This Photoshop tutorial covers how to make a 3d cube in Adobe Photoshop. It uses several Photoshop features – Gradients, Free Transform, Levels and Layers.
This Photoshop tutorial covers how
to make a 3d cube in Adobe Photoshop. It uses several Photoshop features – Gradients,
Free Transform, Levels and Layers.
Step 1Start with a square. Here I made a new document 300X300, created a new |
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Step 2Press Crtl/Cmd+T to enter free-transform mode. Right click/Cmd click… when the dropdown menu appears, select SKEW Click on the right middle square and drag up until you get your desired |
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Step 3Duplicate the layer |
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Step 4Enter free transform again (Ctrl/Cmd+t) Right click and this time select Drag out the copy to the left. Hold down the shift key to keep the baselines You may also want to make this side a bit thinner by clicking the left |
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Step 5Create a new layer and make another square and fill it with the same |
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Step 6This time while in the free transform mode… when you right click/Cmd drag each corner until you get a good match. Be sure the corners fit |
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Step 7Finally select the top of the cube. Image>adjust>LEVELS slide the middle triangle over to the right |
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Step 8Ta-da A complete cube. Don’t limit yourself to just cubes. You can use |
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