Premium Tutorial: 3D Golden Text Effect

By Andrei Marius Posted on July 23rd, 2010

golden text effect

Learn how to create an 3d golden text effect in this premium tutorial. See how to create text using 3D extrude and the techniques to clean up the broken shapes. The final steps will teach you how to create glows and highlights for the 3D text. This will be a great tutorial for beginners to create professional 3D text effects in illustrator!

Difficulty: Basic-Intermediate tutorial
Requirements: Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3 and CS4

What will you get?

Instant download of PDF e-book (30 steps)
Detailed step by step tutorial
Learn to create 3D text effect
Comes with Ai file for easy reference

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About The Author: Andrei

I'm the owner and administrator of VforVectors.com. My own website dedicated to Adobe Illustrator where I use to publish my own tutorials every week.

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Ilie Ciorba July 24th, 2010

Good work Andrei, the text looks amazing!

serban July 27th, 2010

looks good. the “R” has a strange effect lol

michael August 4th, 2010

You have a problem with the tutorial download. Non-members can download it too. send me a mail and I’ll explain to you.

Tony Soh August 4th, 2010

I have fixed the bug already.

michael August 5th, 2010

Are you sure? I can still download some of the premium tutorial while being a non-member.