Render each letter of your text separately. Now let’s generate each letter of your text and save as a PNG file separately. Open Xara 3D and click on the text creation tool in the tools palette and choose your choice of font and type in your text. If you are using the trial version of Xara 3D, beware that a watermark will be placed on any image you export. The grey area is your canvas and workspace.įor those who do not have a copy of Xara 3D full version, I have included the PSD file so you can try your hands at this tutorial. This part of the menu interface is the tools palette that contains the text tool, colour palette, extrusion tool, (this tool is similar to the extrusion tool in Google Sketch Up) Design Option tool (holds all the settings of the tools in the tools palette), Bevel Options tool, Shadow Option, Texture Option (contains pre-installed patterns and textures similar to Photoshop), Animation Option, and finally the Text Button Board.įinally the tools palette options menu – this is the settings menu for all the tools in the tools palette located on the right hand side of the interface. These buttons are used to pre-render the animation before you export it as Flash SWF file or GIF file. Similar to Microsoft Word, this software also allows it’s users to choose the font typeface size and the style as it suits them.Īs I said at the beginning of the tutorial, Xara 3D can also be used to animate the 3D text you create.

It also contains the Style Picker menu for animation of the text. This image contains your basic File Open Save Export buttons found in almost all software. The more you use Xara 3D the more you can explore the software to its full potential. The interface makes it look simple but working with Xara could be very tricky for the first time user. Xara 3D is an application that can transform 2D text into 3D text. For those who are already familiar with the interface, you can skip this part of the tutorial. As a final touch I’ll use the pen tool to draw lines that look like strings attached to the 3D text we are going to create.īefore we begin, let me quickly introduce you to the Xara 3D interface. I’ll share basic Photoshop key shortcuts that really help speed up production. I am going to show you how to create 3D text in Xara 3D and render it in Adobe Photoshop.

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