Fake It Till You Make It: Creating Convincing 3D Textures in Photoshop Without a 3D App

Fake It Till You Make It: Creating Convincing 3D Textures in Photoshop Without a 3D App

There’s a specific kind of client request that used to send me into a quiet spiral of dread. “Can you make the text look… dimensional? Like it’s actually part of the wall?” Sure, I’d say. Absolutely. Then I’d spend two hours nudging drop shadows around and delivering something that looked like a PowerPoint slide from 2009. The problem wasn’t effort. It was that I was reaching for the wrong tools entirely.