DOF Typography

DOF Typography, what the hell is that exactly? Well I needed one day to make the text from a header page someway different, sadly color, position, angle and all other stuff didn’t quite get the main idea of different. Then I thought to make it look like the letters were put there by hand and look like they were hanging, some sort of smooth 3D effect.

Well the idea is not new I’m sure of that, but the solution to do it in Photoshop is quite easy peasy and no super cool plugins or 1000 layers are necessary (feel free to search for other solutions over the net, but this is how I did it so stick around to see my version).

The Desired Effect – Magnified

So, the desired effect in the end should look like the one in the example above, you can see that some letters are in front of the others and the light casted drops a shadow just enough to make them look like they are hanging there without a pin (some sort of a 3D effect)

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