Recreation of a Bevel Effect

[Kkh5C73]

There is this bevel effect on a logo for a game that i used to play and i'm trying to remake it. I have a couple of problems i need to tackle so i'll start off with this one

This is the logo. As you can see there is a whole bunch of beveling around the outside of the letters along with the stroke behind them. How would i remake this in photoshop, preferrably with the smoothness of the original.

 Another image for reference

[Trevor.Dennis]

It's all about the layer order

The dark grey rear most shape is solid as the bevel only shows on its outside.

The the blue and white shapes are identical in size, but the white shape is above the blue shape, and the white shape has a stroke and no fill.

The effects are mostly Bevel & Emboss, and the secret is to experiment with the Altitude setting to place the shading where you want it.  If you want a shape to have a lighter bevel, then you have to make the shape slightly darker because a white bevel is not going to show against a fully white shape.

The text also has a drop shadow.  The trick with drop shadow is to use the Size setting to control how soft it is, and then fine tune with opacity and height.  Does that get you started?

[Trevor.Dennis]

A couple of notes:

I used the Talk bubbles to create my shape, but I can't remember where they came from.  Anyone know where they are?

I made the background shape, copied it, and used Free Transform to make it smaller which leads to the offsets and unequal spacing.  Illustrator does this better..  

Photoshop's Layer Styles are super useful and very powerful, but a lot of effects are done better with apps like Eye Candy 7.  Eye Candy 7 is probably my most used plugin

[Jeff Arola]

Adobe hid all the previously included Shapes like the Talk Bubbles, before the Preset panels redesign, under Legacy Shapes and More accessible from the Window>Shapes flyout menu.

[Kkh5C73]

At the top of the letter you can clearly see there is a whole bunch of lines due to the bevel effect. Usually you could soften the bevel to solve this problem, but that doesnt work for the style i'm going for.

 you can see the bevel here, and it has a sorta smoothness to it. i'm trying to recreate this. Any tips?

[Jeff Arola]

What settings are you using under Bevel & Emboss?

[Kkh5C73]

I want to recreate the 3d effect pictured in the image below.

Any ideas? I'm trying to get the details as they are shown

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Hi @Kkh5C73 this can easily be created in Adobe Illustrator with Extrude. However, Photoshop has eneded 3D renderings with PS 22.5 - if you want to create this in Photoshop, you'll need to roll back to that version.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html

[jane-e]

@Kkh5C73 

I've merged your posts from March 28 and April 19 with your original post on March 27. Please respond in this post and stop creating new ones. Thank you.

Jane