5 Replies Latest reply: Nov 3, 2012 8:52 AM by conroy RSS

    Type looks jagged after 3D extrusion?

    monmart Community Member

      I'm working on a logo and I extruded some type. The curving of the font is not correct. Looks squared off a bit. The font is Trajan Pro

       

      Is this because the type is too small? I pasted the logo from Illustrator and converted it to a smart object. Maybe there is somthing I'm doing wrong.

       

      Please see attachment.

       

      jagged.jpg

        • 1. Re: Type looks jagged after 3D extrusion?
          Noel Carboni Community Member

          I've seen that as well.  I'm guessing the conversion to mesh just has its limitations.  In the case I saw I found using a higher number of pixels for the image helped some, but then there was a new bug where some kind of "cupping" or "scalloping" showed up on what should have been smooth edges.  I think that latter issue may have already been fixed in 13.0.1 though.

           

          -Noel

          • 2. Re: Type looks jagged after 3D extrusion?
            conroy Community Member

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            Your image shows an extrusion (with bevel) of a rasterization, not an extrusion of font vectors.

             

            A Photoshop extrusion of a Smart Object is based on the raster representation of the Smart Object. It's like extruding the ugly buckled Path which Photoshop can create from a Selection.

             

            You can get correctly shaped extruded lettering by extruding one of the following which are not inside a SO:

             

            Photoshop Type layer.

            Photoshop Shape layer that's created from Photoshop Type.

            Photoshop Shape layer that's created by pasting paths that Illustrator has created from Type.

            • 3. Re: Type looks jagged after 3D extrusion?
              monmart Community Member

              Thanks.

               

              I fixed the problem by outlining the type in Illustrator first BEFORE pasting it into Photoshop and converting it to a smart object.

              • 4. Re: Type looks jagged after 3D extrusion?
                conroy Community Member

                You get better results by avoiding the Smart Object, though. My last option above uses Illustrator type-to-outline function, but when you paste into Photoshop, paste as Shape and do not use a Smart Object at all.

                • 5. Re: Type looks jagged after 3D extrusion?
                  conroy Community Member

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                  Example of difference between extruded SO and extruded Shape. The SO and Shape look equal, but the extruded Shape is smoother and more faithful to the original vectors.

                   

                  SO.png

                   

                  Shape.png

                   

                  SO-extruded.png

                   

                  Shape-extruded.png