This tutorial enables you to create a 3D logo from a 2D logo, then allows you to create a stack of the new 3D logos.
I’m going to be taking the Food and Drug Administration logo and turn it 3d, then stack it up. Like a stack of … logos.
Make sure that your logo has no white surrounding it on its layer, or has an entirely transparent background.
Our first step is to use the perspective and skew tools to get the logo in a more interesting angle for 3d-ation. To access perspective, do free transform (Ctrl + T) and right click on the image and choose perspective. The same for skew. I just wanted to make the angle a little more stackable.
Now, select all the pixels in the layer (Ctrl + Click on the thumbnail in the layers window). Choose Select, Modify –> Expand –> 3px. Make a new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N).
Put this new layer behind your logo layer, and choose a foreground color different from that of your logo. Fill the selection (Alt + Backspace).
Now, with the new layer selected and the Move Tool (V) in hand, hold the Alt key and use the arrow key on your keyboard. Tap the down arrow key about 20 times while holding Alt. VOILA! Wannabe-3d. I’d organize the layers and just merge those 20-something layer copies (Select them all using shift, then Ctrl + E).
Now to make a stack. Select all layers (except background, if you have one), right click them and choose Duplicate layers. With these new layers selected, hold shift and use the Move Tool to move them directly above the older layer. Continue until you have a high enough stack for your stackalicious stacking desires. Of stacking, of course.
