How to Create the Illusion of Realistic Slanted Text with Shadows and Lighting Effects | Corel Photo Paint

Editing tools open up a gigantic world of visual possibilities, allowing you to create millions of things that might cross your mind, so let's explain how create the illusion of realistic slanted text.

The tools of lighting and shadow Corel Photo Paint will be the primary tools to use to achieve this great effect.

In Corel photo Paint you can edit photos, images and even text, the program has many effects that you can add to the text you want; If you want to try you should review the Glitch effects for the text, the paint damp effect or the text folding or folding effect




How to get the illusion of realistic slanted text with Corel Photo Paint?

To get this effect you should know that we will cover three layers of work, in each one you will get a part of the effect so that it can be appreciated correctly.

Create the text

In this, you have to work with the image you will be using for give color or texture to the text, place this texture where you will place the text that will be skewed.

Now write the text in a layer, place it on the texture, you need to place the cursor on the text layer and right click, select " Create mask from object ". Go to the texture layer and right click, select " Cut out by mask ".

Now hide the text layer and you will have your new text with the texture you have selected, now you have to apply a bevel effect, you will find it in the " Effects " > " 3D effects " > " Bevel effect ".




Modify the chamfer, we recommend the values ​​" Chamfer 10 "," Width and Height 50 ", In the tab" Lighting ", Carries the values ​​of" Environment " is " Brightness ” a 100.

Now, access the lighting effects via " Effects " > " Camera " > " Effects of light ”And apply a preset, we recommend“ Texturize Light (top left) ”.

How to Create the Illusion of Realistic Slanted Text with Shadows and Lighting Effects | Corel Photo Paint

 

Change the light source and opacity to make the text see better and remove the mask you created, now proceed with the background.

The bottom

Create a layer with the image that you will use as background and copy it, the copy layer place it on top of the text and with the tool " Ombre "Apply" Object transparency ”And configure it from the center outwards.

Look for that the lower part of the text is slightly blended with the background, in such a way that it appears as if it were buried.

Generates the tilt effect

Position yourself on the text layer and create a shadow from the bottom up, generating the skewed perspective. Preferably use a dark color, such as black, so that the effect is better perceived.

Set the edge fade to " Gaussian blur ”To help give the light effect and increase the fade which you can set between 40 and 50.


Time changes the inclination to 90 ° and lower the height of the shadow so that it simulates the slant you want to give the text.



advice

This effect is perhaps a bit difficult to generate, so we invite you to practice it several times and with different backgrounds and text types.



In this way you can improve your performance in creating it, facilitating its use in your projects, you can create the inclination you want and learn new ways of displaying text.

We also recommend using the key " Ctrl ”To move or enlarge the objects, thus avoiding to modify any other measure.


How to Create the Illusion of Realistic Slanted Text with Shadows and Lighting Effects | Corel Photo Paint

 

If you want to recreate this effect, you can use other tools and create your own ways to do it, or add more steps to make it more realistic.

We recommend that you try to evolve creation, start with something easy and increase the details, so you will become a great editor.

Finally, we hope you will be able to create the illusion of realistic slanted text with Corel Photo Paint. This tool that every day is better positioned among the semi-professional editing programs.

If you want something more innovative with your texts, you should know that you can also create animated GIFs of moving glitter text.

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