it.

Step 2

To make the image look more better and interesting, lets make some changes to the image.
To start with open eye on fusion and call the image into it with the loader tool.

Step 3

Go to file> preferences
Goto frame format> create a new profile> Name it ‘Footloose Poster’ and make the following changes:
Width = 1349
Height = 2000
Frame rate = 24
File size = 16
(Same as the Image size)

Step 4

Add a Text 3D Tool (Tools>3D>Text 3D)
Write down 3D in it with an Arial Black Font
Change the Bevel depth to ‘0.1660819’

Also in the shading section change the colour to
Red = 0.6823529411765
Green = 0.5764705882353
Blue = 0.9411764705882
And specular settings to

Red, Green and Blue to 0.5686274509804 each.
Specular Intensity = 0.1052632

Step 5

Add a spot light (Tools>3D>Light> SpotLight), connect it to Text 3D (join both the Red Outputs so that a merge 3D is created) and move it to
Translate X = 1.08472
Translate Y = 0.9168134206591
Translate Z = 1.495973
Rotation X = -21.25822
Rotation Y = 35.65326
Rotation Z = 4.348969

Step 6

Add a Direction Light(Tools> 3D> Light> Direction Light) and reduce its intensity to 0.0497238

Step 7

Add a point light(Tools>3D>Light>Point Light) and change intensity to 0.55

Step 8

Add an Ambient Light(Tools>3d>Light>Ambient Light) and change intensity to 0.0497238

Step 9

Add a Camera 3D tool (Tools> 3D> Camera 3D) and move it to
Translate X = 0.954627793541
Translate Y = 0.4419056094258
Translate Z = 1.53529

Rotation X = -12.32788
Rotation Y = 29.839
Rotation Z = -6.02046

Also change the focal length to 20

Step 10

Add a Renderer 3D and check on enable lights and enable shadows

Step 11

Add a Transform tool (Tools> Transform> Transform) and change the centre X and Centre Y to 0.8435812813026 and 0.2271221779609 respectively.
Change the size to 0.197583572621
Check the changes made by placing the original footloose image into the Background of this output.

Step 12

After finalizing the position and angle of the text, make a Render by placing a Saver tool to the flow in front of the Transform Tool

Step 13

Now import the newly created 3D text image into Photoshop and place it over the footloose poster.

Step 14

Change its layer style to
Drop shadow:
Blend mode: Multiply, opacity: 75%, angle 139 degrees.
Distance, spread and size to 5, 0 and 5 respectively.

Outer Glow:
Blend Mode: Screen opacity: 27%
Color: d7b8ff
Spread and size to 0 and 250 respectively.

Step 15

Add a text layer with text ‘in’ and font Arial, bold and size 100
Change the layer style to
Drop Shadow:
Blend Mode: Screen, colour: c093ff
Angle: 139 degrees
Distance, spread and size to 17,0 and 2 respectively.

Bevel and emboss:
Style: inner bevel
Technique: smooth and depth 42 degrees.
Size: 13 and Soften: 3
Highlight mode opacity: 54
Shadow mode opacity: 40

Step 16

Add an adjustment layer Hue/ Saturation below the in layer and mask 3D text layer by selecting the 3D text layer and painting the mask inverted to black
Change the Hue, Saturation and Lightness to -6, 27 and 7

Step 17

Add another adjustment layer curves on top of all and change the curve to an S shape curve so that the contrast of the image increases.

Step 18

Merge all the layers and add sharpen(Filters> Sharpen> Sharpen) on the image

Step 19

Duplicate this layer and rename the layers as right and left
Reduce the opacity of the top layer to 50%
Move it 3 pixels right and 3 pixels down and rotate it around 1 degree clockwise to get a blurry image.

Step 20

Bring the opacity of the top layer back to 100
Go to Image> adjustment> Channel Mixer and reduce the red to 0; this will make your image cyan

Step 21

Now Hide the top layer and select the bottom layer
Go to Image> adjustment> Channel Mixer and change the output channel to Blue and reduce the blue to 0
Now change the output channel to green and reduce the green to 0
Doing this will make your image red.

Step 22

Now go back to the top layer and unhide this layer.
Change the blending mode to screen.

Step 23

Just crop the image to remove the side cuttings and now you are ready with a 3d poster.

Final Result

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