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This Photoshop tutorial will walk you through the process of creating some pretty cool 3d boxes. The purpose of these boxes is to highlight important information so it will stand out, literally, on the page. Come check out how we did it and download the PSD file!

This tutorial will show you how to quickly create a 3d box effect in Photoshop. The purpose behind this effect is to make your important one-liners stick out on the page, something that will make people want your product or service. It’s an easy tutorial, but if done correctly, it creates a dramatic effect.

Final Product:

Now that you see what we’re making, Let’s get started.

Step One:

As always, create a new document sized 500×500 (or if you’re making a template, create a new size based on your template). Fill the background with #141317 .

Step Two:

Let’s create the boxes now. Select the Marquee Tool (M) and create a new selection sized 192×79 px . Go to Layer > New Layer (Shift + Ctrl + n) and fill the new layer selection with # 36a4cd . Now you’ve got a basic rectangle shape. We’re going to give it some perspective now. Create a new rectangle layer sized 12×79 px and fill it with the same color # 36a4cd . With your new rectangle layer selected, go to Edit > Transform > Perspective and shift the rectangle up to give it a slight 3d effect. You’ll have something like:

Keep playing with the Perspective setting until you get a depth you’re satisfied with. Do not worry about the styling, we’ll tackle that in the next step.

Step Three:

Now we’re going to Dodge and Burn the box to give it some depth. Select the Dodge Tool (The - it looks like a spoon) and use these settings:

Dodge the upper right corner of your box, do not make it too bright but just enough to give it a nice effect.

Select the Burn Tool (The - the hand) and use these settings:

Burn the left side of your little rectangle, the one you used Perspectives Wednesday Make it rather dark and fade to a lighter shadow as you get closer to the big rectangle. On the very edge of your little rectangle, where it meets the big rectangle, burn a single line up the side to show where the corner of the box is.

Now we have:

Step Four:

We’re going to add the text in this step. Use the color # 2E2F34 and type whatever you want in the box. Apply these styles to the text:

Here’s what mine looks like:

Voila! All you need to do now is duplicate the first box and flip everything horizontally (Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal ) and you’ll have two boxes.

We added some other stuff just to spruce it up a little bit. These boxes will look great when used inside of a layout. Do not forget to download the PSD file!

Thanks for reading!