June 2012 Tips and Tricks - Using Text as a Shape

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Okay, you might understand at least one thing now: a cylinder in 3D when photographed, shows 1/2 of a label design, or less.

The other thing that I see you're working on is lighting.


Try this: create a circle and then extrude it, and then play with the lighting. You can see in my fake photo that the light source is coming from the front left into the picture.

Try some gradients, blend modes, and pull the piece together using not just this month's tutorial, but past ones I've shown, such as lighting the polyhedron back in January.