This text effect works best on types rendered at fairly large size. The effect traces the outline of each character in the supplied text string to generate an embellishment contour for each character as if the text string has both the outer and inner border.

You can add an image overlay or gradient pattern to the text surface to blend the text to your web page design. The rendered text can be placed on either a plain color or another background pattern. With many combinations of font choices, pattern or gradient overlays, this single effect is very flexible to give your design thousands of unique personalities.

What gives the text its three- dimensional depth appearance is the careful placement of the drop shadow. Here you can choose the drop shadow color, size, and distance from its source object to simulate the location of the light source. The larger the drop shadow size, the blurrier its appearance is.

1. Enter your text to render
(up to 24 characters)


2. Font size   
(default 70 pixels)

3. Typeface: Arial Black


4. Padding   
(default 20 pixels)

5. Drop Shadow
Distance
Size
Angle
Color
6. File type: JPG file PNG file w/ transparency Photoshop PSD file w/ layers JPG format displays transparency as white. Choose the PNG option if you want background transparency. The Photoshop PSD format provides the highest image quality and most flexibility. Image components such as text, shadows, background are placed on separate layers. Click to generate the 3D Outline text with your current choice of parameters. Your requested image is constructed in a separate window. The generated image will be automatically removed from the server after approximately one hour. Right click on the generated image and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As..." to download to your computer.

The following illustration shows a short text string with different image overlay patterns. The 3D outline text effect engine behind this page can produce a text pattern on a plain color background, or plain color text on a background pattern, or both.

However, this effect looks best where the text is placed on a background having a solid color, or where the same pattern is used for the text overlay and its background. Click the eyedropper tool below to choose your appropriate background color.