How to Make a 3D Image in Photoshop Without Stereo Pictures

Perspective

• 1). Click the "T" icon from the tool palette to run the "Text" tool, with which you will make a 3D image.
  
  
• 2). Drag on the canvas to grow a text box, then type some text in the box.
  
  
• 3). Click the checkmark icon above the tool palette to finish entering text, then press "Control" and "T" simultaneously to tell the program you want to enter the mode for transforming objects.
  
  
• 4). Right click the text and click "Perspective," then drag one of the top square handles on the top edge of the box surrounding the text toward the opposite square handle. This makes the box's top edge shorter than its bottom, which makes the text appear to converge into the distance. Such convergence is an essential character of linear perspective, which is a type of 3D effect.
  
  
• 5). Press "Enter" to finalize the perspective effect.
  
  

Shadows

• 1). Click the tool palette icon shaped like a shaded circle with a solid line. This runs the tool for drawing circles, from which you will create the appearance of a sphere.
  
  
• 2). Click the highlighted item in the "Layers" window, which represents the circle.
  
  
• 3). Click the "Fx" button at the bottom of the "Layers" window, then click the "Inner shadow" item. This effect makes circles appear like spheres by gradually varying the light-to-dark tones of the circle's color. These variations simulate the lighting appearing on actual spheres.
  
  
• 4). Drag the "Angle" slider until it displays 87 degrees. This sets the position of the sun in relation to the sphere your circle represents. Drag the "Size" slider until it read between 70 and 100. This action determines the size of the inner shadow.
  
  
• 5). Click the "Drop shadow" item from the left pane, then drag the "Distance" slider until it displays 20. This simulates the distance of the sphere from the ground.
  
  
• 6). Click "OK" to finalize the effect's parameters and view your 3D sphere.