Add a touch of vintage Broadway style to your designs by creating a stunning marquee bulb sign effect in Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial guides you through using Photoshop's 3D features, real textures, and bulb photographs to achieve realistic depth and illumination.
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Practical Tips for Creating Your Marquee Sign
Achieve a professional-looking vintage marquee sign by following these key steps:
- Process each letter individually in 3D to simplify bulb placement, avoiding perspective distortions that complicate later steps.
- Configure the 3D extrusion with a zero depth, a 10% bevel width, and an 85-degree cap angle for the characteristic sign shape.
- Resolve rendering glitches by slightly increasing the 3D extrusion depth, then resetting the cap angle to 85 degrees, and re-rendering.
- Use the ALT key to quickly duplicate bulb layers, and Shift for linear alignment, then apply the Distribute Vertical Centres tool for even spacing.
- Add a warm illuminating glow by creating a new layer, dabbing an orangy-yellow color over each bulb with a soft brush, and setting the blend mode to Overlay.
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